I agree. I as a rule from one particular experience have learned to never take your work home. Home offices just steal your home from you and turn it into the office. I had a studio apartment in los angeles and became the executive assistant and junior publisher to a guy who headed a entertainment public relations company.
Next thing we know he breaks his lease with the office space and were all working from home. I suddenly got the company server in my apartment a multi phone line system. My hours are 8-6 but now im working literally 24 hours a day. I have assholes from TMZ calling at three am for scoops. My boss calling at ten pm asking me to do one more thing that will only take an hour. Eventually the pavlovian association with work transfered to my apartment and i soon learned to hate my apartment too. It was no longer my home. It had been coopted and corrupted. Even though i moved on to new work eventually the apartment never lost that stigma.
Now its a deal breaker if a company wants to call me off hours and or take my work home. Its wage theft. And its just very disrespectful to me. I wont do it anymore.
RE: Take your work home and lose your home to work