ZDNet, I'm a long-time work-at-homer. I've worked at home for almost two decades, and on-and-off in the years before that. Over the years, we've tweaked and refined our working at home environment, learning what works and what doesn't. My wife, who also works at home, and I both have our own separate offices, where we can go for meetings, conferences, and focused concentration time. Also:
But we have a little dog who yaps loud enough to wake the dead when we leave him alone in the living room for any appreciable time. We also have a low-cost TCL big screen Roku TV. In addition to streaming period British costume dramas (the dog prefers them over loud science fiction), we've turned our living room into a shared office space and conference room.