[bart_spoon]

Can I ask what your company does? Is there work that you do that requires having in office, non-laptop hardware? Seems like your company has implemented some policies that make it unsuited for WFH, but I don't see them as common. I don't know many companies where people are working on "rigs". Just about everyone is using a company issued laptop, whether at the office or at home. The only difference between working at home and the office is the desk you are sitting at and perhaps the number of monitors you are using. But even from a monitor perspective, I don't think having an extra monitor or a larger screen is that much different from a productivity perspective. A little better? Sure. World changing? Definitely not.

Frankly, its a little bizarre that you have non-laptop company issued hardware for doing work. No company I've ever worked at, from small tech startups to large, non-tech Fortune 500 companies in industries not known for being cutting edge, would have these issues. But every company I've worked at issued everyone uses laptops, utilized team software (Slack/Teams), and had options for either using ssh into on more powerful onsite servers or cloud computing, for the instances where it is required.

[thu2111]

It's clearly Google. You can't develop software at Google on anything other than their own Linux distribution on their own hardware. You can do screen remoting to that hardware though. Also Google uses the term "corp" all the time.