[chrnola]

Employers could be free to restrict use of such devices via MDM policy if they wanted.

Also, how many of us have purchased keyboards, mice, displays, headphones, etc with our own money that we happily use with employer owned computers because it’s safe to do so?

[WWLink]

Some employers are just straight up control freaks.

Sometimes it's misguided thoughts about security and third party keyboards from "unapproved vendors" (which is not entirely invalid to be concerned about, but unlikely to be an attack vector)......

But other times, they really do want you to use exactly what they provide you and nothing else. Things like "looking uniform and professional" or not wanting employees bringing their personal belongings to the workplace or whatever nonsense they come up with.

[gumby]

> Some employers are just straight up control freaks.

Sometimes it makes sense, infuriating as it may be. My partner works for a bank and says that daily someone brings up an annoyance due to central IT's restrictions, but nobody wants to be a vector for exfiltration of customer data.

> Things like "looking uniform and professional"

Yeah OK, anybody like that is a control freak!

In extreme freaky control: Tom Siebel was like that at Siebel Systems: you can wear anything you want to work unless customers might see you, in which case you have to wear suit and tie (men) or equivalent. Doesn't sound so bad -- just salespeople, right? -- except that they would tour prospective customers through the development areas so...everybody had to wear suit and a tie.