[linsomniac]

As someone who ran a company that spent most of 18 years with all employees working remote: The most important thing to me was that workers had the ability to treat it as a job. During interviews I'd ask where they planned to work, if they had an office, if they had a family and if so what their plan was for having an office at home.

For example, I had one employee that I spent a significant amount of time over nearly a year trying to help with his performance. The situation seemed to be that his stay-at-home wife just wouldn't respect that he was "at work". One of our discussions he said "My office currently doesn't have a door on it, and she's always coming in to ask me questions."

But, of course, just being at an office doesn't mean the job will be treated seriously. Another co-worker would do maybe an hour of work a day, and spend the rest of the time dicking around on the Internet. Actually, I'd say this described the bulk of my co-workers when I was at the phone company...