I worked in this guy's org as an L5 & L6. Opposition to remote work is the primary reason I left Google in 2015.
Its also one of the reasons we lost out on a number of good internal transfers. We had one amazing guy. World famous, luminary in his field, who lived in Livermore who had a deal to WFH 2-3 days a week who turned down a job in our org because he would have lost that deal & would have had to commute from Livermore every day.
EDIT: To be clear, the opposition to remote work that impacted me came from the VP immediately above me. It is certainly possible that other forks on the org chart under different VPs were different. I never specifically talked to this person and got his views on remote work.
Its also one of the reasons we lost out on a number of good internal transfers. We had one amazing guy. World famous, luminary in his field, who lived in Livermore who had a deal to WFH 2-3 days a week who turned down a job in our org because he would have lost that deal & would have had to commute from Livermore every day.
EDIT: To be clear, the opposition to remote work that impacted me came from the VP immediately above me. It is certainly possible that other forks on the org chart under different VPs were different. I never specifically talked to this person and got his views on remote work.