Working from home vs. working home (without from)

Question

When googling, I met the sentence as follows: Working from home requires that you have strict discipline.

And it came upon me that 'home' can be used as adverb like the following 'Webster's Learner's Dictionary'

?home adverb
1 : to or at the place where you live
? She called home to say she would be late for dinner.

So I googled again to see if it's ok to use 'home' instead of 'from home' in the sentence in question.

Alas, there was no sentence coming up when googled in Google books with 'working home requires' as apposed to 110 example sentences with 'working from home requires.'

I can figure out 'working home' is not ok to use, but don't know 'why.'

Can you give me your wisdom?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Working home is not possible.

This are the proper uses of working as an adjective:

She is a working mom. (She is a mom who has a job.)
He's a hard working man. (He's a man who works hard.)

The home cannot work or earn money.

These are possible:
Working at home
Working from home

CalifJim · Answer

Stenka25Can you give me your wisdom?

Ah, wisdom! Now a simple answer is not enough; you students want wisdom, too!

OK. Here's my wisdom. "home" is one of more idiosyncratic adverbs in the English language. Trying to figure out "why" is like knocking your head against a brick wall.

You might want to try some head-knocking of your own. That is, you may want to draw your own conclusions just by examining specific examples. (* indicates 'grammatically incorrect'. ? indicates that opinions may vary.) Note how certain verbs allow 'home', and others don't.

John is home today. (be) (at home)
Karen stays home on Mondays. (stay) (at home)
We remained home all day. (remain) (at home)
?Louise sat home all day. (sit) (at home)
*Lucy slept home all day. ( sleep) (at home)
*Ann is working home today. (work) (at/from home)
*Laura has the same book home. (has) (at home)
*I found this newspaper home. (find) (at home)
*We like to play cards home. (play) (at home)
*George always eats home. (eat) (at home)
*Sara sewed home all day today. (sew) (at home)
?After looking all over town, they finally found us home. (find) (at (our) home)
*The postman delivered the package home. (deliver) (to my home)
The Stevens invited us home. (invite) ((to come) to their home)
Henry leaves home at 7:30 every day. (leave) ((his) home)
*Oscar departs home at 8 every day. (depart) (from home)
Carol [arrives / gets / reaches] home at 5 every day. (arrive; get; reach)
Phil was approaching home when it started to rain. (approach) (his home)
The puppy followed me home. (follow) (to my home)
*She entered home. (enter) (her home)
Mark stopped for gas and then continued home. (continue) (to his home)
?Greta wanted to start home before the traffic got too heavy. (start) ((to go) to her home) (to start for home)
Brenda [came / returned] home late. (come; return) (to her home)
Paula was so angry that she chased Brandon home. (chase) (to his home)
He was too tired to drive so Julia [took / drove] him home. (take; drive) (to his home OR to her home!)
They [went / hurried / staggered / walked / flew / marched / ran] home. (go; hurry; stagger; walk; fly; march; run) (to their home)

Here's an oddity. It's ambiguous.

He fled home after that disturbing incident. (flee)
1. He fled from his home.
2. He fled to his home.

CJ

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