Given the US, I’d bet 20 states say that it’s illegal (but can’t seem to enforce that unless one of them is New York or California), 20 states say that it’s specifically legal (including Texas and Florida), and the remainder either haven’t made up their minds yet or no one cares what they think because they don’t have the population or economic clout to make anyone listen.

Has anyone done a study yet to see how many managers’ insecurities about remote work can be handled by placing mannequins in chairs at the office?

Maybe they use a film camera. Good luck obtaining access to that by phishing.

1. Wrong country. We don’t do that up here. Overall, we find this results in fewer unnecessarily dead people.

2. Let’s say he’d had a gun, and used it against the police. He would just have gotten hit with an additional charge that could have been anything from resisting arrest to first-degree murder, depending on how good a shot he was. So he’d still be in prison even after being proven innocent of the original charge. Real smart.