| personally i quite like to be able to firewall off work from the rest of my life, having separate computers for work and for personal use is one way that can help achieve that. easy way to avoid accidentally checking work comms when you're not being paid to work -- don't use the work machine at all. but i understand not everyone feels the same way. i like to be able to use my own choice of peripherals (keyboard, mouse, screen, headphones/speakers) but i dont particularly care about using a work machine. what's far more irritating than a work machine is work-related corporate crapware on the work machine. e.g. mandatory antivirus that bogs down disk io, security policy settings that restrict your ability to install software, etc etc. > How is occasional working from home/company VPN handled for devs/engineers at your place? i offer three data points: * at small young software-oriented business (headcount 10-20): work provided each employee with a laptop they could use to work from home or from the office on, but people could pretty much do whatever they wanted with those machines, or work using other computers if they chose. * at large new non-software company (headcount ~10,000): working as a contractor, the company let you remote in from your own machine, and started offering BYOD as an option when you were on site, or to use work-provided hardware on site. * at huge old non-software financial company (headcount ~50,000): thou shalt follow the company IT and company security policies, thou can work from home using company equipment, although the company configures the equipment to make it very difficult to get any software development work done (because security) |
Up until now I haven't noticed any restrictive bloatware on company machines, so that's a plus.