We are now in stage called surveillance capitalism, (look it up if you want to know more) and there will be a push for more and more invasions of privacy and draconian measures to surveil employees and consumers.

When the NLRB promotes or encourages that, it is a serious threat to the population and that needs to be addressed and countermanded or we go farther down that rabbit hole which may be endless. In other words, they more they can invade privacy on more fronts, the more that influence, power and control they will have up to the point of making reversals of these kinds of infractions more difficult and/or impossible.

As capitalism reaches its apocalyptic phase, it is seemingly innocuous decisions like this that take on a very dark and threatening aura and this is a play for keeps and winner takes all environment, which tends to reflect the Fascist/oligarchical approaches and policies of the GOP/Trump which is clearly a threat to democracy in the long-run.

Especially for people like me working for a government agency like the Department of Energy. Because of potentially confidential info, my use of my company laptop is tightly regulated. I can use it at home but I connect via an encrypted VPN and of course, I cant use it for other than work.

Now, a company guard searching an employee car or belongings is another matter all together. Its pushing it too far. That should only be required for people working in classified areas where you are indeed searched randomly as you go in and out because of national security concerns. Giving any employer the power to do this is an abuse.

and he is working from home. Are you working from home?

I think working from home might complicate things quite a bit.

Of course when working from home, we can not have anything that is classified with us. So we are restricted on working on non-classified stuff.

I do not ask him any personal questions about his work. Mothers can be overbearing as it is.

He is recuperating from hernia surgery right now, and I don't know how much he is working. I inquire only about his health.

body cavities?