Most articles on remote work don't acknowledge that there are some software jobs that, at least sometimes, require proximity to some physical system. As one ex

Most articles on remote work don't acknowledge that there are some software jobs that, at least sometimes, require proximity to some physical system. As one example, part of my job involves writing interactive software for physically gigantic computer systems with a room-sized spatial tracking system. We can hack away on these programs remotely on our laptops, but to be confident in the program's correctness and performance you really have to test your code in "the room".