Silicon.com is conducting a home working experiment tomorrow with the whole editorial team working from home for a day.

Amongst most technology companies I encounter homeworking seems to be standard practice now. Employers have realised that people are more productive when not in the office being interrupted all the time and are more than happy to invest in Blackberry’s etc.

While at Skype, our whole global PR team worked from homes dotted around the UK and US. We used Skype for free calls to one another, multi-person conferences/instant messaging and a Wiki to access documents/share information via any Web connection. I have to say the whole company walked the walk.

I was talking to employees at Civica the other day and they can work from home when they want or just bob into their nearest office if they fancy a change of scenery. I think this is important as you can get a bit of cabin fever if you work from home all the time.

The other important thing is to be disciplined in your work hours so that it doesn’t eat into your home life - which can be difficult if you have colleagues in different time zones! Anyone tips for homeworkers? Or views from your office (as above)?

A report from The Future Labratory claims we are more happy because we are blending our work and home lives using new technology.

Commenting on the survey, The Independent implies that as a result of working-life blending we are happier with “almost half of us (46.8 per cent, to be exact) throwing off the chains that bind us to our desks and taking jobs that involve working away from the office, on our own terms”.

Sorry but mobile technology for work just means working longer/harder, no matter how you dress it up. I’m comparing the number of laptops on trains today with how many people you would you see consciously scribbling work notes before mobile computing? The survey points out 77 per cent of people felt new technology had improved productivity.

For me, technology can certainly help us work smarter. Guess it depends what you are doing but does working longer or harder make people happy?