The Ugly Truth About Working At Home

The Huffington Post:

In the future, thanks to advances in personal computing and Internet connectivity, more and more people will be working at home.

While there are some obvious benefits to this arrangement, such as gasoline cost savings and the ability to devote more of the workweek to bidding on Battlestar Gallactica memorabilia, there is a dark side as well: working at home greatly reduces the opportunities for office romance.

Gone are the liquor-fueled holiday parties and the team-building retreats that have traditionally served as the tinderboxes for employee-on-employee passion.

Gone, too, are the monthly budget meetings, where passed notes and stolen glances often lead to more — so much more.

Lonely and isolated, the home-based employee will start looking for love in all the wrong places. And therein lies the ugly truth of working at home: when you’re your own boss, you have no one to sexually harass but yourself.

via Rich on the main site.