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0 pointslechacker2y ago0 comments

I don't know why people even care about that. I go out of my way to not use my work laptop for personal work/projects/etc. Especially considering the amount they value the laptop at (which may be inflated) is deducted from your severance payment

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devsda2y ago

From my experience, not many people set boundaries between work and personal tasks and the number of people who have personal software projects outside work is tiny.

I too am guilty of using work laptop for personal work like shopping etc couple of times.

Personal anecdote:

one of my colleagues was recently discussing about replacing his 6 year old laptop that he rarely uses, one of our architects commented : "I don't understand why anyone would need a personal laptop at home. We can use our work laptop for anything that our mobile can't do". I was surprised to hear that from an architect and even more surprised to see many others nod in agreement.

Edit: fixed a typo

ghaff2y ago

On the one hand, having complete separation of work and personal electronics is a best practice. On the other hand, most of us don't carry two phones or two laptops when we travel on business.

If I were a senior government official or in some other high profile/sensitive role I'd probably be more conservative but it's pretty common to use some combination of personal and business-issued devices for everything.

boringg2y ago

I think a lot of people dont bother getting their own laptop and are then in a bad spot. That said thats their own bed made.

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