Oh yeah, definitely. We had strict regulations about what we could talk about, where we could talk about it and how we were supposed to. There was always the lo

Oh yeah, definitely. We had strict regulations about what we could talk about, where we could talk about it and how we were supposed to. There was always the looming threat of FCA regulation. But tracking and other privacy-breaching forms of surveillance and tracking were definitely not bothered with - in fact, a number of firms would have rather not tracked employee work hours because of all the conversation around junior level fatigue at the time. Most of the tight-lipped tracking of email and other communication came from compliance largely because of regulations against insider trading and the like. Edit:- we all had personal phones that we could use out of work, which compliance did not track. But it was strictly enforced to not communicate to any business connection using that. They would just fire us if we were caught and shun liability that way.