Office is really needed for some things, like coders. If all people involved are serious enough (hard to find these days), everyone working remotelly works if you know at what times you HAVE to be working. I work 24 hours a day, so i work from home, plus i'm constantly available, so office is not for me, as if i had to go to office, the minute i left it, i'd turn of the phone and leave the job aside. Since that doesn't work for me, i work from home, but i'm available 24 hours :)

Damn a lot of response to this poll. I spent ten years working in sales for Fortune 500 companies, while I didn't have to go to the office every day, I did have to be there way more than I wanted to.

A lazy employee will steal your time whether he's at an office or at home, I figure at the end of the day you have to look at their production and go by that.

I work out of my home office, but I think an out of home office might benefit me to help separate work/personal time. Then again, it might just be a needless expense.

I like working in an office just cause when you need to talk to the team you can do it in person and share ideas which takes way less time if you had to do it all in writing or phone.

The 2 criteria for my work as a coder is that it has to be quite without distractions and it has to be separate from my personal life. I'd like to get an office that is close by eventually. I think having 2 different environments will allow me to work while I'm at work and relax when I am at home.

I have an office for my offline job, and work from home with adult1 :)

I work from home. As long as it can be avoided, I would never go back to an office job.

my office has a huge fridge, 40" tv with ps3 xbox and n64, hard to get work done around here

I work out of our main office, but we have remote employees.
I'd get way less done if I was working remote or on the road.

I did recruiting in the gaming industry from director on up.

When I'm in Tampa, I'm in Dirty D's War Room with everyone. Otherwise I work remotely from where ever my travels take me to...

advantages of working at home is the ability to work in your pajamas

We have an office and it works well for sharing ideas, but work-at-home is definately on hte list of top ideas....

I have an office in my home that I work from. It is not a bedroom that has been turned into an office but rather an actual office with the set up and everything. I had the house built for me last year and they built an office inside of it as well. I like working there but I do miss getting out because I spend so much time at home being that my office is located there. I have thought about renting a place to work from but I just don't see any reason to do that being that I already have a place to work. Besides, it really doesn't matter if you are working from a garage, a bedroom, an office or a remote location. As long as you get the work done that needs to get done, that's all that really matters.

BS, some of them work in their living rooms. :1orglaugh

An office is the only way to work it if you have real staff.