re: Is working from home more beneficial?

As someone who has worked from home for 25 years I can tell you it has a significant impact on your work AND personal life.

Negatives

You take up personal space for work.

You can never, truly leave work.

You wake up and work is there.

You can get sick, but never take a sick day unless you're actually hospitalized.

You are constantly bombarded with annoyances and diversions.
Learning to ignore everything is not easily accomplished.

You will work at night.

You may work in the early AM.

Your privacy is invaded.

Conference calls are generally time wasting crap because of micro managing bullshite or people who are narcissistic and want everyone to listen their awesome report.

IT support isn't someone down the hall anymore. Good luck getting help.

Developing key personal interaction with people that can help your career or to get things done is not possible.

If your spouse doesn't work, or also works from home, you see them too much.

Young children at home at the same time makes you feel guilty that you are there and they don't understand why you're not having fun with them.

Things you would normally do, like work on the house, fish, play golf, etc.. falls to the side because your damn job is at home and you will find yourself being tasked with more and more to do, because you aren't visible to management and they can't physically see what your load is really like, so they give you more to do. *studies have shown this is a fact.

You will have higher utility bills.

Advantages:

No commute to work. Saves wear and tear on your car. Lowers your fuel cost.

No dry cleaning bill.

No need to get up early, shower and dress nice.

You can conference call in your undies.

No having to look at / deal with overweight, cranky old women during the day.

You can go to medical appointments and do other things because you can adjust your work hours.

So, there's good and bad to it.