I find it pretty disturbing how many of my coworkers don't even have a personal computer -- they just use their work laptop for everything. Mind-boggling. (These are software developers, they can damn well afford a laptop.)
The most I mix it is using my smaller, lighter, Bluetooth-supporting work laptop for watching innocuous YouTube videos while doing dishes. And I used to use it to print stuff at the office, on occasion.
Yeah I’m always surprised by the why anyone would risk having their personal email/life dragged into a corporate dispute because they are emailing stuff between their work and personal accounts etc.
There are 2 types of people. No, not actually, there is a continuum of the feeling of 'just getting by'/low motivation. Many people exist on the side of low motivation and those on the other side don't understand them.
> These are software developers, they can damn well afford a laptop.
Not necessarily. On the one level, you don't know their salaries (as they might have negotiated badly or simply be underpaid), and then additionally they might pay a lot for housing, child support, debt, medicine, or other invisible expenses. Living in a place like San Francisco it can quickly add up.
The most I mix it is using my smaller, lighter, Bluetooth-supporting work laptop for watching innocuous YouTube videos while doing dishes. And I used to use it to print stuff at the office, on occasion.