Posted On: July 25, 2008, 2:55 pm CDT

Posted By: Brian

Have any of you that side with the court/insurance company/chamber of commerce worked out of your home? I can't imagine you have if you agreed with this ruling. Can you not answer your door when you work from home? Can you not receive work related mail/packages at your home? Mail/packages requiring a signature? How was she to know it wasn't FedEx or UPS at the door delivering office supplies or work related material? For those of you with common sense and agree that a home office employee can answer their door…once the employee answered the door to find it wasn't pertaining to work, was she expected to slam the door in the acquaintance's face? Would you do that to a visitor or acquaintance at your company's office? Hindsight is 20/20 and it's easy to say the employee should not have allowed the attacker into the house, but you can't convince me that the end result wouldn't have been the same. The attacker knew the employee worked alone from home. He had a plan that day to attack her during the course of her workday. The opportunity for an attack arose due to the employee's place of work. At home. By herself.