McKinsey & Company Does McKinsey & Company track our laptop and phone activity? How much time spent working and doing other work?

I don’t really have much work rn since year end (and i am obviously not asking for more work unnecessarily). So I watch Netflix (sometimes) during day. Could that be a cause of concern??

Pls. ignore title. Needs to be updated

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‘I’m definitely not a Senior Consultant at McKinsey, did you hear that McKinsey HR? *nervous laughter*’

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Lmao. I literally do just about everything personal on my work laptop short of p*rn

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How do you shoot your p*rn then?I use the laptop for editing.

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Then can but don’t at individual level unless some trigger goes off (restricted sites)….if you are on vpn or Firm phone network and watching streaming might show up as lot of data download. Invest in a personal device.

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The ability is probably there but I doubt GHD has the time to look through your laptop habits unless there was reason to.

For what it’s worth - I’ve been at the firm for 1.5 years and don’t have a personal laptop. So I’ve watched a ton of Netflix/Amazon Video/HBO, and have played a lot of SC2 on my laptop. No one has ever mentioned anything.

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Just don't Google insider trading and you're good

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We only fully migrated off lotus notes 3 years ago. You're fine.

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Oh no.. There are still some traces/2workflows I have seen recently. 😂

Most of these companies have spywares and stuff installed on you laptop to monitor your activity, more for a security matter rather than checking what you are doing.
That being said, I usually avoid to use my work laptop for this kind of stuff and just use my personal one.

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Jokes aside OP you will be completely fine no one cares. The only thing that would be noticed is if you go on restricted sites or if your on case performance is poor

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They see all but my thinking is always that IT doesnt invest its capacity in tracking individual employees unless there is very good reason to. Basically, if you’re doing your work and not visiting shady or controversial sites (ie porn) youre good.

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Hell i hope mckinsey is not tracking my laptop

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Cyber doesn’t care unless your partner or someone asks them to check because of data related concerns.

Doubt it’ll ever come up, but just say you multitask and leave Netflix running as white noise or some BS.

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Not at our firm. No idea about McKinsey

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Just because they don't do it, doesn't mean they can't. I will say, I will watch videos after hours. Like if I'm doing work at 10pm, I'm firing up streaming on the second monitor. If they want to yell at me for that, I will yell at them for making me work way after hours.

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Stuff gets logged for sure but they only check it if you give them a reason to

I use my phone as a personal phone. Laptop is a different story, strictly no streaming during working hours. I watch Netflix on it after hours though, it’s been fine.

I watch Netflix on my personal laptop during the day all the time. Haven’t gotten fired yet

Unofficial policy is that you can do what you want as long as it's not dangerous.

Nobody cares about Netflix

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