Going to do a minor rant now, so bear with me.

My thoughts on Apple and their hardware is well known - I dislike them immensely.

My workplace has been trying to get me to use Macs for ages and I have stubbornly refused to do so.

Sure, running Linux on a non-supported machine does have its problems, namely that I have to fix my own issues when they appear, but it does help the company when they hire contractors who are also running Linux and have the same issues that I do, and that I have already solved.

The company VPN for example, they provide a VPN client by Palo Alto which is horrendously bad -- provides no UI and returns after connecting so I have no idea if it's connected or not and it broke when the company implemented SAML.

I used OpenConnect with a SAML wrapper to work with it.

All of these are minor compared to what I found out this last week.

It seems like the company has installed some software on the macs it issues that calls back into the central office so the business can track what you're doing.

How detailed? Well, apparently to the level they can see what tabs you have open in Chrome and how long you've been on them.

I, of course, am not subject to this tracking since my machine and OS are not installed by them, but this really scared me.

I also found out several years back (before I started here), they actually tried to track people's time at desks to see if people were having too many/too long cigarette/toilet breaks.

If you think Macs are the only target, then nope. Windows users have to use Citrix to log into a "virtual" PC, where they can probably track the same things.

I guess I will continue being the black sheep of the team. The moment they force a mac on me, I will be heading in my notice.