We started a recruiting firm almost six years ago. At the time, I thought about the number of telecommuting positions we would get moving forward; after all, we were working with professionals doing Open Source development. It only made sense that the outcome of the Open Source model, successful off-site collaboration, would result in corporations letting these people work off-site. For the last six years, I've found it to be quite the opposite. Granted, there are many developers who are allowed to work remotely, but not as many as I originally thought. So the question is, 'Why is that so?' I'm going to repeat what we've been told by the management class, but I'm ultimately going to argue corporations have to offer this option more routinely.