Few personal notes:
- workstation model means working on a good (physical) desktop setup, large main monitor, eventual other(s) monitor(s), good keyboard, perhaps a thumb trackball instead of a mouse etc, oh, sure potentially the same can happen with a docked laptop but...
- ...laptop model means being able to move. If we WFH there aren't much reasons to move, well except when moving means relocate elsewhere. In practice MOST laptop users do not use their computers to be operational on the go but as a desktop replacer in suboptimal improvised setups, while those who need a good laptop can hardly find one.
The real issue came out in lack of knowledge from most about how remote works should be done. We have seen a big PR campaigns for more than a decades about nomadic workers who works on unstable and limited mobile network with PCMCIA/3G modems cards, then USB stick/HSPA stuff, portable hotspot, mobile tethering etc in a bar (so with potentially hostile and distracting surroundings) or on a beach (added to a potentially hostile climate/environment for mobile devices) and this model who push from "big notebook" to netbook to ultrabooks etc obviously fails miserably since it can't really work. We can work in such setup for a limited period of time for limited tasks but nothing more.
Now many start to admit that the solution is going back to the classic desk BUT this means every home need a room with a proper setup and so is an effort on both the worker and the company. A thing most reject.
Substantially: it's about time to tell things clear. The modern web is CRAP made to sell services instead of empower users through IT plus an admission that classic commercial desktop model is also CRAP. We damn need real desktops with document-based UIs, working locally and syncing just data that need to be synced. As we do as humans, anyone who do a certain job with a significant degree of independence in a single company.
To do so from remote we need a damn room per worker, well equipped, rented to the employer for a fair rate and establish clear contracts on that work paradigm.
Try to keep up the crappy surveillance capitalism business who can be translated in "rent someone else services, own nothing", in the trace of WEF/2030 https://youtu.be/Hx3DhoLFO4s famous video it's a very expensive absurdity. Try to keep up hybrid craps to avoid real capex is another absurdity.
Those who are eligible to work from home and want such paradigm should offer a proper room for that, companies should be clear "you are hired for remote works AND REMOTE ONLY, eventual travel to meed in persons must not happen more than once in a while" where the timeframe vary depending on the company and workers geographical distance.
Let's do that and we all benefit, companies and workers together in a win-win move those only loser will be GAFAM and friends (from Citrix to Bomgar). Avoid doing so and we will keep an inconsistent liquid situation that can be trivially called like the famous Full Metal Jacket Sg. Hartman definition on the most common amphibious thing so called ...