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Are you sure it wasn't your workplace group policy bringing them back?
Unlikely. Microsoft took away GPO control of taskbar and start menu a while back, and I don't think they restored it. And even if they did, a company would be more likely unpin and block them than to push them.
I'll taken your word for it, but if taskbar and start menu were controllable, I'm pretty sure after the third "I've deleted the internet/copilot/notes" support call I would be enforcing that the default taskbar items stay there.
Some companies might be resisting copilot, but many are going all in on it.
I'd love to think that, but my company is currently holding weeklong seminars to make sure that every employee is using Copilot and ChatGPT as much as possible.