I work from home. My company was offered the choice of losing my services entirely or letting me work from home. Since I had knowledge they valued and a proven record of getting stuff done, they kept me on.
I treat my work from home as professionally as my office time. If I’m calling in for a meeting, my toddler goes and plays on her own, elsewhere. Just because some people need adult supervision to get their jobs don’t doesn’t make it true for all of us.
I also worked from home for part of the week for about a year. Did so because I shared an office and it gave me some needed privacy. Also realize many sales people work from their homes. I did not mean to apint everyone with the same brush, just meant to poiint out that there are people who abuse the privilege and get lost in the system, just like what happening at Yahoo. Companies need to reign that stuff in.
I’m actually surprised more companies don’t jump on this idea. Office space is not cheap.