I as well am very surprised by how many people seem to have had issues with it.
I have used Manjaro and Pop OS on it, and encountered basically 0 issues on either one. The only issue with Pop OS is Gnome’s support for fractional scaling is pretty terrible(at least at the time I tried it).
I use Cinnamon on Manjaro and pretty much everything works flawlessly. The only thing I had any issue with was the fingerprint scanner, though I mostly just gave up on it at the first sign of issue as it wasn’t a feature I really cared about having.
I haven’t had any issues with battery life, and I just carry an Anker portable battery with it so it’s not really a concern anyways, and having that gets me charging for laptop, phone, or anything else that can use USB C power.
Even still, I’ve observed as high as like 8 hours of battery life while being actively used and that’s more than enough for me.
Might be worth noting I don’t primarily use a laptop though. It’s almost exclusively for when I’m out somewhere and an issue comes up or something.
If the business don't see the value of those things, you're more likely to convince them if you can prove how those things can actually save/make money.
Some pointed out things like retrospective on outages, but there are other things, like how testing could reduce the number of bugs, thus, reducing context switching and debugging times.
You could even tight it directly to money by measuring what a bug cost and make a experiment in a team showing testing reducing that cost over time.
Could receiving coronavirus aid make peoples lives harder if they try to apply for a green card in the future? Like it seems it is if one makes use of medicaid or other public benefits.