No, it is not just about getting work done. It is also about accessibility, face time, not being prone to procrastination and laziness, distractions from a variety of different sources at home, managability, working on personal projects instead of working on work, isolation from the rest of the team. Last but not least it is about showing up and being there everyday and just being available. There are many factors that affect this. Steve, with all due respect, you are gone alot because we all read articles that you have published long before many times over in your absense. So, if that works for you, then that's fine for you. But I can tell you from my personal situation if I was having someone fill in for me all the time at my workplace for whatever reasons (away at SQL conferences, vacations, managing a horse ranch, or whatever) I wouldn't last long here at all, even if I had remote access, it wouldn't matter. I can tell you that for sure. it just doesn't work for most practical situations in production IT departments that I have been in over the last 25 years. i showed up at a co-workers house once that had a work at home arrangement and he answered the door in a robe and bare feet with three screaming kids in the background. Not a real conducive working environment IMHO. That explained alot about his quality of work as well. That is one of the real big problems about remote access is it is tough for a company to manage that kind of thing when they don't see it for themselves.:-D