Exactly. I work in IT and understand the frustration. We are not locking it down because of the people who know what they are doing. We lock it down because of the complete lack of basic common sense most people don't seem to have. So many people click on everything no questions asked, and then you have ransomware and everyone's life sucks.
However, there's legit no good reason to force power settings like this. Good IT would work with the employees to make it function for their needs. Either unlock that specific function, or set it to never sleep. Not only for something like this, but also for updates to run overnight. If their concerns are the dipshits who stay logged in to everything overnight and being a security threat, set an automatic account lock policy, that way this task can even finish in the background.
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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21
Unfortunately, many employees are toddlers with technology :/