Working from home sounds like a good idea. With soaring gas prices, crowded roads, and the summer construction season in full bloom. So what is the catch?
In order for the company to really save money they need you to work from home all the time. Come into the office only occasionally for meetings. You see they need to eliminate your cube and reduce office space.
Everything an IT professional does at work can be easily done from home. Why not we have workers in China and India. We use net meeting, conference phones, and IM; do you really interact with most of your co-workers on a daily basis. I mean besides the water cooler chatter.
There are personal pluses but there are also minuses. The biggest problem I foresee is how to manage the work assignments. Unless your work is straight foward like coding or production support, management may have a hard time assigning and tracking progress. And what about performance reviews and salary increases. If you are out of sight are you at a disadvantage.
What do you think?