Company laptops have become part of the norm of working life - especially since the broader shift to hybrid working practices - but who knew that they could say so much about your place of employment?
While you certainly need to be wary as some companies might use keystroke technology to track your working-from-home habits, there's little malicious you can really find about being given a laptop for 'free' by your work.
Unfortunately that's not the case, as social media have come together to agree on what your company laptop means - and the response has been that it's scarily accurate.
A TikTok, posted by @liljehu, tackles this phenomenon by going over the three most popular work laptops and what they say about the company you work for and how they value you as a worker.
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Starting out with the rather 'basic' Dell laptop, the TikTok argues that if you were given this then you should "look for a new job, as [your employer] is probably experiencing cash flow issues." Throwing serious shade and the trusty Dell.
Moving onto the iconic - for better or worse - Lenovo Thinkpad, it's said that if your company sends you this then "they view you as a number solely for your productivity, you are not a person to them."
While brutal in its assessment, it's assumed that this laptop's prevalence in corporate spaces gives it a reputation for cold, authoritative working environments.
Finally, it's revealed that if your employer drops you over a MacBook Pro, then "they probably have some extra cash to burn, and are spending it unwisely."
What is perhaps the most desirable of the three is then potentially the most worrying, as being given Apple's flagship laptop shows the signs of an unprofessional and poorly managed workspace - that startup you keep seeing on LinkedIn might come to mind...
There are some rather amusing comments underneath the TikTok, with one user claiming that their company "told me to use my own laptop," whereas another was given a desktop, stating that "I was so insulted lol."
Others have expressed their frustrations with their work devices, asserting that their "Dell overheats on sleep mode" and that they were "MAD the min I opened the box and saw THINKPAD."
This isn't a new topic though, and other areas of social media have a different perspective on the matter - particularly when it comes to the good old Thinkpad.
One comment on a Reddit post discussing the topic argues that "MacBooks would be a start-up, thus if funding doesn't work out you'll get laid off," continuing on to declare that "a Thinkpad would be the sign of a large behemoth where you can comfortably exist for your whole career."
It's perhaps a blessing then if you open up a package from your work and see the Lenovo logo, as while you might be 'just a number' in some cases, at least you can be pretty confident that you'll keep your job forever.