[cimmanom]

If your work laptop is issued by your company and you work on side projects whose IP you want to continue to fully own, you need a separate home device. Surely you don’t want your employer to have ownership over your personal emails? Your contract may even have policies that when read closely or interpreted conservatively prohibit doing things like social media browsing, gaming, or online shopping on your work computer.

Even if you’re founding your own startup, keeping IP separate can be worthwhile from a legal and governance perspective.

I find it can also help with getting into work vs relaxation mindsets to configure the UIs a little differently to create a sense of boundaries between the two.