Of course, there are negative concerns as well. The most frequently mentioned is the fact that you are generally always working alone. Although you can often be more productive, for some, this isolation is too difficult to manage. Others find the lack of support staff to be daunting as they have to complete time-consuming tasks that in an office setting would be completed by others. A final challenge for home-based businesses is the difficulty some have in keeping their work and personal lives separate. Since the number of home-based businesses is growing.