I could work whenever I felt productive, if I had a headache I could take medicine and lay in bed for 30 minutes to make it go away, I didn’t have to dress myself for work, etc. I also experienced a lot of freedom.

My productivity was very high.

But.. after a few years, I started to hate it. Why?

- Little social interaction with associates and colleagues except by phone and e-mail.

- Getting up, dressing and going to work puts me in a work mindstate. You go to work and see everybody arround working, so you get into a work-related mindstate.

- Communication problems. Turns out that phone and e-mail are really worse than face-to-face communication.

After a few years of working at home my productivity went down.

So in my opinion working from home is great in the first 1-2 years. After that you discover it’s not so great.

Or, it is great if you can work from home 2-3 days a week, and work on the company premises the other days of the week.

I am now planning to get an office and having myself, my associate and my 2 employees work at the office.

I have talked to them and asked them if they want to keep working from their homes or if they want to work at the office. They all said that they prefer to work from an office.

They also confirmed my experience: in the beginning, working from home was GREAT. After a few years, it didn’t seem so great any more.