The actual sentence, according to a Verge website comment, was: “This is a company for grown ups, so if you need to be out of office to deal with some issues, we trust you to make the right decision.” If true, this doesn’t reflect well on Verge journalism.

The fediverse is not an ISP.

Not painless at all. IIRC, I just exported from LastPass and imported (without change) to BitWarden. It worked fine.