Force eject external Hard drives on M4 Max

Work got me a M4 Max to work on and I use external hard drives to back up my files. My issues is the only way I can eject the hard drives is to force eject them. My jobs IT dept told me it's a mac issue and I need to shut down my laptop to eject the hard drives. Is there a way to fixx to this issue? BTW the M4 pro Inga's previously did not have this issue with these hard drives.