Whether there are a lot of distractions at home depends a lot on where you live and how you arrange your work-at-home environment. In my current apartment, the

Whether there are a lot of distractions at home depends a lot on where you live and how you arrange your work-at-home environment. In my current apartment, there are definitely far fewer distractions, and I can cook myself a healthy lunch in about 15 minutes rather than spending money for crap from the cafeteria. When I work from home I don't work a 16 hour day. I work 8 to 6, in fact I often work more hours, am done earlier, and get more accomplished. I didn't have to waste any time or stress commuting, I got to make myself lunch and spend 30 minutes meditating in peace and quiet, and there was no background noise at all for the whole day. Instead of getting distracted by facebook, email, hacker news, and wikipedia I take a few minutes here and there to do house chores like laundry and sweeping. Those are the sort of long term efficiencies that make working from home so beneficial. The biggest thing I miss about the office, apart from being able to attend meetings when scheduled, is the reliable wired LAN. The VPN is much slower and using the web version if Outlook blows given the volume of email I deal with. Personally, I wouldn't want work from home more than one or two days per week, because being available for random walk-ups and face-to-face interaction with co-workers is an important part of the job. But when I need to tackle a technical problem that requires a lot of reading and a state of "flow" there are huge advantages to working from home.