Do you currently work from home or an office ??
 

Been working from home for many years now and it still has it's advantages and disadvantages.

What's your current working situation ??

Work from home and you are right. There are definitely goods and bads. I miss the human interaction but I don't miss office politics.

Everyone at my company all work from their homes (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver). It's cheap and comfortable for sure but home life can be distracting sometimes. Then again I get to work late without being yelled at, play with my kitties, and crank the Heavy Metal to 11.

:2 cents::2 cents::2 cents: What he ^^ said.

Only disadvantage to work from home is interaction to outside public and humans.

It is so much cheaper that it is harder then heck to justify an office.

home, and yep as stated, lack of human interaction is a cunt. The rest of it though, as a 1 man band, I wouldn't change a thing.

office.. did the home thing for a few years, sucks

Currently sober ...

There are no disadvantages to working from home except those that a person creates for themselves.

Unless of course, you wife is also working from home :1orglaugh

True i suppose. I get too easily distracted sometimes. And i also sleep more than i should. But yeah you're right, it's down to me to make sure those things don't happen.

I'll start from next week... :1orglaugh

If you have a family, or friends that come by there are many disadvantages to working from home. It's much more productive to be at an office where the only reason your there is to work.

You're the one that got married. :-)

Work from home. I think I'm going to start going into the office soon. Having a 16 month old at home who is learning to bang on my office door is becoming distracting.

Weird ...
I have opposite problem .... No personal time anymore and joust too much work.
Havent enjoyed a whole TV show in months ....

I work from home.

The worst part of it is throwing a roast in the crockpot and then having to smell it all day.

2nd would be, people who stop by to say "hi" because they think working from home means I really don't work. Something I did to fix that was, when someone stops by I just put my phone up to my ear and mouth "im on a conference call, call you later"

Biggest pros would be no commute which means more money and time. Although after lunch every day I do run out to the local Starbucks for coffee. On Fridays I try and hit the cigar or bait shop and go shoot the shit with them.

Always a smart one.

Everyone has time, you make it.

I work out of our Sunnyvale office.

I really enjoy the group I work with in office, just not the drive :P

I get up in the morning and take my girl to work 2 miles away, stop somewhere and get a healthy breakfast and a cup of coffee and go home and work. When I pick her up, we usually go visit friend, stop at a local watering hole or just get out. I enjoy this step up a lot!

After 16 years of working from home i got fed up. Moved into a nice big office in the best part of town over a year ago.

I rent it with 13 other entrepreneurs for asmall fee to keep squatters out. Love it, never going back to work from home.

Other plusside: this week the energy company deposited 20% of last year's paid fee back, now that i work elsewehre, it saved pcs running 24/7/365;-)

Home. Love it. I'm single. No hassles.
{Other than some crazy chicks I shoot, but that's par for the course...}

Interesting nobody mentioned the most important thing - you (maybe exceptions, but definitely absolute majority) are way more productive working in office. So much more that you can justify office rent cost and transportation.

Try it and you will see. Plus you would have more comfortable life as home would be the space were you rest only.

My BIG 2 cents.

8 hours at office, and rest at home :)

i work from home most days.

:2 cents::2 cents::2 cents:

I tried the office thing for a couple of years, but it just wasn't for me. The home office is what I prefer (especially now since my wife doesn't run her business out of the home anymore).

Yeah you right, got to work on that and stop been such a workwhore !!!

I work from home. Takes some serious discipline but I love it. I work full time for an ad agency and then run affiliate campaigns too.

Office, nice to get out of the house.

I used to be in an office from 1998 to 2006.

Then I built an office under my home that I worked in from the end of 2006 to 2008.

Then I moved to my "McMansion" in Vegas.
I now have a "casita" right by my pool and spa in the backyard.

It's a total stand-alone building with a kitchen and bathroom with shower.
So I turned that into my office. :)

So I get the best of both worlds.
When I go to the "Office", I simply walk out the back door, stroll down the sidewalk by my pool, toss the ball to my dog, unlock the door to the Casita and I'm there. :)

After years slaving in an office I work from home now and I'll never go back. I haven't had the flu in almost a year now, when I was working in an office it was germ warfare.

I work from home :thumbsup

I do both, have 2 offices, depends what part of town I'm in and work from home after, specially during the middle of the night, when I get in touch with our European clients/friends:thumbsup

Same here.

I prefer office. It's nice to put different clothes on, drive , change the view. I'm much more productive in my office than home.

When i was working from my home everyone thought i was doing nothing . Plus, i can skip some housework by using the office excuse :)

I never have the flu and been doing the office thing for 9 years now.

Knocking wood.

yea.. doh!

Well, I'm SURE you know where I sit all day :upsidedow

It looks like you are comparing working for somebody with being your own boss.
This thread is only about location where you would do the same things. So as if you would rent an office and do the same things you do from home there...
Not about being employed VS being own boss..