I’m about 4 months into a new job and I do everything via laptop. It’s a good sized company, about 400 employees I think. I got a request from IT for a meeting to transition from JAMF to Desktop Central, which is affecting everything. I had no idea about JAMF though, it was never mentioned in my onboarding. Trying to look up info on these two brought me to basically “they can see absolutely everything you do.” But it’s not too clear to me the extent involved here. Any IT folks with knowledge about this? Researching into it, fucking every company with remote employees is getting into this. Feels like a massive surveillance transition unrolling in real time and it seems real bad
Edit - are there any ways I can effectively prevent them from doing this? Dummy activity scripts? VPNs?
Double edit — it is indeed a work laptop issued to me
I guess first I'd try the social route. Talk to your manager and see if it is possible to opt out of this shit. If that doesn't work, I'd see if you can get them to issue a laptop for work. Fucking hell if I'm installing some Pinkerton ass software on my personal machine. Failing that, I'd create a work environment quarantined inside of a VM and only use that VM for work.
Alternately, if it is a work-issued laptop that you want to use for shitposting, experiment with creating a backup image of the hard drive and see if you can boot it inside a VM. If you can get that working, you can probably wipe the thing and keep your works stuff isolated inside the VM. If they need to inspect the machine you might have to pull an all nighter returning it to a normal state though.