Hah, remember how Amazon invented "Cyber-Monday"? They claim the Monday after Thanksgiving when people go back to work it'll be their first encounter with Internet-connected computers after the Thanksgiving vacation, and it's the time where they'll be most busy shopping for Christmas presents...

So that's where thta came from...

Amazon was barely a blip when Cyber Monday first came out, let alone the inventors of the term.

> The term "Cyber Monday" was coined by Ellen Davis, and was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on 2004 research showing "one of the biggest online shopping days of the year" was the Monday after Thanksgiving (12th-biggest day historically). Retailers also noted the most significant shopping period was December 5 through 15 of the previous year. In late November 2005, The New York Times reported: "The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what they liked." At the time, a lot of people had slow Internet at home. The idea for having such a holiday was created by Tony Valado, in 2003 while working at 1800Flowers.com, and coined "White Wednesday" to be the day before Thanksgiving for online retailers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday

Why should they only allow MItM’ed traffic when a third party is the one defeating the encryption?

Privacy of communications is a protected right in lots of jurisdictions, not by default overridden by employer interests. From a values pov it makes sense as well, privacy is a human right and the fact that you're at work doesn't invalidate that, social interactions at work can be of a personal nature that is good to keep confidential.

You never watch a conference talk on YouTube at work?

I've always created a google account specific for that company though, so it is still technically segregated from my personal anything