It's surprisingly common for people not to own a non-work computer other than a phone/tablet, especially now that prevalence of desktop computers is declining. Some people do still have a home desktop, or a separate personal laptop, but a lot of people I know don't. Or they might have one but it's a shared family computer that's mostly used by the kids, while parents use their work laptops.

This is correct.When all this Corona thing started,we put the entire office on remote. Before we did it,we had to assess who's got what at home. In my department it was about 20% without a laptop/pc. In others was similar.We simply gave company's PC to take home and called it a day. It's a small company, so obviously things are simpler here.

Not surprising at all. I'm also among them. Reasons are: 1. performant laptops are expensive. 2. If not for work, most of the time you don't need it.

Like 400€ for the latest Ryzen 3,which blows away all my desktop PC's? Lenovo E495.

Do you use your work machine for side projects? If so who owns the IP?

If you use your work machine for side projects, I think it is fairly clear that your employer owns the IP.

If you ever owned a desktop chance are you have one now. A lot of people skipped them and went straight to an iphone.

and if it gets compromised, who's liable and how for what

> Corporate devices should be for work.

Many (most?) companies are perfectly fine with you using your corporate machine for typical home-life stuff and side projects as well.

Reduces waste of having to buy two devices.

Seems nothing wrong with it to me?

It's something I would strongly recommend against, since it gives your employer easy access to monitor you, and if for some reason your employer winds up in court, everything you used the machine for could end up read into the record.

They also tend to claim ownership to IP created on their assets.

In practice there's usually nothing wrong with it, but when something goes wrong it usually ends up being a big deal.

Eh. Depends on how much control the company has over devices being used for work. I have a number of different computers--including a company-issued laptop that I use as a Linux system. But I mostly use a personal MacBook for both personal and work use. I travel a lot (normally) and really wouldn't want to have to travel with a laptop that was strictly for work use.