The problem right now is that “encryption ban” is not specific about what kind of encryption they’re talking about. The original ban that was mooted by David Cameron was for messaging apps that supported end-to-end encryption. Obviously he’s never heard of PGP. The ban they’re talking about now… no technical details. And when it comes to the current n00bs in the UK government and technical details, it pays dividends to assume the absolute worst and put plans into motion early.
Also, the businesses I worked with generally relied on 3rd party remote access tools like LogMeIn and TeamViewer. I say “relied”, because after chatting to a few, they’re making sure every business they look after has a reliable, ‘secure’ firewall with support for IPSEC/L2TP, certificates for which will be rotated every month, allowing techs to attach their own systems to our client’s networks in a special DMZ, then SSH tunnel from there to the client system they need access to. This is considered a ‘stopgap measure’.
