Not sure at what level the VPN works, e.g From the PC, from the server etc.
The short answer is Yes.
VPNs don’t hide anything from the Administrator… they are like an envelope holding your data while it’s in route to its destination… They dont block anything at the source and destination addresses.
In other words, an envelope wouldn’t stop your wife from opening your mail and it won’t stop the IT admins either. Everything is logged on your browser and router.
Using a VPN on your corporate network is a really good way to lose your job. VPNs connected to an endpoint within the corporate network can act as a bridge which allows someone to circumvent all of the perimeter security and access internal resources.
Not sure I understand the specifics of the question, but I think the answer is the same regardless. With or without a VPN on your machine, IT sees everything you are doing on a work computer. EVERYTHING.
The lone exception might be if if you using something like Remote Desktop to connect to a machine at home, but brother let me tell you, going that route is going to cause more issues with IT than just hopping on Reddit and waiting to see if you get in trouble.
As someone who works in IT. Yes, we can. But we almost never look unless we think there’s some kind of issue or alert. We have too much other stuff to be working on to bother checking random people’s activity.
Yes they can. And if it’s a company computer you bet their ass they will know what sites you’re visiting even with your vpn.
depends on corporate policy.
Corporate policy or not, if I see that on my network, HR is getting involved. Legal would probably get a ring too.
There is no valid reason for anyone on my corporate network to be using a VPN that’s not issued and managed by us.
Can you elaborate what risks are? I mean, why is it that bad?
Seriously?
You’re trying to circumvent our network and wonder why it would be bad?
I’m askimg what exact risks are? I see that it breaks rules and company policies. But what are the risks from IT point of view?
Security?
Intellectual property?
How can we trust this random VPN Proxy that you’re trying to use isn’t malware? How do we trust that DNS requests are being handled by our DNS servers and not the VPN Proxy? How do we know that your computer is getting the updates from our update server? Talking to applications that we use internally?
So many things wrong with it…
If you’re just a user, understand that our networks are designed the way they are on purpose. It’s not your computer. It belongs to the company. You don’t get to do what you want on it. We aren’t running a Linksys for the router and we damn sure aren’t using a VPN to push our traffic to God knows where.
Oh, access to internal network. Yeah, seems big 
And i wasn’t arguing, it was legit interest. Never worked in big companies where network security is somewhat big. Well, at least from user’s point of view Dunno what was happening behind the curtains.
Just know, as a user, it’s OUR network and there are reasons we have things configured the way we do. Since you don’t understand how it works, don’t try to circumvent our configuration
Never needed too Never saw security measures as some obstacles. But it’s interesting to know “why” things exists.