You're right that not all engineers get to WFH but more can than you'd imagine. I know defense contractors that are working from home. Two of them did so befor

You're right that not all engineers get to WFH but more can than you'd imagine. I know defense contractors that are working from home. Two of them did so before the pandemic too - remoting into hardware they're not allowed to physically touch even if they were in the lab! A neighbour is a civil engineer and the huge screens he needed to do his job were only in the office. Now that he's moved that huge screen (and I mean massive, it's like a telly), the office have told him that he only needs to go into the office to meet clients. I have a product design dear friend who bought himself a Prusa 3D printer and now can pretty much 100% WFH. He prefers it because he no longer has to share resources. A neighbour is a network engineer and he spent 2020 decommissioning hardware in the server room and moving it into the cloud - something he said was inevitable for his business but the pandemic hastened it. He now WFH pretty much 100% of the time. I know someone who works for a SSD manufacturer in the states and they WFH most of the week. All the web/data devs I know WFH pretty much full time - except one but only because his boss is draconian.