I don’t see why. I think it’s generally silly to think of your work computer/account as a place for anything private. Even if they won’t normally look at it, it

I don’t see why. I think it’s generally silly to think of your work computer/account as a place for anything private. Even if they won’t normally look at it, it’s all fair game if e.g. someone subpoenas them. My employer had a team which did a similar thing to the GP (had a spreadsheet with everyone’s password) in case someone was out and had some crucial file on their computer. And while they have since stopped doing that, it is because they improved processes such that it wasn’t needed and not because it became acceptable for the team to fail to carry out a large portion of their business activities or obligations because someone important was sick. The problem is that the spreadsheet meant that exploiting one user meant exploiting the whole team but you can have this kind of privilege escalation in plenty of other ways. An easy way is to give people lots of permissions so that they can get their work done, or to just be bad at revoking permissions once they are no longer needed. Plenty of companies deliberately give people wide read permissions as a part of a culture of openness.