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This article seems to conflate "works less than eight hours a day" with "doesn't get the job done." I would expect somebody who doesn't have the distractions of an office or the pressure to appear busy for eight hours regardless of actual workload might get things done faster.

Also, a lot of telecommuters are either intermittent workers (e.g. freelancers) or part-timers, so it's unsurprising that a significant number don't average many hours a day.

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From my experience, a day of working from home is about as productive as working a week at the office.

It's not as black and white as that for me, but that definitely does happen.

I find working from home 2 out of 5 days to be great for my productivity, while still being very available to colleagues.

Weekend hours without anyone else in the office is generally 2-3x (as measured in a BPM database) as productive for me.

Interesting, I would say depends highly on what you are doing, and how self motivated you are. With certain tasks, I feel a day in the office is as productive as a week from home. I also found it weird that everyone jumped on the efficiency bandwagon. I actually know people who work from home, and there are definitely a sufficient number of them who do very little productive work in a given day (not that it is necessarily different in an office).

As long as you don't have to respond to email, chats, calls or other questions and don't have to talk to anyone at the office.

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