That depends on what you are doing and your position. IT must expect senior hackers will try to find ways to improve their setup. I wish more companies would recognize that it is not wise to have their workers surveilled by external companies and instead setup these machines with tight privacy by default.

Better to give you less privileges than too many. And if you really need the freedom to things that you can’t. You could always use VMs, if needed.

If you can install and use virtual machines you can use hypervisor escapes - any company that lets you do that probably isn't in the list of super locked down envs (or if it is its probably for a great reason.)