I just had this very same issue!!

You’ll need to run new electrical wire from your ceiling fan down to an switch. It needs its own wire separate from the lights.

In the light switch gang box there will be a line from the house. You can to tap into that for power and add a new switch and a dual gang box. This is all pretty easy to do. Watch a few YouTube videos to familiarize yourself with the process.

fair enough

I mean VPN exists for a reason. No doubt there can be other reasons you can't work from home or it's more nuanced than secured network but if is just, "we need you on our secured network", that's crap.