I’m not sure how often that happens though, I know one of the big gripes is that developers just want to do their job without hindrances – I wonder if having to switch machines would be exactly that. I know in most enterprise organisations I know, the developers have their machine, and it does everything they need, both office and Dev. Some are ahead of the curve and just allow a terminal instance into a machine on the Dev environment, which seems better.

I’m of the opinion that the conversation is entirely different depending on which system is actually being discussed.

Maybe I just don’t understand the work environment of software developers enough, but it would seem to me (as @wrb looks to have touched on in an answer) that Dev environments should be separated enough from Production that Devs don’t really need Admin rights on their “office” workstations.

Then again, it was never really clarified in the question whether the asker was inquiring about development workstations or office workstations – or if the two are even separate in their company’s environment.