Corporate Spyware

[FuzzyAce]

They can ask anything they want. This is the nature of how contracts work (in the USA). Including employment contracts. It's neither illegal or unethical.

I meant it as they shouldn't expect people to comply with a personal device. That's not reasonable. Of course they can ask though, but they should expect to lose good people if they don't provide a work device.

 

[EOengineer]

I have a simple rule. My work stuff never touches personal stuff and personal stuff never touches work stuff.

They stay physically separated. Now more than ever it’s important to set boundaries with companies.

 

[iaresee]

I have a simple rule. My work stuff never touches personal stuff and personal stuff never touches work stuff.

This is the same rule I've lived by for 20+ years.

Always boggled my mind that people would use their work email for personal comms and whatnot. I guess there was a time that having an email address was something exclusively associated with working for a company. But those days are long gone.

Also, when people only have a work-provided laptop.

 

[iaresee]

which I think it technically is required

Depends on the state. And it can be gotten around. For example, at all the SF-based tech companies I've worked at in the past decade, for engineering departments, it was claimed that any compensation for cellular devices was already a part of your full time salary. That's pretty much the norm for new tech companies. It's also a taxable benefit if they do comp you for a cellular.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

It's also a taxable benefit if they do comp you for a cellular.

Wow. In the UK I'm used to my company car being a taxable benefit but not my work phone. I've always viewed my work phone and my work laptop as tools to do my job and nothing else. I'd never use them for anything in my private life and will never use my personal devices for anything work related.

 

[spawnofthesith]

My work laptop is 90% browsing TFG, 10% spreadsheets