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Yes, definitely wipe down your chain when you arrive and it'll get rid of most of the water. Microfibre is good, but so is just an old towel or waffle weave cloth if you have any of them lying around.
Is the studio heated, and can you bring your bike inside? If so, I think that would probably be absolutely fine along with wiping the chain to make sure the chain doesn't start rusting.
For me it's just that the bike stays in an unheated and uninsulated garage, so even if I wipe the chain there will still be water that will start rusting it. In my previous place we had a downstairs utility room with an outside door, so sometimes after a ride in the wet I'd wipe the chain and then bring the bike inside for a few hours. When I did that the chain never started rusting.
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Interesting. I ride approx 300km a week and am in Cornwall so a lot of that is in really crap weather though I ride with full guards when the weather is bad. I've got one of the silca wax melting systems which seems to make it a doddle, especially not having a garage to do it in, but I'm trying to figure out best approaches as I often ride 30km to my studio and then can be there for ~8 hours before riding the 30km home again. I saw silca recommend microfibre towels so I was going to get some of them and store a bunch at home and a bunch at the studio.