Is it ok to use work laptop for a Zoom interview with another company?

[Anonymous]

Working from home, company-issued laptop is nicer than my personal computers. I know no one will know, but it still feels weird to me. Is it unethical? Am I overthinking this?

[Anonymous]

How do you no one will know? Do you know what if any tracking software your company uses?

[Anonymous]

Are you using the company zoom account? I would get my own individual zoom account and use the company computer. I wouldn't use the company zoom account because they could track that (unlikely but just in case).

[Anonymous]

If in doubt, use your own.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been in the same position and did not do it. Just doesn’t feel right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you using the company zoom account? I would get my own individual zoom account and use the company computer. I wouldn't use the company zoom account because they could track that (unlikely but just in case).

If this is a company with any sort of IT know-how, they can track if you use your personal account, too.

[Anonymous]

Nicer in what way? Is your personal computer not able to show video and play sound?

[Anonymous]

Bad karma.

[Anonymous]

Why do you even need a laptop to do Zoom? I use my iPhone for Zoom mtgs. I just prop it up on some heavy coffee table books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you even need a laptop to do Zoom? I use my iPhone for Zoom mtgs. I just prop it up on some heavy coffee table books.

That’s crappy quality for a job interview. Use a laptop if at all possible.

[Anonymous]

Do not use your work laptop for anything other than work. No shopping, no web browsing, no personal email, and definitely no job hunting, resumes, or interviews.

[Anonymous]

Don’t be stupid.

[Anonymous]

Y’all are ridiculously paranoid.

Of course you can use a work laptop. Who cares. The company isn’t recording your zooms secretly. Imagine it’s a zoom with a doctor for your private medical issues. No chance they are secretly tracking this.

The marginal cost of using the laptop is $0. It’s not like you are driving a company car 200,000 miles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are ridiculously paranoid.

Of course you can use a work laptop. Who cares. The company isn’t recording your zooms secretly. Imagine it’s a zoom with a doctor for your private medical issues. No chance they are secretly tracking this.

The marginal cost of using the laptop is $0. It’s not like you are driving a company car 200,000 miles.

Absolutely false. Many companies have policies that clearly state they have the right to monitor any and all use of company computers. There is no assumption of or right to privacy with company devices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are ridiculously paranoid.

Of course you can use a work laptop. Who cares. The company isn’t recording your zooms secretly. Imagine it’s a zoom with a doctor for your private medical issues. No chance they are secretly tracking this.

The marginal cost of using the laptop is $0. It’s not like you are driving a company car 200,000 miles.

Absolutely false. Many companies have policies that clearly state they have the right to monitor any and all use of company computers. There is no assumption of or right to privacy with company devices.

Sure whatever. And you are off the VPN connecting to a zoom link. You think that laptop is screen and audio recording all day long? Should only take a few hundred gigabytes of data to transmit back to the corporate office every day. For a few thousand laptops. And maybe a couple million dollars having some company weed through the data to find anything of note. And no worries if they inadvertently record your kid walking by naked cause policy says no right to privacy and policy definitely trumps federal law.

So now let’s say they find out you visited a zoom link at 4pm. Along with a hundred other zoom links that week, a few thousand webpages, hundreds of emails, chats, messages, and files. Let’s say they somehow find that needle anyway. Okay so they have a link to a zoom call. A link that no longer works. Now what? They spend a few hours trying to figure out where it came from? Who sent it ? Why it got sent to you? That maybe it was an interview? How incredibly bored do you think the IT staff are?