@pdcawley Your implied analogy doesn't hold water for me.
Did your employer somehow prevent you from having access to any other laptops on Earth?
Also, I've NEVER been required to provide my OWN laptop for any job I've had. Would you prefer that? Because I don't believe I would.
"Your own tools" is a flabby, vague concept here that's not transporting well in this analogy. A hammer is one thing, a computer quite another.