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> The company supplies some workers with company-issued Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the role

This is the crux of the issue - xAI allows employees to use personal laptops for corporate work.

This is a MASSIVE breach of internal security operations. Either mandate no personal laptop use or require VDI to access corporate resources.

> In the lead up to the roll-out, tutors were initially told that the company had run out of Chromebooks, and it was unclear when they would be restocked, people familiar with the guidance told BI

This is just pure sloppiness from their IT org, who are likely dealing with some amount of micromanagement from up the leadership chain.

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It really isn't that expensive to procure corporate laptops from an MSP like WWT, especially for a firm like xAI that is trying to raise a round at a $200B valuation. There's a reason Musk was managed out of PayPal fairly early. Even Peter Thiel couldn't stand him.

Why would they not use a company laptop in the first place?

"They ran out" is no excuse

I mean, they could just choose to work elsewhere, but they chose to be morally bankrupt to work at xAI, so they can just accept the software and move on?

This should be the least of their problems these days, given waves hands at Grok. The overinflated paychecks make up for the lack of ethics.

> The company has said it will only use the system to monitor URL and application visits during designated work hours, according to the document. According to its website, Hubstaff can also track mouse movement and keystrokes.

> "This new tool serves to streamline work processes, provide clearer insights into daily tutoring activities, and ensure resources align with Human Data priorities," the company's human resources team said in a mass email to employees.

> The software, which requires workers to clock in and out, would not track activity on the laptop outside of work hours, the document said.

very well intended (smh)

A sensationalist headline intended to get clicks from the anti-Musk zeitgeist

> The company supplies some workers with company-issued Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the role

How is this even a thing? Are there seriously employees at a "tech company" bringing their own hardware? This is madness

Elon Musk declared that none of his employees could work remotely. So this is an admission that he has failed to achieve this goal.