When you really sit down and talk to managers of people, nothing is as divisive as the concept of working from home/remotely as a primary arrangement.  I break down anyone's reaction to working from home to one of three camps:

1. Hell no, you won't go - I like my people here - with me.  Maybe I don't trust people, or maybe I think there are natural benefits to being together face to face or some combination thereof.  Report to the office, sucker.

2. Do I get to Pick?  I'll let the people I trust work from home or remotely, but until I have that trust, please report to the office.

3. See you at the quarterly meeting or ROWE meetup - I'm totally bought in to letting anyone work remotely that works for me.  I'm a new age hippie, and let's face it, I really don't like hanging out with people, so it's perfect for me, and for you.

If I attempt to break down those camps into percentages, I think only about 5% of all managers are willing to let anyone who works for them do it in a remote fashion.  That means 95% of the managers of people have some degree of hangup with letting people work remotely.

Also of note - just because your last manager/leader let people work remotely doens't mean the new boss is going to.  Here is the internal memo at Yahoo sent to company employees about a new rule rolled out last week by CEO Marissa Mayer, which requires that Yahoo employees who work remotely relocate to company facilities.  From All Things D:

It underscores a couple of things.  First, there are some obvious advantages to being together as a team in physical space.  Second, just because someone said you can work remotely doesn't mean it has to last forever.

Meet the new boss - different from the old boss.

Add value beyond what is expected, ye remote worker.  Or face the winds of change.  Don't fret - there's free coffee where you're going.