I worked at companies that had 'clean desk' policies. No desk, no drawer, no nothing for questionable benefit (it was touted as a security policy).

I can't imagine working at a place like this for one day longer than I really had to, before finding a better job.

That is what I did. I took the job as a knee-jerk reaction from losing projects because or covid as a freelancer. I think it has to do with the ISO security certification. It brings lots of little nuisances.

Very common in Pharma/Life science as documents are highly controlled, also anything visible to an auditor is seen as a risk to be managed. Auditors if the want can ask to see inside drawers, cabinets etc

The ones that I've worked at still allowed you to keep your things in a locked drawer. I'm surprised to hear there are places that don't even allow that much.

In such companies it should be straightforward to request a particular keyboard for health reasons (risk of RSI). If you're lucky you can get exactly what you want, at worst it would be a Kinesis Advantage or Maltron.