Hot-desking killed this practice. I now get desk anxiety on my in-office days
Seems like overkill until it saves my ass. It continues to do so almost half a decade into all the LLM hype. It hits the sweet spot between simplicity, convenience, reliability, and precision.
People strongly underestimate how good the git life can be, especially with all the blogspam on here trying to dethrone it lately.
Don't let IT hear that unless you work on FOSS.
The alternative and typical options that nobody bats an eye at for doing this kind of thing (3rd-party big tech cloud) are much worse from a data hygiene perspective. If you're going to be that distrustful of personal phone usage by employees, you're running a prison instead of a workplace and replacing all thought with pointless checklists. That slippery slope never ends.
From your perspective, the best security posture is for employees to return to the office without any personal belongings so we can be extra super secure? It's too bad we can't erase their memories while we're at it since being a programmer is knowledge work.
And don't talk to police as a suspect. (I'm not sure if the rule still applies if you are the one reporting a crime)
what a time to be alive.
I think for a digital solution to come close you need it permanently present on a nth monitor