https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
Most jobs are not office jobs and cannot be done remotely.
But the article is talking about factories, blue-collar jobs that require actual physical presence.
I do some work with blue collar industrial clients now and again as a favour. I work remote and contract out the various things I can't do remotely to an MSP or various local installers. A factory has an accounting department, it has managers pushing paper all day (although these usually can only be hybrid remote positions), that sort of thing.
You certainly need to build a freaking road to the facility and arrange for the transport of workers but honestly congestion on these roads isn't as much as an issue as disrepair and maintenance because of the heavy trucks driving across them. Talk to anybody running anything industrial and they want to hire some white collar people to automate some stuff to either cut labor costs or expand the business, hopefully the latter, and these people are likely to work hybrid.
I guess you are right and I should give more consideration to industrial uses of transportation infrastructure which are just as relevant as ever.
Besides that, low density suburbia is a very artificial post-WW2 invention, traditional villages were dense enough.
So much property value is tied up in this assumption we need to be close to jobs to work and it's all a lie. Many of the jobs that do require an in-person presence are only located where they're located because the assumption is the jobs need to be there to serve the workers who don't need to be there in the first place. I don't think any part of how we're making cities actually makes sense, because they're designed for the world of 2020, and not the world of 2030.
People have this mindset that's outmoded, they think about how to get the workers into offices. The thought now should be how to get goods and services to the workers.