Backlash can be the bane of any teleworker's otherwise productive workstyle. Peers, managers and coworkers sometimes can't help but wonder what's going on back at the home office while they're toiling at the corporate digs. Combating the stigma of telework can be an almost daily affair. The whole focus is supposed to be on deliverables. If you are doing your job and doing it well, any backlash that does come has no basis and is easily refutable.
Some people suffer backlash to their teleworking with regularity.
I think it's a big concern. When she's in the office, Smith is there for the team's biweekly project meetings. If she's at home cranking on a project and she hasn't forwarded calls from the corporate office, she leaves a greeting telling people to e-mail her for a faster response. Then she checks her voicemail hourly. Even when she recently took a sick day and could have gotten by without checking in with the office, Smith checked e-mail and voicemail.