> Your company likely has full access No, they don't. At my company we buy our own laptops, and we expense them. There is no VPN and no company owned software

> Your company likely has full access No, they don't. At my company we buy our own laptops, and we expense them. There is no VPN and no company owned software installed. And most of what we do is Open Source anyway. > specifically allow you to in some sort of legal contract that says something along the lines of them not owning everything you do on that account Not a problem, my side projects are just for learning purposes. They're open source, and most of them end up abandoned. I'm not running a side business on a company laptop, so they can own everything if they want, I'm fine with that.