My company got bought by a new one last year (might have been late 2021 but don't remember exactly) and they are now starting to require us use a company laptop.
Many issues have come up so far:
1) we have to go into the office to collect these and as we've been working from home since early 2020 some of our team work hours away and it would be incredibly inconvenient for them to collect said laptops
2) the laptop has to be on a company WiFi in order to log in for the first time (which I was only told after I'd gone into the office, come back home and been on a call with support for an hour, luckily I don't live that far from the office but for the people on our team who would have to travel 8+ hours to the office that would be an awfully costly mistake)
3) none of the employees of our company (only parent company support) have admin rights to the laptop so if we download any kind of software we have to call the support team up to have them remote onto our laptops and put in the admin email / password
4) they pre-installed all of the pre-approved 'necessary' apps onto the laptop but forgot about our team that need additional apps that the Devs don't need so we have to call them up every time we need to install another app we need
5) for every new app we install we have to also put in a support ticket in order to get approval for the app we are installing even if another team member also has that app installed
6) a lot of our company apps are available to download on one of our company servers but we're not able to access that server from our laptops so we have to get approval from the support team as well as approval from our company and also get support from someone on our company's side through the parent company support in order to get onto the server so we can download the essential apps to our company laptop
7) parent company gave us 5 days to do all this before they remove all remote access to non-company computers
Not only have they screwed over the employees in our company who now have to set up completely new computers after remotely using their own desktops for the last 3 years but they've also screwed over their support team who now has to filter through all the tickets and phone calls from our company from people setting up their computers. It seems completely unnecessary as we have been operating like this for years and had no issues (other than the odd desktop that doesn't want to turn back on after being restarted and needs to be switched on manually from the office) but our parent company has demanded this or else they will cut our remote access.