[phkahler]

>> and I find that it mentally partitions leisure from work

This is very important in my opinion. More employers are offering "flexibility" so employees are tempted to bring laptops home, use the VPN, and generally work outside of work. Even though I have a laptop, I leave it at work when I go home at the end of the day. I do not remotely access email or anything else. If you work at home it makes sense to have a firm boundary between your life and your job. A home office would seem to help with that.