I've never really understood why people think this line of reasoning is valid. Prior to the panedemic, I used the bathrooms at the office nearly every day. The toilets are undoubtedly their property, but is it ok for them to put whatever kind of spyware they want in there too?
Usually some of paperwork you sign when joining a large company are agreements that the company practically owns anything you do/invent/think while employed.
Basically assume it's all their IP unless you have an agreement stating otherwise.
I love the European way. It’s shocking to me considering the US was founded and largely consists of descendants of Europeans, how our work cultures can be so extremely different. Every single person on my family tree for both of my grandmothers are from Germany and Switzerland, going back 5 generations. There has to be shared cultural traits passed down to us.
We need to at least move to being more like Canada, if not Germany.
Tough to ever happen as our class war has long been won/dominated by the investment class. Employees here aren’t even cognizant the class war is going on. If they were, they’d choose denial to avoid having to punch up and prefer to focus on fellow workers or energy on disdain for people in public assistance. Ignoring that low tax rates for the wealthy is much larger and harmful public assistance (socialism).