Ok, yeah, company policies locking the options is a thing, true

Being self employed it seems I've lost touch a bit, how stupid those policies can be

Still, locking shouldn't quit the tasks - or does it on windows?
At least with i3lock nothing gets disturbed. At least I haven't seen it yet

But yeah, company policies are often very counter productive - and as we see here, when people leave their laptop open and accessible all the time, also not really secure
I'm currently in the 3rd change of VPN tech, because the customer thinks, that's better.
And it only is getting worse with more proprietary software...