Steven
Sometimes required travelling to buy good computer components, moreover they provide in-house job. If they are offering travelling job, so you clear the things with the company.
Dovregubben
Many go to training seminars. Many others travel if they have users who are geographically separated.
At my job we have people across state, luckily we can connect to them remotely. Its saves on travel time. We can also use Zoom for a lot of face to face stuff.
Richard
Yes quite a lot do as many companies have more than one site so multiple offices need to be visited.
roderick_young
The person who fixes hardware generally has to travel. That's usually a service technician, but on high-profile cases, it could be a lab engineer. In a large company, a network admin may never see the hardware. We had farms of servers in trailers. The lights were turned off in the trailers, and once the door was closed, it was rarely necessary to go back in. Everything was done remotely.
dewcoons
Currently I am a system and network administrator for a large medical practice. We have four locations, with the three smaller offices being between 30 minute and 90 minutes from the main office. If there are issues at those remote offices, I may have to travel to them.
When I was supporting the automotive industry, I sometimes had to travel to different locations as part of projects. Including spending time at a test facility in the northern regions of Michigan in mid-winter under five feet of snow (while the rest of my team was in Arizona), being locked in a facility near Detroit for a week in preparation for Y2K, and spending three months in Luxembourg as part of setting up a research facility there.
I worked with a company that set up computer systems for schools, and we were in a different school in a different state every week during the summers.
And I worked at companies with a single location so you never traveled anywhere.
All depends on the company you work for.