My company is supposed to be 'remote friendly'

Any request to work from home is a fight to get approved, regular days frequently get cancelled for vital meetings and best of all our infrastructure is so shit the VPN drops silently every 5-10 mins. Good luck doing a big merge or getting latest code.

And don't forget, every windows communication program (outlook, Skype for business, i.e.) immediately forgets the password you gave them 5 mins ago and shows focus stealing popups to prompt for it again.

Ouch. That's a bummer.

I don't know the particulars of your network, VPNs can be a right bastard to keep open on rural copper.

You might have a look at Guac-Dev. It takes some toe stubbing to setup the server, but once done you can redirect rdp over https. Put simply, remote desktop through your browser.

Oh yes, it's an in house enterprise it service so nothing works particularly well. Even in the office.