[mokash]

On a practical level, I agree, working from home is better in many ways. However, you can't forget to think about this on a human level. We are social animals after all. You may not agree but I feel that so much human interaction is non-verbal and it is very difficult to replicate this very natural form of communication over video link. Meetings are great but so many great ideas and initiatives (valuable to your employer or not), friendships, romances and what have you arise from informal and off-the-cuff discussions that take place in offices, at the tea point, at lunch, at 4pm when you are mentally dozing off and the guy next to you starts to talk about how he is remodelling his kitchen. You miss all of that by working from home. The sponteneity, the organic and unplanned human interaction that makes life so great. That being said, I do enjoy working from home but I also like being in the office. Perhaps a more hybrid solution is the future, rather than working from home being the exception, or vice versa.

[Apocryphon]

> You may not agree but I feel that so much human interaction is non-verbal and it is very difficult to replicate this very natural form of communication over video link.

Maybe this will be the killer app that VR/AR was waiting for. Not entertainment, but enterprise.

[disgruntledphd2]

I'm hopeful for enterprise VR, but timezones are a harsh mistress.

[tonyedgecombe]

It's interesting that most of the organisations these announcements have been coming from take the opposite approach when it comes to interacting with their customers. It's almost impossible to talk to someone in person unless you are spending millions.