Yes, I am required to use a VPN for work, and they can view what I do while I'm on their VPN. But I also do personal stuff while I have my work VPN up and running. I'd like for that to be hidden from them, if possible, and switching between the two would be a PITA. But at the end of the day, if that's not possible, then I guess I'll just have to switch between the two.
This is why I roll my own VPN (OpenWRT with WireGuard).
It’s free, I don’t have to trust a third party provider, and I can configure it any way I want.
If you’re on your employers network, they can still see you regardless of any VPN. What I should say is, it could be done. I don’t know how complex the network and software running it is. Maybe you know for a fact that they track you via their VPN service but there are other ways. Router for instance.
Their local network(wifi) is the first thing you go through, then onto the internet network(world wide web via a network of domain name servers) then then on to a VPN network(servers) and then to domain name servers again to your final destination(a single server such as the one freerebuplic resides on).
Your best bet would be using a phone and your data plan/cell signal(4g/5g) to get on the web instead of going through their wifi for personal stuff or just do it after hours.
I have no idea how you could configure two VPNs. The goal would be for the only traffic they see from you is going to your VPN and not the final destination.
Lot of effort to go through to do personal stuff at work, uhm, when you should be working.
That’s my situation, scouter. If there’s a way to run two VPNs and direct your traffic through them by application, I’m not aware of it. Sorry! I have to do the manual switching and yeah, it’s a pain, but just like everything else, you get use to it after a bit. Perfect solution? Nope. Just the easiest one.