when I worked for a telecom company on the internal help desk, I worked for four years from home. WHen I started working from home, they did a survey and asked the 30 of us what we thought would be the pros and cons of working at home (No pants!) and I couldn't think of any cons. After 3 years those of us still on the WAH program took another survey, and I listed "an overwhelming sense of isolation" as one of the cons. There were weeks where I wouldn't leave the house unless my wife was like "dude, you look like a hobo". Working at home seems like it would be awesome, but it's not. There's a lot of drawbacks, and isolation is probably the biggest one. Isolation is the biggest drawback. I am not 100% social at my workplace due to my job being extremely demanding of my time especially when there are back to back meetings from when I get in to about 11am. When I do have some free time to stretch my legs and talk with the people around me it is a nice break in the day. Plus I prefer working at the office as I normally go to the bar across the street for lunch and have a beer or two. That allows me to relax and distress before coming back to work it also allows me to catch up on sports and news for the day or send out some text messages or phone calls.