This essay seems to be making the blogging rounds.

The market itself has forced companies to be as competitive as they can be, and the same technology and systems that allow US companies to outsource to India can also be used to let you work in your pajamas from your ancestral home in Mt. Airy North Carolina instead of the inner city hell you once had to settle for because thats where the work was. I say this with total command of my faculties that fully 25% of the US workforce could start working remotely within 90 days.

Speaking as someone else who commutes about ten feet, I think Varifrank misses a few points:

1. Maybe it’s true that “workplaces” are due to inertia, but that doesn’t change the fact that inertia is the third most powerful human drive.
2. There are some bosses who want to have their employees in person because he doesn’t trust them, or his own ability to manage them, if they’re home in their bathrobes.
3. There are some employees who don’t trust their own ability to get anything accomplished without a boss literally over their shoulder. In my book, I called them the “untrepreneurs”—they get all they need from their dream of working from home by dreaming it, not living it.