Having done incident response for many companies which allow byod for laptops, I can attest that this was already common before the pandemic and the trend has only accelerated.

One particularly fun outbrief included the head of their desktop support org talking about how much better their satisfaction scores were with the users when they were allowed to use laptops they had personally chosen. Chose metrics that align with your goals or reap the outcomes.

From personal experience at Microsoft, it's pretty common for laptops these days.

Six or seven years ago, I was getting sick of Windows and wanted to switch to Mac – but the corporate standard was a Dell laptop, you had to go through a special exception process to get a Mac, and my manager told me he'd been trying for a bunch of his reports and had been struggling to get the exceptions approved – so I just bit the bullet, bought one out of my own pocket and used it as my main work machine.

And this wasn't some little three people shop. This was Oracle.