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Well, why? It just seems risky. Everything you make on your work laptop / during work hours is typically owned by your employer. If your employer is paying you to contribute to OSS, don't use your personal github account. Just don't ever mix personal and company accounts on company hardware.

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Note that if you do make a second account, at least one of them must be a paid account. A single person cannot have multiple free accounts and GitHub does not care if it's because one is for work; it's in the TOS.

There is no way around that restriction either.

I have blissfully been unaware of this. Have even linked free accounts with the account switcher. I'd say this is fairly unenforced.

The typical work contract also extends to outside work hours and personal devices.

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