Weird reason you might not be getting a remote job

The managers on my team are thinking about hiring someone to expand the team. I am not a manager. We had a team meeting and were discussing if it should be an internal hire from another team or an external hire. The managers wanted our input on some coworkers on anther team. The managers eventually started talking about how remote work is different from in-person and you never know how someone will react to going remote. The managers said that if they hire externally, they will only hire someone who has remote experience. So if you are trying to get your first remote job, you might not be getting it because you don’t already have a remote job.