[FlyingSnake]

Touché. People on HN are sometimes really flippant about the lesser discussed segments of software industry.

We had to run the hardware lab with strict quotas in the middle of the raging pandemic, because the critical equipment can't be moved. I had to personally go to office several times to use the jigs to use special test devices, I can't even imagine our remote developers in Poland/Ukraine traveling to Berlin just to work on the experimental devices.

Also a lot of people are overlooking the compliance issue. Several of the projects under TISAX need a sealed working environment where access is restricted even for the same company people. Good luck porting that compliance to a home office.