Ahhh, O.K. repair shops I've seen use them. I guess I should have limited it to engineering prototyping areas.
When I'm debugging the first prototype of a board I like to protect it so I don't lose weeks getting a replacement -- not to mention the cost of a prototype. Usually I'm lazy and touch a connector shell before I probe signals rather than finding a grounding strap. It depends on the weather.
One place I worked encouraged engineering not to use static protection because we wanted to see how robust they'd be in customer hands. But this was in Virginia, so it was rarely dry enough for static problems
I had a strap even at a local repair shop 20+ years ago and a set of metal kickers that you put over your shoes when I worked for Sun, we even had to test the impedance of them by standing on a plate and would have to change them if it went too high.
That said If I'm just working on something quickly which is most of the time now I just touch chassis ground. Fortunately the UK is mostly never dry enough for big potentials to grow unless it's been really air-conditioned!
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