[freedomben]

You would think that, but it's rarely true. Getting issued a $10 USB drive could take a ton of paperwork and red tape, and eventually end with a "yeah that use case seems inconvenient but not worth us doing stuff". When you have one sitting on your desk or in your pocket already, that's a tempting one

[idkyall]

Honestly in my experience every company I've worked at has had some kind of explicit cybersecurity policy or training telling us not to use USB drives, so from a CYA perspective I think I'd be very hesitant to plug one in to a work laptop at all. But I have only worked at massive corporations, so my experience is limited