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depends. early in company stage where IT department has not bugged your laptop and you’re working 12/7 - yes. once IT starts installing ‘backup’ , ‘security’ and similar software - nope
Every company will have limited personal use policy. If you are not abusing company laptop and not watching porn or downloading pirated torrents, nobody cares.
Porn is not illegal right? I don’t think anyone cares about that.
Porn is not illegal. But, if you read policy carefully, they will have fine print somewhere.
Only on company time
Ask your manager. I use it for personal use, but avoid the obvious like porn and illegal activity. Reddit, YouTube, and Netflix is free game
It seems like the majority of people are commenting on if you can instead of if you should.
There’s an important legal aspect to consider. Anything you do on your work laptop becomes your company’s property. So, if you are writing a personal project, you lose the IP. If you are doing for example photo editing, your company becomes the owner of those photos. Same for what you write, etc. Now, I think it’s totally fine to do personal things like watching Netflix, reading news... as long as you’re not doing illegal stuff. But keep in mind you can’t build anything personal with that laptop or you’ll lose the IP.
By virtue of being employed anything you make on your personal computers during non-work hours is your company property if it is related in anyway shape or form to what you do at work. Read your employment contracts 9 out of 10 companies have it written that way and won’t change it unless you ask them to change it.
Not at Microsoft. If you do work outside of work hours, on personal machines, without using work’s knowledge, it’s yours.
Startup working remote on a fresh laptop only I've had my hands on. No way they would know what I'm doing.
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