I only check work E-mail at home when not waiting until the next morning will actually make an impact on how quickly things get done. We've also recently started working with some people in the Bay Area, so if I send an E-mail at 7PM ET someone's actually around to read it.
For that matter, there are times when my work (like right now) essentially entails running all sorts of Design Automation tools on plain-text files and processing the results like a human Perl script. And I make sure that all that stuff is able to be done on a command line, so sometimes I even do real productive work at home! (There are other times when there's room in my schedule for a long lunch or two during work hours, so I'm not complaining.
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It helps that I recently got a Dell laptop from my employer with all the relevant software pre-installed and with Wi-Fi built in. I use that to work from home. And when it breaks, someone else fixes it!
For that matter, there are times when my work (like right now) essentially entails running all sorts of Design Automation tools on plain-text files and processing the results like a human Perl script. And I make sure that all that stuff is able to be done on a command line, so sometimes I even do real productive work at home! (There are other times when there's room in my schedule for a long lunch or two during work hours, so I'm not complaining.
)It helps that I recently got a Dell laptop from my employer with all the relevant software pre-installed and with Wi-Fi built in. I use that to work from home. And when it breaks, someone else fixes it!