Google doesn't like workers who always work remotely, but periodically working from home (or the bus, or hotel, or coffeeshop, or the lobby at the auto mechanic, etc.) for a day is common for all employees.
Fair enough, but that still limits potential employees to a certain physical proximity to Google offices. While there are a number of those, and I aim to bring one here eventually, it is still a limitation.
But why would anyone not be willing to leave their family, friends, and life behind and move to one of the most expensive cities in the world in order to work at Google? Isn't work important to you?
According to his github profile, munificent lives in Seattle, so...
That is the same policy that my $BIG_INTERNET_CORP_WITH_FEMALE_CEO copped a lot of flak for because of the news being mis-reported by the media.