i work from home and all the advice here is sensible, and describes how i work (except that you don't need that much upstream bandwidth for google meetup). yet

i work from home and all the advice here is sensible, and describes how i work (except that you don't need that much upstream bandwidth for google meetup). yet, as others have said, there's a bad vibe to this article. i do these things because they make sense for me. maybe they make sense for many others too. but what i expect from an employer is the trust that i will know what works for myself. working from home depends completely on trust. if you need rules like these it sounds like you're either making bad hires, or you have control issues. couldn't you replace them with: "you can work remotely, but it's your responsibility to make it work"? and if you really must, add "here are some things you should probably consider: good bandwidth; remote desktop access; time zones; ..."