[ericb]

Commuting sucks is enough! Commuting wastes 52 minutes a day, not counting gas station and maintenance trips. It is expensive, dangerous, and uses around 6-7% of your waking hours while polluting the environment.

Past that:

-If you have kids, you often can't easily get them if they have an emergency at school, or appointments

-WFO encourages buts-in-seats management vs. productivity based management

-Background noise

-Interruptions to your workflow that break creative "flow"

-Time spent packing lunch

-Money spent on cafeteria food

Whatever benefits WFO has, it needs to cover commuting costs, loss of life (car accidents), loss of time, loss of concentration, and for the company, the expense of renting and maintaining office space before it can break even in cost-benefit.