I would not want to work at home. I like getting dressed in good clothes and going to the office and being around the people I work with and the clients and others coming into the office. Going out to lunch with co-workers. I mentioned in anorher post after meeting best friends at work.
It seems in jobs I have had interaction with other employees/departments not over skype but in person was necessary to get the job done.
The long commute I can do without. When I was young and first working I had an hour long commute each way for my first two jobs sometimes in terrible weather and at the time I did not mind that. It was just part of the excitement of working downtown in the city.
If I were working full time today as I age for me the perfect thing would be going into the office 3 days and working at home 2 days.
I also know myself and I know I would have a hard time keeping to a workday schedule being at home. I would want to sleep in, work off and on during the day putting in my time all through the day and evening and late into the night. Not like 8 hours straight and would therefore not be available to others workers when needed. I am not very disciplined when left to my own devices I guess.
In one of my most recent part time jobs one my duties was at home using software that was put on my home computer. It had to be done by Thursdays weekly and I had to scramble to met the deadline as I described my at home work habits above. I would put it off a day and do 2 days work in one day, etc. The input from some of my co-workers was not clear and after a frustrating time trying to figure what they meant I had to question them and it would have just been easier to just go directly to them at work and not spend a lot of time trying to decipher what they meant.
The lack of physical movement by working at home is definitely true. At work I was up and down constantly, walking from office to office, up stairs to other departments, up to the copy room and over to the fax machine and so on.