It's an interesting approach. As usual, it sounds like a poor approach if you want to retain your best employees. It's effectively saying "We're excluding qual

It's an interesting approach. As usual, it sounds like a poor approach if you want to retain your best employees. It's effectively saying "We're excluding qualified people from our jobs based on their ability/desire for commuting." If that person's ability and/or desire to commute is a strong signal for an effective employee then, sure, go with this policy. I doubt that ability/desire for commuting is strongly correlated with being an effective employee.