Now, there are I'm sure, lots of smaller companies who don't enforce policies like that...
I wonder what the tendency is among all companies regarding strong IT policies. I wouldn't consider working for a company like the one you describe, but I suppose to each his own. At my current company (mid-stage 30-ish person startup), I decided when I started that I didn't want to deal with maintaining more than one machine, so I use my personal laptop to do all my work, hooked up to a pair of external monitors the company provides. I really like this arrangement, and wouldn't have it any other way.
Stuff like this makes biz travel easier, as I don't have to compromise between bringing my work laptop or my more 'comfortable' personal laptop, since they're one and the same.
Yes, there's always the possibility of a fuss when you leave the company; they want to make sure you've deleted all their data from your machine, but in practice this hasn't been an issue for me (yet).
I wonder what the tendency is among all companies regarding strong IT policies. I wouldn't consider working for a company like the one you describe, but I suppose to each his own. At my current company (mid-stage 30-ish person startup), I decided when I started that I didn't want to deal with maintaining more than one machine, so I use my personal laptop to do all my work, hooked up to a pair of external monitors the company provides. I really like this arrangement, and wouldn't have it any other way.
Stuff like this makes biz travel easier, as I don't have to compromise between bringing my work laptop or my more 'comfortable' personal laptop, since they're one and the same.
Yes, there's always the possibility of a fuss when you leave the company; they want to make sure you've deleted all their data from your machine, but in practice this hasn't been an issue for me (yet).