[michaelt]

If you're sitting in the office waiting for something to build, and you get out your phone to go on HN I'm sorry to say that is probably not the sort of professionalism that's going to afford you much protection from layoffs.

[fsociety]

This comes off as passive aggressive and misinformed. I agree with not putting personal things on work devices as much as possible.

Been in the industry for a while now, no one cares if you pull out your phone. Generally, people treat others like adults not children.

[rthomas6]

Probably so, but at least my company can't MITM and log all my traffic.

[ethbr1]

Agreed. The presumption should be that anything on a work computer is visible to, logged, and retained by your employer.

It was a public case, but the essentially unanimous Supreme Court opinion in City of Ontario v. Quon [0, 2010] shows what expectations of privacy you should have on any work devices -- none.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ontario_v._Quon

[Symbiote]

Unsurprisingly, the EU has a different idea about employee's privacy when using a work computer.

Reasonable or limited private use of a work computer remains private.

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/refer...