[slovette]

As a person that’s been in development, devops, secops, network engineering and now co-runs a software backed IT service startup focused on SMB’s, this doesn’t actually work well IRL in my opinion.

Hosted desktops require a consistent, reliable data connection. Which means any time mobility (car, plane, train, etc) is on the agenda or if an employee needs to work from an area without 100Mbps or better broadband (rural), work or access to work is complicated at best. Further, accessing that hosted environment still requires some kind of user hardware anyway.

Dedicated hardware per employee is still the best route in my opinion. At least then, if data connectivity is nowhere to be found, they can still get stuff done.