This is huge. As parent points out, there are some tasks that are very, very hard to do remotely. I'm not aware of anything that's hard to do in an office per s

This is huge. As parent points out, there are some tasks that are very, very hard to do remotely. I'm not aware of anything that's hard to do in an office per se, but there certainly are a lot of tasks which benefit from concentration and focus. Those tasks get easier if the remote environment is calm and the office environment is not. It seems to me that most software development is primarily the latter sort of work, which may explain why so many people here advocate remote work. But not everything is software yet. Just try debugging a circuit board over a video conference and you'll see what I mean....