re: Using employer’s wifi on personal phone and tablet

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Which carries an additional expense that shouldn't ne necessary

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No it doesn’t. Most home routers nowadays come with parental controls that allow you to block certain websites. I can go into my router settings and add websites to the blocked list on my kids devices in about 2 minutes.

You’re telling me that a company who deems it necessary to have an in-house IT staff that monitors network usage wouldn’t already be providing said IT staff with security tools that can at least do what my $100 router from Best Buy can?

ETA: not saying it’d be a good idea for OP to be streaming HBO at work. But I don’t see how the IT department will be able to know its him if he’s streaming from a personal device and said device name isn’t something personally identifying. If all his IT department has to work with is “iPhone 13” as a device name and the IP/MAC address, they can’t tie it to a specific employee unless that employee is the only one in the office at a particular time or someone actually witnesses them streaming at work.