Several of my friends have been asking their jobs if they can take a pay cut and work remotely. Some of them have been approved and then they started to "take the piss" once they got this opportunity. They were ordered back to the office once their work life suffered by being given freedom.

I think that if people are going to work remotely, they have to be very careful to not allow their performance to go down because even though they are taking, sometimes a 30% pay cut, this doesn't mean the employer is going to be cool with them going out every night and not even "clocking in" until 10am.

It is being offered quite a lot where I live because living in the city is so expensive and a commute takes around 2 hours from the more affordable suburb areas.