Since home workplaces are located outside of the respective organisation, employees are mainly on their own in this environment. Insufficient rules for the home workplace environment may result in IT problems and increased downtime. If IT problems cannot be solved through remote administration, an IT support technician may need to travel to the home workplace in question in order to solve them. If the handling of internal and confidential information at home workplaces is not regulated in a transparent manner, employees may store the information incorrectly. If it is not possible to prevent espionage and unauthorised modifications involving such information, its confidentiality and integrity may be compromised.