I’ve bought two laptops for work from home. And the company’s seat licensed machines were still mounted at work last time I went into the office at the end of last year. Now, I could have given control of my home desktop to the company to manage, but for some reason I didn’t want to give them access to my financial accounts and personal emails. You might have fewer concerns about privacy.
No - my company allowed us to take home our PCs and had recently been switching to laptops with docking stations to facilitate “at home” work - which just happened to coincide with the pandemic.
Before that we could VPN to work onto our desktops from the home PCs but that was deemed “insecure” so, after the pandemic started, they locked down the laptops with monitoring software and those are the only machines that are allowed to access the infrastructure.
Needless to say - I’ve ceased any and all personal activity on work equipment. (Not that I did much but I would use it to occasionally make amazon purchases or check credit card statements - it’s not like I was using it for pr0n :) but now I’ve completely ceased all personal activity on the work PC as their monitoring breaks SSH encryption intentionally)
One annoyance about all this is that we’re a 24/7 support operation so I can get calls at all times of the night for service issues - having VPN access meant that, even if I were on vacation, I could access the systems with either my smartphone or a small laptop to triage or affect repair. (We had both VPNs and 2FA authentication with yubikeys for this)
But now that’s completely impossible as I MUST have the work laptop with me to access any part of the corporate network - either at home or on vacation.