I worked in mostly from home as a contractor (my own company) for Ford, IBM, and Silicon Graphics in the early 90's using a 9600 bps modem(!), then co-founded a web company in '98 and worked from home for 7 years, then retired early. We used 128K bps ISDN connections in the early years, and it was fine. Got a ton of stuff done from home. So anyone who thinks it can't work now, with the kinds of Internet speeds available, just doesn't want it to work.

I never understood how people could handle long commutes, plus all the wasted time and money for work clothes, to sit in front of a computer in a building instead of home.