In Maintenance Console, the Status field heading is not displayed because the default grouping is by Status. If you change the display to group by another field such as Building, then you must manually add the Status field heading under Select Fields to view the status in Maintenance Console. However, once you exit Maintenance Console, the Status field heading is reset to not display by default.  

It would be nice if the Status field heading remained even after leaving Maintenance Console. 

Even if you don't change the grouping method, it can be difficult to determine the work request status when you expand the status heading because there can be many requests under a heading and the heading disappears when you scroll down the list (and you may forget what heading you have expanded).