No, unfortunately

We (staff) asked for this, or some similar change to our contracts, and leadership refused

Our contracts/agreements currently state that any IP created in the course of doing our jobs or involving any employer-supplied equipment belongs to the employer

Leadership says they won’t enforce this for dotfiles and other small personal non-competing code, but they also refuse to put that in writing :S

That said, most of us have tweaked our dotfiles, etc on work laptops for years and we’ve never had problems, so far leadership has kept their word

Try and get your employer to offer and agree to GitHub’s BEIPA:

https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement