Review by Bond James Bond for Rating: This book piqued my citsouiry mainly because I myself have had a full-time telecommuting job for the past three years developing e-commerce software from the comfort of my own house. While I do thoroughly enjoy the 10-second commute times to my home office (especially when it is snowing outside and all the roads are clogged with rush-hour traffic) and every weekday is a bring-your-pet/child-to-work day, there are times when I miss the camaraderie of mingling with co-workers in an office environment (e.g. going out to lunch together and after-work happy hour get-togethers). Of course, if your work experiences have involved disliking your fellow co-workers, telecommuting would distance them more and make communication and having to work with them more tolerable I gave the book 4 stars instead of 5 stars mainly because while over half of the book discusses strategizing the transition to telecommuting and considering some legal aspects of telecommuting (after all, both the author and publisher are in the legal trade), not enough attention and consideration is given to the home office infrastructure in Chapter 3 s Can You Do Your Job At Home? Some of this feasibility analysis is performed in Chapter 4 s Making Your Case , but it is also incomplete. A telecommuter\'s toolbox should also include online conferencing, sending Voice Over IP via IP telephones to the company\'s PBX, using VPNs, remote access to files and company servers, video conferencing, screen sharing tools, collaborative software, as well as heavy use of instant messaging, and possibly taking advantage of Web-based calendar, project planning, and time tracking applications. None of this is discussed. The book also does not consider the various aspects of creating a fault-tolerant home office such as, for example, the increased importance of creating back-up copies of all work-related files residing on your local home computer in case of disk or computer failure, buying a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) in case of a power outage, contingency plans in case of computer hardware failures (do you have a back-up computer or do you have the option to drive into the company\'s office to continue to work), and contingency plans in case of loss of your Internet connection.