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Re:Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop? by el_dev_hell on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:58PM (#21287134)
I'm 100% remote (so is the rest of our team).

The company doesn't pay for hardware devices at all (all staff are full-time). When I started with the company a few years ago, I used my personal laptop with a separate user account called "Work".

A colleague I used to work with did the same. They had a MBP and set up a secondary user also called work. They had an "incident" on Slack involving a crude photo and eventually quit due to embarrassment.

I sucked up the cost and bought a separate device out of pocket. My personal laptop is 100% personal and my work laptop is 100% work (I refuse to even access email from my personal laptop). I also have a work phone that's 100% work.

Don't mix business and personal life unless you have literally no life outside of work.

Unrelated: is it weird to buy your own work computer if you're remote? I don't get any reimbursement from the company... I've always found this odd.

Re:Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop? by crustacean on Friday October 18, 2019 @11:31AM (#21292214)
Unless you were a contractor, your company should have bought you a computer, full stop.