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I also work from home and use my work laptop for work only. Not even googling stuff, nothing. Just work. Never even opened the media player or went to youtubes website once.
I have my own computer running on a separate screen and I can do and watch whatever the fuck I want during working hours. I can play a game or watch a movie and nobody knows. Its that simple.
Same with phones. Never use work phone for personal stuff.
Its not even being tech savvy, just common sense ffs.
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Same here. It also removes some hassle when changing jobs. All of your personal stuff is on the computer you own and all of the work stuff is on the the computer the company owns. Just turn in your work laptop and you're done with that place and on to the next.
I work in the IT department for my company so I know for a fact that there's no monitoring on the work laptops, which is super strange but whatever.
Still I wouldn't use the work laptop for anything other than work activities because despite the fact I 100% know there's no monitoring I still don't trust it. Besides, It's unprofessional, and although I don't really care about that all that much, it's good to get into the habit of not doing personal activities on a work laptop, because one day they might start monitoring, and this way I'm already in the habit of not doing anything personal.
Additionally, never connect your phone to the company WiFi
Definitely if they require you to use sso, but if it's just guest wifi that anyone with a password can access, I wouldn't worry about monitoring.
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