IT employee shares warning to those who use work computer for other things, claims he gets ‘alerts’

An IT worker has issued a warning to those who use their work computers for personal reasons, claiming that employers can see which “websites” you are “browsing” on.

When the pandemic hit, remote working became a reality for many workers and employers; and working from home gives employees the opportunity to test the line between downtime and work time.

But now is an information technology professional who regularly on videos TikTok channel that discusses internet security has issued a warning to employees who use their work computers for things unrelated to their work.

The IT worker, who appears to be based in the US and uses the username @scarlettsunders on the video streaming app, explained in a viral video why it’s vital to keep your work computer separate from your personal life.

Going through @scarlettsunders on TikTok, the IT worker explained in a viral video why it’s vital to keep your work computer separate from your personal life

“Let me explain to you why you shouldn’t be doing more than work on your work laptop provided by your company,” he said in the video, which racked up more than 129,000 views.

“I work for a technology company called a managed service provider. What that is is we are an IT company hired by your company to manage all your IT.”

The IT worker shared how he spends his days installing remote management monitoring tools that allow IT members to keep an eye on any issued computer.

He then warned that they can access these computers through this tool without any of the users knowing.

‘We also have backend access to your computer through Command Prompt, so we can navigate without using a user interface [user interface],’ he continued.

He warned that he could remotely access computers provided by your company through an installed monitoring tool without any of his users knowing

This means they can “jump” on your work computer at any time and dig around and see what websites you’ve visited and what exactly you’ve been up to

“These things can be very profound and alert us to various things that are going on. Not to mention, if you use a VPN to work, we log a lot of that traffic.”

This means they can “jump” on your work computer at any time and dig around and see which websites you’ve visited and exactly what you’ve been up to just through their monitoring tool.

“Keep your work stuff on your work computer and your personal stuff on your PC,” he emphasized. “If you cross that, a lot of bad things could potentially happen.”

According to Apollo technicala leading IT and engineering firm, more than 4.7 million people work remotely at least half of the time.

Many remote workers agreed to voice their opinion on the IT worker’s warning, and it came as no surprise to most.

Many remote workers agreed to share their thoughts on IT workers who double as TikToker alerts and it came as no surprise to most

One user said, ‘I won’t even connect my phone to Wi-Fi, my stuff stays with me.’

Another said, “Just never do anything but work on your work laptop!”

“It’s sad that this even has to be explained. I always keep my things separate,” another wrote.

One user even compared the monitoring to other countries and said, “So, uh, there’s such a thing as privacy laws in Europe, and employees can get in a lot of trouble monitoring what I’m doing on the laptop.”