Use PC as a docking station?

My wife would like to work in the home office more often at home. She has a work laptop with all her important programs installed. With this laptop, she has to connect to the server at work to get access to the work-related data. You would like to use your screens and peripherals from your desktop. Is this possible without a docking station? So access the PC via the laptop and use its devices. This can certainly be done remotely, but I don't know what the server looks like at work. On the one hand, you would have to switch to the desktop and once to the server.

Hence my idea: Connect the laptop to the PC by cable and only use its devices. Is that even possible?

There are docking stations on Amazon, but you would always have to unplug all the cables from them. Depending on whether you want to use the desktop or the docking station with a laptop.

Is there perhaps a more elegant solution here?

It depends on the laptop, but if it has two USB ports and an HDMI / VGA port, you can just switch the three cables.
I think the solution of using the PC as a dock is less sensible. I also don't know how to do it, I've never heard of anyone doing it.

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, the laptop only has a single output in the form of an HDMI connection. At work, she can use her two screens with the docking station.

Unfortunately that will not be so easy. I would recommend that you get in touch with the admin and get a docking station or get one from the client. As a rule, they are very cooperative.

The simplest solution out there seems to me to be a Kensington Universal USB Docking Station:
https://www.notebookcheck.com/...934.0.html

https://www.cotec.de/kensington-sd3600-universal-usb-3.0-dockingstation-319

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