I went the other way, buying my own computer to do things for work quicker, easier and in many cases that couldn't be done with the computer and software provided by my employer. Management got wind of this and I was accused of makingn unauthorized purchases and was using unauthorized software. When I told them I'd bought the computer and software, out of my own pocket, so that I could do things for my job I couldn't do with their "office computers" - actually terminals to a main frame - they were shocked - and confused. Spent a good deal of my time and money getting around their constraints and spent the last 15 years of my working career telecommuting three or four days a week.
Got a new boss who insisted that computers were tools, not toys, and you worked on computers and must not see it as play, even if the results were the same. He insisted that I work IN the office Monday through Friday. I said "Fine - but I'm only working 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Anything over that had to go on the books as overtime - at time and a half, double time on holidays. And he needed to call all the consultants I worked with an notify them that they were no longer to call me after normal working hours or on weekends."
By the end of the first week he'd gotten a lot of calls from consultants complaining about their projects being delayed because they couldn't call me at home at 10 pm on a week night or up to midnight on weekends to get things they needed or send me draft reports to review and comment on by the next day.
When he finally figured out he was getting 40 hours of work out of me a week - IN the office - and 50 or 60 hours a week - from home (the extra
20 hours being free since they didn't get put on my time card - he let me return to my telecommuting. He never could figure out why I'd put in extra hours - "'cause it's interesting and fun!" was incomprehensible to him.
So - at least for me - it was the opposite of what seems to be the norm in the new work environment.