Hiltraud Grzech-Sukalo and Claudia Czycholl contributed an article to the February issue of the Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft. In the article, they first present the development of home office use in Germany and selected regulations of the Working Hours Act with possible effects on the health and work-life balance of employees due to violations of the legal requirements. They then look at the obligation to record working hours when working from home and discuss the draft bill presented by the German government to amend the Working Hours Act in this context. Finally, the authors provide insights into the practice of working from home and its regulation on the basis of company and service agreements on the aspects of working time, availability requirements and working time recording. The article is available as an open access version: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41449-023-00403-4