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It's interesting to hear this, because my machines have basically never been locked down. Okay, in some companies that's because the company had us use our own PCs, so they didn't bother to do anything to restrict what they were capable of anyway.

But even when a company gave me a 'free' computer to do work on, they never really locked it down that much. We could still install programs and browser extensions and visit just about any site we wanted, and network security was basically non-existent. We didn't usually need a VPN to access our email or workspace, and much of the time they let us access work email on our phones or personal devices like it was any other account.

This was when I was working for two large organisations, one media company and one fintech one.