I have worked from home quite often, but not as a full time thing. I don't see any problems with it.

I've seen some interesting comments here. Some of them seem very odd.

I've never had a problem of losing concentration or dedication when working at home - but I've sometimes had it when working at work. That's the opposite of what some people seem to have experienced.

The idea that you have to interact with colleagues face to face every day is just plain crazy. I've been a team leader for teams spread over many locations on several continents and since on any day I had to communicate with most people by telephone or email rather than face to face it didn't make a significant difference if on some days I was at home rather than in one of the offices. Customers I had to talk to when they had a serious problem knew my mobile numbers (for a couple of years I was carrying three mobiles, one with a UK sim, one with an Indian sim, and one with a Spanish sim, to keep the cost of outgoing calls and roaming charges down) - what did it matter whether they got me at home or in one of the offices? If a customer needed face to face contact it would need scheduling anyway, since if I was in the office it might not be (and usually wasn't) on the contenent that customer was in - and usually those meetings would be where the customer was not where any of our ofices was (that had also applied when I normally worked in the office rather than at home). Yes, I had enough face to face time with colleagues in the offices; no, working from home wasn't a problem.

I first came across regular working from home long before I started working from home myself; the company I worked for had had, for a long time, a policy of offering female employees who might otherwise just stop work (usually when with first child) the option of working from home (on a reduced hours per week basis if they wanted not to be tied up for too many hours per day). These women turned out to be a great asset for the company, so we knew that working from home worked fine (this was in the early 1970s) and the company started offering an employees who wanted to work from somewhere out in the wilds an arrangement were they had to come in to the office for two or three days four times a year - people could work from virtually inaccessible places like Orkney on that basis (using, in the early 70s, a 2.4kbps link to connect to the computers in the offices for a short time every day they were working - adequate for interactive text and very limited graphics, but nothing like today's internet speeds). In those days I mostly worked in the office, hardly did any work at home, but that was what suited me then.

i find it hard to understand why there is so much emphasis on time in the office in jobs like software engineer or database deeloper or DBA. A significant proportion of work can be done at home and doing it at home would probably improve, not decrease, productivity if only because people won't be wearied every day by a painful commute.