I have worked "from home" extensively. The short answer is I "pay" if you want to call it that. Suggesting that somehow the burden of extra electrical use should be compensated for seems petty to me though.
You can try to deduct it as an "uncompensated business expense" but when you find out what the actual threshold is for that being a real thing you will be disappointed. Either that or you use astronomically more electricity that I do.
I have 2 large desktops, 2 laptops and 4 monitors in my home office. They run all the time as I never turn them off (though some of them do sleep). I can assure you that my hot tub uses far more electricity than they do.
You walk to work now which is great. For me, there was tank of gas a week savings as I drove and 10k miles less wear on my car.
Just as significant I think is that making my own coffee and lunch every day saves me in two weeks what the electricity costs me to run my office for a year. Before working from home, coffee and lunch would easily cost me $20 a day. Two weeks of that is more than my entire electrical bill a month.
Finally, for me anyways, the ability to see my kids when they get off the bus everyday and help them with homework and get them motivated to practice the activities and hobbies they enjoy is priceless.
