All my coworkers have better rigs at home.
I have a motorized sit/stand desk, aeron chair, climate control, ultra wide monitor, mechanical keyboard etc.
Decade of back pain has completely vanished since working from home.
Conservative estimates:
$x00 standing desk
$1000+ chair
$xx000+ climate control
$x00+ ultra wide monitor
$100 mechanical keybord
The vast majority of people, even in the tech industry, do not have these privileges, so the scale is not nearly weighted as much in favor of home work.
We spend a lot of time at our desk and so spending a few thousand dollars to create a comfortable workspace is far from exorbitant.
This is so deliberately myopic as to make me question whether your argument is in good faith.
A "$xx000+ climate control" is something _literally anyone who's employed_ would have as a furnace (or, slightly less commonly, as a/c, but still very prevalent[1]) and is not a unique expense to WFH. The perk is being able to set it where I want (vs. my employer setting it for me), not simply "having it." And if a $100 mechanical keyboard is a truly unobtainable indulgence for budget reasons, surely a $100 car repair to facilitate commuting to the office is, too.
[1]: https://paylesspower.com/blog/air-conditioning-statistics/