My current company has some people in customer service and business development who work remotely. Some of that is related to the work (customer service especi

My current company has some people in customer service and business development who work remotely. Some of that is related to the work (customer service especially) not requiring much collaboration with the in-office team, and long-time employees who moved out of town arranging to remain employed remotely. The rest is the fact that the business development folks are more effective if they're already located in and have networks in and a finger on the pulse of the specific geographic markets they're targeting. That said, the business development job postings do specify markets where we expect the candidate to be located, just not the same one where our central office is located. We also employ contractors in a few departments who work remotely.