Interesting. The offices in the part of the world where I live generally consist of flat surfaces where employees place their company-provided laptops.
The exception is things like receptionists, or other areas where multiple employees share a common terminal. But as mentioned before, those computers are basically used as stationary, large-screen browsers or thin clients for cloud applications. Email? Excel? It's been a decade since I've seen people doing that on desktops in office environments.
Obviously laptops count as desktops for the purpose of this discussion, since we are talking about desktop operating systems, which is what laptops run.
The exception is things like receptionists, or other areas where multiple employees share a common terminal. But as mentioned before, those computers are basically used as stationary, large-screen browsers or thin clients for cloud applications. Email? Excel? It's been a decade since I've seen people doing that on desktops in office environments.