Working from home can be a terrific way to lessen our environmental impact, but consumer internet products and commercial communication products both have to become more affordable and streamlined before working at home can be seen as the norm.
Consumer internet is not often available at adequate speeds (100-1000 mbps) and latencies (less than 30ms ping) in most housing areas, in order to allow fast, seamless work from home. This type of internet is often only available to consumers who already live in high cost of living areas, and is often priced at the top of the range for high income earners, making working from home for lower income earners completely infeasible. The practice of capping consumer internet to a maximum amount of data per month also presents a severe roadblock to users who must upload, download, and host video conferences while working from home.
The most fundamental roadblock is the infrastructure of US internet itself. Without strong internet neutrality laws that explicitly require all traffic to be treated equally, employees may end up footing an unreasonable bill for working from home, simply because their internet service provider will have the option to throttle (or artificially slow down) their work-related traffic, unless the employee or company pays for faster internet.