How is it safer to use at work if the employer can monitor your network traffic? Just because you don't have local cookies that show whatever you've been up to doesn't mean they can't see what sites you're visiting.
And any employer that wants to catch employees doing nefarious things with love for them to flag that activity with incognito mode; it makes it easier to track down.
Wait... so you're saying that someone looking at my browsing can now tell if my browser is using incognito mode or not? When did they change that?
If it's on the employer's machine then you're running their software. Assume it can do anything.
On a more realistic note, assuming unmodified software, they could compare the browser history with requests from that machine, and note ones that correspond to holes in the history. I remember way back there was a browser extension that would randomly request pages in the background, to add noise to any attempts to track what sites you were actually viewing. This might have been when many sites used http (no encryption).
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