I used to work from home at a relatively fast paced job (software engineer / trader for a hedge fund) and it really didn't work for me. I needed the face to fac

I used to work from home at a relatively fast paced job (software engineer / trader for a hedge fund) and it really didn't work for me. I needed the face to face communication of an office setting to work at the pace required. I would also be afraid that working from home would disconnect me from things going on at the company and make me seem less essential, more redundant, more likely to be laid off, which DID happen to a person I know who insisted on remote work. I think the remote life works if you are a specialist hired to hammer your personal nail for a company, over and over again without much change to daily requirements, but I think that is a fragile circumstance.