Secure storage is mostly for people with kids or at-risk individuals at home.
Secure storage against burglary doesn’t exist; if they want your guns, they’ll just grind their way in or steal the safe to grind later. Expecting home owners to protect against that absolutely just isn’t practical, the goal should be keeping curious (or determined) kids from getting in, and deterring theft from burglary should be a nice side-effect. Unfortunately, most gun locks fail that standard.
keep it in the car
Yeah, I’m not going to escape a building with an active shooter to retrieve a gun and go back in. If I know I need it and it’s in my car, it might as well be at home. And keeping it in the car is just asking for trouble from an officer, they seem to be easily spooked by such things. Fortunately, I’m white, so I’ll probably get the benefit of the doubt, but it’s just not something I’m interested in testing.
But if there was an incident in my office, I’d be screwed. There are three exits:
emergency exit near my workspace - would sound an alarm (not ideal)
main door - glass doorway that opens into the entryway and looks into my hallway (terrible)
back door - need to pass a glass door to the lobby, and another to the lunch room; it opens up onto a balcony (long drop, would need to cross lots of windows either direction)
So basically, my options aren’t great. Yet I still think I’m net better off not carrying.