When I work from home I tend to be more productive: I start earlier, finish later, and take more breaks away from the keyboard and screen so my work later in th

When I work from home I tend to be more productive: I start earlier, finish later, and take more breaks away from the keyboard and screen so my work later in the day is better than it would have been otherwise. In my case I save an hour a day commuting, I'm not subject to the bunch of network operations staff in the next aisle who punctuate their day with loud conversations about computer game, politics, pranking and trolling each other. The office I work is in a noisy, crowded environment which is entirely distracting and frustrating to me. The computer I have at home is ideally suited for the work I do (I bought it specifically for the task). The computer I have at work is about six years old, underprovisioned for the work I do. My employer should consider it a perk to have me work from home, and should pay me extra to do so since I'm happy to provide a comfortable work environment with adequate infrastructure for the work I'm doing. I think 10% extra for working from home is a suitable compensation given everything the employer gains. We used to enjoy work from home at the discretion of our immediate supervisors, but due to a falling out between senior management and one of my colleagues who was working from home when one senior manager wanted to drop by their desk to talk about an issue that was being actively discussed on email and HipChat, all staff lost their work from home privileges. Which highlights another benefit of working from home: more of my communication will be via email and other recorded formats, so it is harder to forget what I've communicated to you, and you have to take time to formulate your questions rather than simply walking into my personal space, interrupting whatever I'm working on, and asking a question I already answered yesterday. Allowing work from home indicates that management is competent. Retracting work from home privileges already granted indicates the opposite. No I'm not bitter, why do you ask?