That gets into other aspects of how people are using GitHub.
Using that model, your work on private repos wouldn't show up as "your" GitHub activity history.
Your work on external projects sanctioned by your employer (and thus using your employer's managed account) wouldn't be associated with you when you leave. For example, if you were at VMWare and contributed to the Spring project - if you left VMWare the "I did core work on Spring - its right there in a public repo" would not be associated with the account that you're saying is you.
Yes, it is weird to be mixing work accounts and personal accounts (and the mess I have had with email when my gmail account was associated with a former employer).
There's tradeoffs no matter which way that you do this... and people appear to prefer the set of "using a single account on GitHub for work and personal" and then having the follow on implications of that being that you may lose access to internal repos when you leave... which you would in either case, just its a bit more surprising when its your "personal" account.
Using that model, your work on private repos wouldn't show up as "your" GitHub activity history.
Your work on external projects sanctioned by your employer (and thus using your employer's managed account) wouldn't be associated with you when you leave. For example, if you were at VMWare and contributed to the Spring project - if you left VMWare the "I did core work on Spring - its right there in a public repo" would not be associated with the account that you're saying is you.
Yes, it is weird to be mixing work accounts and personal accounts (and the mess I have had with email when my gmail account was associated with a former employer).
There's tradeoffs no matter which way that you do this... and people appear to prefer the set of "using a single account on GitHub for work and personal" and then having the follow on implications of that being that you may lose access to internal repos when you leave... which you would in either case, just its a bit more surprising when its your "personal" account.