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My company isn't that big. I work for one which is a vendor for a bigger one. I was a fresh grad when I joined. The clients complained about echo during skype calls. We didn't use headphones at the time and we'd have to constantly switch between mute and unmute. Some (senior) people didn't bother muting themselves unless someone superior to them was present on the call.

I talk to my manager, get an approval for a headphone and email IT. IT refuses. Since I persisted it got raised to the IT head. IT head calls me in for a quick chat and told me we cannot cater to the whims of every employee. I got told off that I should know my place as a new grad. I offered to use my own headphones, but requested an adapter since the mic/audio were on separate ports. Adapter costs Rs.300 ($4) on amazon. Headphones cost Rs.1000 ($14). Now my keyboard and touchpad sucks too. Overall I have invested more from my own pocket to work with this brick. What I learned from talking to others was that they just recycle laptops and give to employees. Say Emp N and Emp N+1 complain about laptops, they give them laptops which belonged to N-1, N-2. Basically the last laptop they received goes to the next person.

And yes I am stuck with a 4GB i3 Windows 7 (no budget to update windows) with an Ubuntu VM. Good luck running docker on windows. Not to mention the daily rite of passage (BSOD) after 10 mins of booting up.