Working at Home in the WSJ
The WSJ has this funny (and so true) look at some of the downsides of working at home:
“Many people seem to think that jobs that can be done at home aren’t real jobs. Never mind that home-office dwellers are their own cafeteria staff, shipping-and-receiving clerks and janitors. They never get credit for cutting an employer’s costs, or saving commuting time to do more work. Instead, managers believe that if they aren’t there to witness someone working, it can’t be happening. They envision homebound workers getting away with something, like lounging in their bathrobes and watching “General Hospital.”"
Of course it depends on what kind of job you have, but most task based jobs that need uninterrupted time can really get done in a proper home office. Of course if the home office is even more interrupt-prone than the cubicle then that’s another story…