I think it's just another unfortunate manifestation of the phenomenon that Big Tech loves to exploit --- that people seem to care very little about privacy in general, or perhaps have been guided gently in the direction of doing so by those who stand to profit the most strongly from it.
In your specific example, there could be a slightly more positive reason --- proof that you do actually have a job at where you claim to be working.
> that people seem to care very little about privacy in general, or perhaps have been guided gently in the direction of doing so by those who stand to profit the most strongly from it.
It's not just that they don't care: it's like they see some privacy-invasive thing and automatically use it because it's privacy invasive
Like whenever people not only use chrome, but are logged into their google account 24/7 while using chrome (I'm sorry if the reader does this...). I get it if there's some niche feature that requires it, but most of the people I know who do this aren't doing it for that reason (or any reason at all I guess)
In your specific example, there could be a slightly more positive reason --- proof that you do actually have a job at where you claim to be working.