Of course they do. That doesn't make it a good idea though.

Where I'm contracting now didn't want my account added to their org because it's not a profile picture of me. As the public facing stuff of the account is my personal stuff, I don't want someone else to tell me how it should be. So a new account for this customer it is..

GitHub wants a lot of silly things. I want a lot of silly things. Doesn't mean we all get what we want.

We actually discussed this for quite a while at work when I pushed us to start contributing to open-source. Mostly it came down to the fact that TfL wished me to keep my work-life and personal-life separate to keep things simple. Reading that back, it doesn't sound so crazy.

I wish they didn’t do that. Or preferably, I wish they had native “containers” for work and personal repos.

Explore is one of my favorite features and now it’s crowded with work related suggestions. It makes it harder to separate the personal/professional persona and interests. This problem also manifests in notifications. I want a clear separation so I can focus on my personal life after work.

I’ve thought many times about creating a separate account.

Be careful. If you ever write a commit for an open source project a disgruntled employer could become ideas, depending on your contract.