Bypassing laptop security to install Skype

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On my company laptop, which is a MacBook Pro I have administration right and can install any software that I want.

The only software that is disallowed and cannot be installed is Skype.

I asked the IT support to allow me to install Skype on my laptop but couldn't convinced them.

Now I'm looking for a workaround to install Skype on my MacBook.

One way I can think of is installing a Virtual machine on my laptop and trying to install Skype on that Virtual machine.

But I know that a Virtual machine takes too much of my laptops's RAM and this might slow down my machine.

Is there any other way to bypass the security mechanism on my laptop and install Skype on it?
 

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I may be being presumptuous, but I suspect that no one on these forums is likely to offer ways of installing something on a Mac which is owned by the company - a company that has explicitly forbidden you to install Skype.

I am not in any way trying to be rude or combative, but it’s our reputation as well as yours which is on the line.

Ian
 

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I hope your company does not scan your system periodically like IBM does their employees systems
 

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We are done here..
 
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