What is your opinion of this ridiculous rule that my company has?

I am an inside sales representative for a company. All my work is done via phone. The rule that my company has is that anyone who lives locally has to work out of the office, but if you move to another city or state you can stay with the company and work from home and they also hire people that live in other cities and states and they get to work from their home. Basically what's happening is the people that live locally are being penalized because they have to come into the office, whereas anyone who already lives in another city or decided to relocate can work from home. I think this is extremely unfair. If I want to work from home, I have to actually move to another city or state. Please let me know what your thoughts are. Thanks.