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In order to challenge to status quo, which is "Personal presence required in all cases, all the time. Period.".

If personal presence is mandatory you'd have a very good reason for it (as in GuiA's case above).

Depends greatly on the job, I think.

If your main field is hardware related, it's probably necessary.

But a software developer, a sales person, a marketer?

I'm in marketing and working remotely is kind of a pain in the ass, to be honest. I typically want to have in-person chats with product managers, developers, etc. about something or other on more or less on a daily basis.

I'm a huge fan of remote work, I've had a full-time remote position previously, I just think sometimes it doesn't work with the culture of a team or business. I don't think that means anything is broken.

Hour long video chat helps, always on chat. Then another video chat with whiteboard