Working from home!

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My company has a new flexibility policy which means I can work from home and no longer need to commute into the city!

I am wondering if anyone has worked from home and what experiences they have had with that?

I guess I won't meet people in the office much any more, and this was one of the very few ways that I met new people, but honestly, I don't really want to continuously meet new people! It was exhausting -- now I can just nourish the handful of relationships that I have and not deal with all that office social political stew.

Anyway I was wondering if anyone had tried this and how it is working out?

Can't you do both? Some days at home, some days at the office? I really think you should push yourself to work at the office.

I haven't tried it. I think I would appreciate being to myself at home in weekends more if I had gone the entire week being around people.

But yeah, I don't have any experience with it, so I can't tell you how it is in practice.

I haven't worked from home for long stretches. My last company allowed me to work from home when my son was sick, or when I needed to work overtime. I liked it, because of the lack of constant work distractions, but, at the same time, there are other distractions. A neighbor sees a car at home and knocks to make conversation or ask for a hand with something.
My husband works from home now and people are constantly asking him to do things because he's at home when they're at work (this week? he's overseeing the road repairs for our subdivision). It can be a real challenge, because he feels he can't say no, especially when it's something like being asked to meet someone's child at the bus stop because they have to work late or get a car repair, etc.
I don't know if you're as friendly with your neighbors as my husband is with ours, obviously, that would be hard to match.
~shrugs~

On the days when I needed to really focus on work, I would tell my boss I wasn't coming into the office, then I'd leave 'for work' at my normal time and go drink coffee at Cracker Barrel until the local library opened up. I'd set up shop in the young adult section (because they were obviously all at school) and work, uninterrupted, for most of the day. It's wonderful! Now that I'm married, my biggest distraction while working at home is my husband (he doesn't follow directions as well as the kids ), but, if you don't have someone distracting you, it is great to work at home.

I do know, for myself, I have to structure my time, telling myself, "I will start at X time and work on Y and will finish at Z time". I can't stand lack of structure.

At my company, people were working from home for a while; however, some people abused the privilege--and it was taken away from us. I only worked from home a couple of times.

i started working so that i could socialise and meet new people
if i have to work from home i wouldnt prefer working
since i prefer whiling away time at home drawing, painting, watching movies
only when there is serious financial hazard i would take up some labour work for survival

I cannot imagine the luxury of this statement. I envy you such economic freedom.
Survival is absolutely at issue and why I work.
I am the provider for five people.

I am allowed to work home full time. I tried it for about 4 months. I found it to be depressing in the long run. I literally didn't leave the house for weeks on end. So now I do two days at home and three in the office. The office is 5 miles away so not a big deal. At least it gets me out of the house.

I can. The state pays me enough money to live on and it comes obligation free. I spend most of it on video games. Lately I've been thinking that getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for free is overrated. It's sort of like it's embarrassing and unmanly to live on a pension. I envy you because at least you have a real job (I have a part time job but that isn't a condition of the unconditional pension). I guess there problems that beset some people so maybe I shouldn't complain.

I have the choise to work from home or to be in the office. I prefer the office because so I am able to have at least some kind of social life. But I am in the convenient situation that I can hide from visitors / new people so they dont bother me.
At home I am never really alone enough to work undisturbed, I prefer the "almost safe" environment of the office where additionally I can have conversations about things.

I went out to exercise this morning and saw a number of people doing the same on my route. We exchanged friendly greetings in passing and went on our way. This was great. That's just about the right level of social interaction. I think it will be fine not going in to the office.

I've loved positions where I could work from home. In offices coworkers would interrupt me constantly, often just go gossip and chat, which I found overwhelming, disorienting, and distracting. Working from a quiet environment at home, I'm much more efficient and productive and work much more quickly. It's also really nice not to deal with commuting and even things like packing a lunch every night. The main downside is fewer socialization opportunities, but after experiencing a lot of workplace bullying I actually prefer making my own social opportunities outside of job hours.