In my opinion, the first thing you need to do for this to work is to have a rock-solid clear value add for your employer.
Too many people make remote working arrangements about themselves and that's why they fail (sure, the employer cares about you, but if you act like you're only concerned with yourself, you'll come across poorly). Spend time laying out exactly how your move won't only benefit yourself, but will save the company time, energy & money and even open up future opportunities that you're willing to spearhead. You have to lay out the path so that it's a clear win for them. If you can do that, then you can usually get what you want too.
That might work if you're getting recruited by a company - but if you're already in a "butt-in-seat" arrangement, you're going to have to bring up a value add for them to contemplate changing things (especially if everyone else in the office is happy with their butt-in-seat arrangement).
It's tough to renegotiate a position if you're simply just asking for things and not giving up any sort of consideration or adding some benefit to for the other party.
> It's tough to renegotiate a position if you're simply just asking for things and not giving up any sort of consideration or adding some benefit to for the other party.
Consideration is I don't quit. It's hard but true. Personally I've walked away from a couple jobs when they tried to reel me back in house.
Too many people make remote working arrangements about themselves and that's why they fail (sure, the employer cares about you, but if you act like you're only concerned with yourself, you'll come across poorly). Spend time laying out exactly how your move won't only benefit yourself, but will save the company time, energy & money and even open up future opportunities that you're willing to spearhead. You have to lay out the path so that it's a clear win for them. If you can do that, then you can usually get what you want too.
Sean Ogle had an interesting write up about this here (from his own personal experience) - http://www.seanogle.com/entrepreneurship/approaches-to-quitt...