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I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that some people that are working from home are actually working from a coffee shop (in countries where they have re-opened obviously) or other public places with little to none protection against social engineering attack.

I dunno why you're getting downvoted. I think this idea makes some sense.

If you're doing something shady to your employer, it seems to me that it would feel a lot safer to do so while working from your home office by yourself then when sitting right in the middle of an office pod with other coworkers.

I agree, also remote employees might not have the same layers of security as they do if they were in the office. For example, there could be a firewall that blocks malicious code at the office or someone is logging into the VPN on their home computer that is infected with malware.

I don’t work at Twitter, but at my company, Duo restricts us from sensitive web apps while on personal devices.

It might make it harder to stop once it's in progress since you can't physically remove the employee from their workstation.