There is nearly always a contract and the business will submit tax paperwork with your compensation to the IRS.

Under the table workers are illegal and on their own

I’m an American and I’ve always had a contract. Even in retail. Of course the contracts are all bullshit and just a waiver of my rights.

That particular redditor had a long history of weekly posts with the shitty home builder work they inspected, but I hear the argument, I have no evidence other than hearsay and didn’t research it myself.

I didn’t read it as humour I read it as a threat or perhaps a dig on trans folks?

Regardless I didn’t need to escalate.

Yeah, or even just budget cuts. I am sure it’s cheaper to just lock it down.

I was at a subsidiary of a very large company and had work slack, email, and all my code on my phone, without even the thing that lets them remote wipe your phone.

It has to do with culture and willingness to put in the effort by the security organization

What does your contract say? With this back to work bullshit I made sure my contract explicitly said I was remote.

Doesn’t mean they won’t change their mind but maybe I’ll get severance instead of fired for cause of they have a back to the office push.

The hell does that mean? They are a shithead CEO, doesn’t need to be more than that.

I’ve heard about this stuff in passing. Glad it is still going on

I used an lcars windowing system decades ago. Can’t recall if it was a windows theme or a Linux window system.
It was neat but not really that usable at the time