&gt; Better not to work for such companies.<p>Don&#x27;t work for a company that monitors it&#x27;s own IT equipment?<p>Monitoring the equipment is to ensure it&#x27;s working properly, as well as to guard against employees misusing company equipment by installing toolbars and apps that have no business purpose (which ultimately leads to mis-performing equipment, and lost productivity).<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d want to work for a company like that - the IT equipment would be in shambles, borderline unusable.