"it's simply easier to manage a workforce who rolls into the office and is locally present, though yes, remote (or occasional from-home) management is possible.

"it's simply easier to manage a workforce who rolls into the office and is locally present, though yes, remote (or occasional from-home) management is possible." As an employee with years of experience working remotely and employer myself now I disagree. In my opinion it is easier to manage people remotely now, at least in the areas I work(IT). You can focus on the output someone produces without the interference of distractions. As an example if someone goes and checks early in the morning in the Office, goes home late, it can distract employer opinion on this person being a great value to the company, while in reality her productivity is low. Another example is having someone that talks a lot(extroverts)(high profile people). People that talk little externally look as they do not exist, but on jobs like programming they can run circles around the extroverts. While you do remote work you don't care someone spends all day having sex in her house(good for them) if it provides great value for the company, value that is very easy to measure, as the only thing you get is the output work you get from your workers. Do you like to work at 3 o'clock in the morning? I don't care. You are in pajamas in your house? I don't care. You like tattoos? I don't care. Do you have children? I don't care. Are you productive? I care. The main problem with remote working is that is it rare and we don't have all the experience of recent century of factories and offices history to learn from. But if you go even farther in time you will realize working from home was the normal thing to do before industrialization.