To the point of using thin clients: One interesting angle to this is arguably better security for the corporation as there are no USB ports on employee machine

To the point of using thin clients: One interesting angle to this is arguably better security for the corporation as there are no USB ports on employee machines. This prevents employees from making copies of corporate data or bringing malware on their USB flash drives. I know that there's software that disables USB ports, but there are always exceptions or workarounds that are enough to cause an incident. This also eliminates potential of data loss in case of hard drive failure/damage or theft of employee's computer as everything is on corporate servers where enforcement of backups is much easier than on actual computers.