The benefits of being at home are: familiar surroundings, privacy, comfort and the choice of being alone or having friends and family around.
Elsewhere, we meet Justin, a young man who came to New York out of college and moved in with friends after he found that living alone made it hard to meet people.
If a CEO can hear staffers' every cough, let alone their birthday calls from friends, all parties are less inclined to engage in unprofessional behavior.
Business quickly grew to a point where they could no longer make everything alone, so they hired friends skilled in carpentry and ceramics to help out.
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Gupta was not alone when he had an ethical lapse among friends.
Jack had not taken part in an organised swimming session on the day he died but when his friends left the pool complex, he apparently got changed alone in the unlocked changing rooms or climbed through a hole in the fence before entering the water.
Even though much of his neighborhood remains empty, Green said he never feels alone because of the steady stream of family, friends and tourists who stop to talk to him inside his FEMA trailer.
The family isn't rallying alone -- hundreds have joined the movement, from friends to Valdosta residents who barely knew or never met Kendrick.
Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying).
Here, 11, 000 km from Seoul, alone and impressionable, Ko began to drift away from his old friends and to take up with a racier crowd.
You're not alone if you can't stand the regular requests from Facebook friends to hide a cache of weapons or to hold hot merchandise for them in Mafia Wars.
In-person meetings can also help teams avoid misunderstandings: As one of our friends who runs a virtual workplace puts it, with e-mail exchanges alone, everyone starts to get a bit paranoid.
It is difficult enough to decode "OMG" (Oh my God) "BFF" (best friends forever) and "GTG" (got to go), let alone understand why it's funny to call something a "fail" (but not a "failure").
In each of these stories there was a certainty of knowing right from wrong when they were alone, but somehow their judgement became clouded when they were in the company of friends and they did not speak up to the wrong they knew they were doing.
Trust in others leads to a solid network of work colleagues and friends, which, in turn, provides more resources to carry out projects than if they were managed alone.
But if most of these men and women waited for their friends to fix them up or for someone to approach them on the street, they'd most likely be alone forever.
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