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[PragmaticPulp]

> is it not concerning that 30 employees, all of whom are remote and not on PTO, have not even opened their laptops in a month?

One of the employees commented that the company gave a lot of people outdated Thinkpads, so they use their personal computers at home.

I had a company-issued laptop that I only used when traveling. If the company looked up stats on laptop use, I would have been near the bottom of the list for that reason. Doesn't mean I wasn't working.

[orev → PragmaticPulp]

In many companies, using your personal device is grounds for immediate termination.

[danaris → orev]

This is not a universal rule, nor should it be.

If it were the case here, it seems very likely that it would have been mentioned.

[PragmaticPulp → orev]

And at many companies, it's not.