At all companies I have worked for, teams sit together and talk directly. And Meeting rooms are full of people talking face to face. There are also international meetings, but that one are two or three meeting rooms with a team in each one, not people sitting individually.
You may like to work from home or not, but this opinion piece is based in the authors personal experience, and it is at least different from mine in all companies I worked for.
> Companies currently renting office space are just throwing money away if all of their employees are still doing the same thing at home that they were doing at work.
I agree with this sentence, and if your company is doing this you should work from home if you want. I just do not think that it applies so widely as the article suggests.