Those that micromanage are going to do it whether a person is in the office or not. I had the misfortune of personal experience with this at my last job.
Our fully competent and easy-going manager left for a better position. Someone that had no management experience was chosen to take his place from our group. She also had no experience with AutoCAD, only GIS. So, for every tiny mistake any of us made (she was our checker) out went an email, "politely" chastising us for our transgressions. One person in our group was in another state, telecommuting. He got the same emails, and was just as frustrated with her as the rest of us. And yet, in conversation with her, she's a liberal, or liberal-voting.
She's also within what I have read about who resists telecommuting the most: young and inexperienced managers. Experienced managers understand you don't have to see the person to get good work out of them. All too often, new managers don't seem to understand that concept.
The numbers are going up for those companies open to telework. I don't know the source of the polling information on the following site, but it's rather telling about savings if it's at all accurate:
Telework Friendly Companies and Cities
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