&gt;Yes, the company suffers a little.<p>Teleworker friendly companies attract better workers from a much wider area, remote workers are more productive, the company is more flexible in terms of growth, and has lower overhead.  Yet, incompetent management needs a new fad to seem like there doing something which is why company cycle back and forth though this issue.<p>PS: On top of all that it makes it harder for lazy employees to seem like there working.  Those long hours posting on Facebook pretending to slave for bosses who just cares about the appearance of work stop being so useful.