[gregd]

I have been fortunate enough to work from home since early 2000s. For many reasons I don't want to use my own hardware for doing that though. The main one being e-discovery. If your company is forced to go through a discovery process, if you've accessed company resources via your personal hardware, it becomes part of that discovery process. Additionally, licensing issues crop up, etc.

But it doesn't surprise me that companies who are forcing people into the office are having a hard time recruiting. If Covid showed us anything, it was that we could all work from home and be just as productive, if not more so, doing it.

IMHO, forcing me into an office is actually a punishment. Why punish me for the high cost of your real estate?

[ryandrake]

Great point about discovery and the importance of keeping work and personal devices strictly separate. There was a story making the rounds on HN last year about someone who kept... well... intimate pictures on their mixed personal/work device and had to surrender the device when their company was involved in a lawsuit. Don't cross the streams!