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Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: According to a survey, 65% of U.S. tech sector workers now use a virtual private network (VPN) on either work devices, personal ones or both. While much of that usage will be because it's installed as standard on work devices, a growing number of people are choosing to use a VPN on their own devices in response to past and proposed legislative changes. The Wombat Security survey found that 41% of those surveyed use a VPN on their personal laptop, with 31% doing so on mobile devices.
Your answer should have been, "The very fact that you know I'm on a VPN proves why I need it". Had he not been trying to spy on your data he would never have known.
Yes, though it comes down to primarily two basically opposite reasons;
I use a VPN to securely access my work resources from home. With two factor authentication and associated firewall rules that control my access to internal resources. They know who I am, they know what I do when I am connected (and since I am with the corp network team I'm actually one of the watchers as well).
I also use a personal VPN, not to access work resources but for the totally reverse functionality - so that people who may be watching my activity DO NOT know who I am, as well as greatly limiting, though not completely removing, the number of people who can watch in the first place.
Pretty versatile thing those VPNs.