[lordleft]

Is that...legal? I mean I feel like requiring employees to source hardware you need to do your job would violate some statute, somewhere.

[abalashov]

No, it's not illegal, as long as nothing in one's employment agreement prohibits it. What's more, many category of umreimbursed work expenses are tax-deductible for W-2 employees, for precisely the reason that they commonly arise.