There are software jobs that require physical access to expensive and/or impractically huge pieces of hardware. For example, my job is to write software for 40

There are software jobs that require physical access to expensive and/or impractically huge pieces of hardware. For example, my job is to write software for 40' display walls and immersion rooms that are controlled by input devices connected to (very) pricey room-sized spatial tracking systems. Sometimes I'm able to do my work for the day remotely or otherwise without access to these systems, but quite often an engineer or designer has to be sitting in the space to properly develop, test, or debug an application written for it.