Is that a thing now? I don't keep up. I'm ready to cut it clean again. Not because of any coded thing, but because it's hot as fuck. But I have to keep it a few more days, then I need to find the time to get it cut.
That's a great question. In my experience (15 years at MSPs and several years as a freelance consultant where I'm mostly in house one place but take side jobs) I've been the one who had to make this change.
Some companies are very serious about it. Laptops end up on some device management solution that can tell every program you've got installed and flag anything not pre-approved. Then take away everyone's ability to install outside of device management.
Some companies want to scare the users into compliance but want IT to be able to do their own thing. So they'll install some easily bypassed thing or enroll everyone but not keep an eye on their network to find rogue devices.
Some companies threaten it, pay money for a consultant to put together a plan, don't like the price, threaten to go elsewhere, and the exec who championed it finds a new job while nothing of note was done, but they're sitting on a handful of licenses for software no one is using.
I used to carry a toolkit of free software in portable format on a thumb drive and another thumb drive with a full Linux environment in case I had to do something at the first kind of company.
There's no easier way to groom someone than to make them feel special and important. And it's sad because kids should feel special and important. Just not because Uncle Touchy-fingers is feeding them bullshit.
However it was calibrated before I can promise it's even worse now. I'm a straight dude. I'm a dudely dude. I dress like an extra on My Name is Earl. Other than crocheting and sewing my hobbies are all very "guy" hobbies. I'm currently sporting the worst mullet you've ever seen (it was a bet, ok?).
However, I get told with alarming regularity "I thought you were gay". I think it's because I'm friendly without trying to get in anyone's pants.
Similar, and some devices can do both. EMS makes muscles contract so it uses higher voltage. But they're both devices that shoot electricity into an electrode you put on your body.
The people buying these aren't the workers being forced into meetings. They're the idiots who think meetings are the real work. So they can be in a meeting wherever they are without dragging out the laptop and pretend they're the ones making money before they have an expensive dinner while they're making the people who hate meetings work late.
Examples include consultants, Managed Service Providers, financial services, staffing firms, HVAC companies, and lawyers. So yeah, workforce augmentation and anything you don't want to keep in house for one reason or another.
I had some in a drawer and used it on a lock that was stuck to loosen it until I could get graphite from the hardware store. Then went on a mission and de-squeak the whole house.
Is that a thing now? I don't keep up. I'm ready to cut it clean again. Not because of any coded thing, but because it's hot as fuck. But I have to keep it a few more days, then I need to find the time to get it cut.