If you don&#x27;t work from home then clearly you&#x27;ll have a commute; how long&#x2F;expensive&#x2F;stressful&#x2F;environmentally damaging it is obviously depends on a number of factors.  I don&#x27;t work too far from where I live and I use public transport to get there, so I can read and listen to music, which means it&#x27;s not remotely stressful. Working in an office means I can switch off when I leave; when I&#x27;ve worked from home I&#x27;ve got distracted so I feel like I should do more work to make up for it.  People at home see me there and expect me to do non-work things because &quot;it&#x27;ll only take a minute&quot;.<p>I was talking about the `ideas via casual chat` thing, though, which is obviously entirely separate from any discussion about work&#x2F;travel etc.  It&#x27;s different if you&#x27;re remote because talking face to face is a different dynamic to talking over the phone&#x2F;skype&#x2F;irc&#x2F;email etc.  I mean I could sit and drink by myself at home and talk to other people who are also drinking alone at home; perhaps that&#x27;s an environmentally way of relaxing after work; it would reduce drink-driving deaths, wouldn&#x27;t it.  It would also be a horrifically depressing insulating way of living and it&#x27;s not for me.