I've been telecommuting in some form since 1983. I gave up a company office permanently starting in 2000. I've worked for 3 U.S. corporations over that time frame. It's a matter of whether your company values your services.
I think as gas prices go up, there may be more openness for this again.
I got caught in a bad position of trying to obtain work-from-home capabilities right after the company (in relatively new hands) instituted a new security policy to prohibit people from working from home on privately owned machines. The existent employees were grandfathered if they already had that setup.
It seems foolish to be the only one in my department commuting into the office on Friday and communicating online/by phone with everyone in my team.
Years earlier a certain computer manufatturer used to adverise on tv how to “work from home” using the latest technology on their computers. But that corporation didn’t actually support that scenario for their own employees.
It is old thinking. They want to see the bodies in the seats. Or at least know that someone somewhere MAY see them sitting in a seat. Even if the team works online all day in several states.