Bring your own device is bad for companies. Any of them using this approach are just begging to have their talent pool drained. If I do work for company on my own device there absolutely no difference between my personal research and the company research and in eyes of the law these companies will always lose if they try to enforce some "secret sauce" to not go to their competition. Wondered why FAANG companies never did this, those that will lick every penny from whatever corner they can? Exactly because they know too well they'll lose badly. Just look at that guy that got bankrupted by Google after he went to Uber - HN had an article a few weeks back.

I wasn't saying it was good or bad, just that some companies do it.

Shouldn't that exactly be appealing to the talent, not having to worry about the company claiming their side projects as their own?

I very often work on my side projects and it is quite an annoyance having to move around with 2 laptops or paranoidly erasing my personal work from company computer.

Also from my experience working at a fang like company they definitely don't seem to lick every penny. We have company laptops because of security reasons, but phones are bring your own which they pay for. Also they pay for WFH office equipment as long as you can reason it makes you more productive or is good for your health. Basically anything that makes you more productive or sustainable they will pay for.

use a VPN to work on your own server/computer from the company issued device. This way there is no need to keep anything of your on their.

> Any of them using this approach are just begging to have their talent pool drained

citation needed

> FAANG companies never did this

Actually it's allowed in 3 FAANGs that I know of.