I shared an office with a guy whose first assignment at our company was to do some calculations for a pretty famous senior scientist. The senior scientist gave him use of a company HP-41C calculator, a highly prized asset and the formula he wanted used to make the calculations. The new employee (an MIT graduate) realized he could do the calculations more quickly and easily by logging in to a mainframe on a teletype and writing a BASIC program. So he did. He knocked off the calculations in less than hour, went home, took a nap, and came back in time to hand in his completed assignment.
The signal start of a mediocre career. The good old 41C, RPN, anyone?
Working from home is a goldbrick’s dream.
I work harder from home than I ever did in an office.