I have worked from home for two years and it is definitely a life-ruining experience with some upsides; I work longer hours, take calls in the evening, feel gui

I have worked from home for two years and it is definitely a life-ruining experience with some upsides; I work longer hours, take calls in the evening, feel guilty every time I take a toilet break, never have 'cooler-chats' and miss the daily interaction with colleagues where I get to remind them who's boss; also I have to buy my own stationery. Upsides? Working in the nude, answering the front-door to survey people and inviting them in for a long chats about nothing, getting to slope off and write reams of useless code for no good reason. OK, so there's the whole 4 Hour Work Week idea of starting a business but I feel too guilty to do that. Of course most companies are global and so my development team are in Poland and my home office is in England or Switzerland, so I would never get to interact with them in any 'high-performing-team' kind of way; but that's what big companies like to do anyway - split up their workforce, divide and conquer, choose mediocrity over performance. So, if you work for a big dumb organisation, work from home. If you work for a small agile organisation, work from the office. If you work for yourself, give up.