How are you running a business fleet of machines and still relying on offline edge storage? Employees should be working directly out of networked storage, only

How are you running a business fleet of machines and still relying on offline edge storage? Employees should be working directly out of networked storage, only needing an offline cache for the rare unconnected circumstance e.g. flight without WiFi. How many employees do you really have who a) worked on a flight AND b) broke their machine at the end of a flight, before they could sync, AND c) it would take less time to recover the data from a machine with better maintainability (remember: you don't know where the changes are to be found, and your employee doesn't remember) than it would to re-write from the last networked save? For any non-trivially large fleet, you should a) be wiping the disk on a frequent basis so that users don't save work locally, b) have replacement "cattle" machines ready to go whenever an employee comes into the shop, rather than fixing the employee's "pet" machine and having the employee wait for the fix. It may be more expensive to run a Surface fleet, for the reasons you mention, but that doesn't mean it's not a business-class machine, it means that maybe Surface economics don't work out for your company.