Title kind of says it all but it’s still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.
Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.
Windows being slower as it is, your work machine likely also has a ton of endpoint security and monitoring tools installed that are constantly running.
and probably all the files in personal folders are synced to onedrive.