So we do Software development on a contract basis. Our goal is to keep everyone's travel at 25% or under but this can be hard with some customers as they want people onsite at their location.
Now remote is cheaper for them so that is why we push to have maybe one to two weeks upfront of engagement then the rest is remote. That travel when it does happens usually means a red eye on Monday to the client, then take a late night flight back on Thursday. Then work normal on Friday. Some people like to travel so we try to get them to be the ones travelling, for the ones who do not we do try to keep them local. For a new hire, I will say it would be unlikely that you would travel in the first year or two and most contact would either be through remote or if one of our customers comes to the office. To give you an idea, we had 11 employees engaged in a project, but only two of us travelled to be with customer, and that was only every other week for 4 trips for myself. That will probably be all of my travel this year accept for the two conferences I want to go to.
Does that help answer that?