In the company where I work I know many people doing personal stuff on corporate laptops and I do my stuff on corporate laptop also.
In my case though the company has a nice privacy policy in place and they even gone above a beyoing configuring VPN that only corporate network requests are routed through their VPN servers. Also they don’t monitor the activity, they only scan files locally for certain known hashes for obvious reasons.
In my previous company we had Linux on laptops and our network were highly monitored. People used their work machines like their own. Company had several checks for network in place so if you’d forgot to turn off VPN, you’d got a notification saying that you probably shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing on corporate network.
Hmm I wonder if this is true or not, or if it’s a startup thing. As someone who has worked for BigCorp Inc. companies, I know I carefully maintain a strict separation between my work and personal devices, for privacy reasons and simply to follow company policies WRT confidentiality. Is this “crossing the streams” between work and personal stuff that common in the startup world? I’d think at the very least even a small startup would want to keep their secret IP off personal devices and limit risky horseplay on company equipment.