I do not know enough about your field to know if it can be done remotely (sounds like not if involved in construction and/or manufacturers like that).
But one dynamic I wanted to highlight for everybody...
I have a good number of friends who live in western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut, kind of in and around Hartford and Springfield.
Despite the pandemic, they have told me rents and housing prices for those small metro areas have shot through the roof lately. Their theory is that professionals in Boston and New York, who are either expecting to remain remote workers for a long stretch of time or even permanently at this point, are starting to flee to exurban locations.
They want to stay within striking distance of a long drive or train ride into the major cities in case they are needed for meetings but, day-to-day, being at the edge of a large city's orbit is fine if you only rarely have to make that commute. So somebody from Boston might move up into southern Maine or western Massachusetts, but they are not brave enough to move to Colorado to disconnect completely from their home base.
So two dynamics here...
(1.) The concept of a "bedroom community" expanding from anything within 30-45 minutes of an urban center to anything within more like 2-3 hours of an urban center might help revitalize small towns as "work from home communities."
(2.) Those people are fleeing obscene real estate prices in major East Coast cities and their inner suburbs to cheaper extreme exurbs. That being said, for people looking to move into large cities, that might create an opportunity for them because real estate in those places might finally deflate a little bit for those needing to be closer.
Office workers turning into teleworkers reduces the competition for real estate and on transportation infrastructure for people who really do need to be physically present. This lowers prices and commute times for the remaining population.
The whole situation argues for a flattening of housing prices between urban, suburban, exurban, and rural, which might not be perfect or as extensive in Iowa as it might be in California, but that should make it easier on people wanting to move.
I do not know how strong this effect is going to be in Des Moines (as it has turned into the sun in the center of the Iowa solar system economically the past few decades), but I am already noticing plenty of signs of this new normal out here. Most of it for the better for decompressing housing prices and highway congestion.