I don't know how exactly IT at work did it, but all links in emails (except some internal links) get replaced with a link to an url 'checker', I guess to block if the link goes to a known phishing domain (I guess, I don't think any link got blocked that way). Issue is, the original link is part of the url and sometime got mangled and it's annoying when you just want to copy the link to paste it somewhere else.