text: I telecommuted from home as a contracted DBA with a Telcom for a while. They didn't really want me in the office, despite having spare desks and Docking ports for my corporate laptop. I was able to persuade them to let me in when my college kids were home at Xmas and summer vacation. Too much going on around the house, so a sparsely occupied open telecom office was quieter. -) 
  
  There was a sudden abrupt workforce adjustment at that telecom a few years before that. People who walked through the downtown office after said that it looked like one of those 1960s SF TV shows or movies where someone finds a deserted town with evidence of people leaving in mid task. Looked like terminated staff were not even allowed to come back after hours, escorted, and clean out their desks and personal effects. Before that the saying was that the telecom was going to install oil showers inside the card control doorways, so that staff could squeeze into their desks.