A good chunk of monitoring of work computers is to detect malware/evil actors. Your work antivirus probably keeps records of every file opened and saved for ex

A good chunk of monitoring of work computers is to detect malware/evil actors. Your work antivirus probably keeps records of every file opened and saved for example, every URL visited, every password entered, etc. Thats pretty invasive monitoring. Yet that information is only used to determine if you have accidentally fallen for a phishing attack or accidentally installed malware on your machine. It isn't the employee who is the target of the monitoring, but the possible evildo-er they might be letting into the corporate network acting under the employees credentials.