window splits in workspaces do not persist

**What did you expect to happen?**
moving to another workspace and returning should not change the window layout of the original workspace we stated at.

**What actually happened?**
every time I leave and return to a workspace an open window in that workspace is killed, until only one window remains (the last window is not killed henceforth)

my config is found at: https://github.com/J0ns4/emacs-config

**System information:**

```

SYSTEM  type       gnu/linux

        config     x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

        shell      /bin/bash

        uname      Linux 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft #1049-Microsoft Thu Aug 14 12:01:00 PST 2020 x86_64

        path       (~/.emacs.d/bin/../bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /sbin /bin /usr/games /usr/local/games /mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_1804.2020.824.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc /mnt/c/Windows/system32 /mnt/c/Windows /mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem /mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/ /mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ /mnt/c/Users/$USER/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps /snap/bin /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/emacs/26.3/x86_64-linux-gnu/)

EMACS   dir        ~/.emacs.d/

        version    26.3

        build      Sep 16, 2019

        buildopts  --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr '--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules '--libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --program-suffix=26 --with-modules --with-file-notification=inotify --with-mailutils --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-lcms2 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/emacs26-TP6iDo/emacs26-26.3~1.git96dd019=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -no-pie' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -no-pie'

       features   XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD LCMS2

        traits     (server-running envvar-file)

DOOM    dir        ~/.doom.d/

        version    2.0.9

        build      HEAD -> develop 9929883b 2020-10-19 01:25:47 -0400

        elc-files  0

        modules    (:completion company helm :ui deft doom doom-dashboard doom-quit hl-todo hydra modeline ophints (popup +defaults) treemacs vc-gutter vi-tilde-fringe workspaces :editor (evil +everywhere) file-templates fold multiple-cursors snippets word-wrap :emacs dired electric undo vc :term vterm :checkers syntax :tools (eval +overlay) lookup magit pdf :lang emacs-lisp markdown (org +roam) sh :config (default +bindings +smartparens))

        packages   ((flyspell-lazy :pin 3ebf68cc9e...) (org-super-agenda :pin dd0d104c26...) (doct :recipe (:host github :repo progfolio/doct) :pin 1bcec209e1...) (org-pretty-table-mode :recipe (:host github :repo Fuco1/org-pretty-table) :pin 88380f865a...) (org-fragtog :pin 8eca8084cc...) (org-pretty-tags :pin 40fd72f3e7...) (org-ref) (general) (helm-org-rifle) (org-download) (emms) (anki-editor) (olivetti) (zoom) (org-pomodoro) (visual-fill-column) (centered-window) (ivy-bibtex) (helm-flyspell) (wgrep) (company-statistics) (multiple-cursors) (helm-ag) (counsel) (org-superstar) (matlab-mode) (org-roam-bibtex :recipe (:host github :repo org-roam/org-roam-bibtex)))

        unpin      (org-roam company-org-roam)

        elpa       (zoom ts s org-super-agenda olivetti ht dash)

```