Mike Anderson, Technology Manager and Web Applications Project Manager for HOK Advance Strategies, chronicles his typical day working from home:

I am definitely more productive than when I worked in the office. My work time is more focused; I can work when I’m a little under the weather; and my time off is not spent in traffic. If I have a break between tasks, I can use that time personally and then go back “on the clock” when I’m needed. How much time do employers lose when their staff is waiting for the next task, or trying to fill their down time?

So what’s the downside?

My wife’s only real complaint is my nine hour work day has now turned into a 15 hour work blur. I fade in and out of work so easily no one in my family knows when and if I’m available. It’s very difficult to “leave work at the office” since the office is also my home.

Penelope Trunk points out the risks in blurring the boundary of work:

People who work longer than the typical eight hours a day start to lose their effectiveness quickly. “If you work all the time, you lose your edge,” warns Diane Fassel, CEO of workplace survey firm Newmeasures and author of Working Ourselves to Death. “Often these people are perfectionists, controlling and not good team players. The hardest workers are “not the best producers in terms of efficiency and creativity.”