Comment Re:In short? (Score 0) 318
In my office "Working from home" is code for "I have more important things to do today, like open the door for the plumber to come fix my leaky faucet" and "I will answer email, in less than 30 minutes, but I don't expect to get anything worthwhile done today" and "Haha I don't have to take a PTO day for this! Genius!!"
Managers who are on multiple conference calls a day and spend most of their day talking and making decisions can actually be somewhat effective working from home, but unless you're doing "headphones on, cranking out brand new prototype code" I don't think working from home is particularly effective. Especially if you are on the maintenance/operations side of things. Those people/that mindset, their productivity is slightly above that of a corpse. At least a company doesn't have to pay for a corpse's health insurance.