Ask HN: Calling personal phone for work related matters? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Calling personal phone for work related matters?

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Post by octobus2021 » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

Worse yet, what about companies forcing employees installing apps on their phones? Pretty much everything now requires 2FA, and many are moving away from SMS to app-based authentication (e.g., AWS does not support SMS 2FA anymore). So I now have to install their authenticator app on my personal phone and use it for 2FA.

Some companies also require (or at least encourage wink-wink) you to set up mobile access to your email/slack/whatever and you have to do it on your personal mobile, knowing that now your personal device has data owned by your company so there's all kinds of legal implications and of course you have to give elevated access to the admins so that they can wipe the thing if things go south...

If I understand correctly even Europe does not require employers to provide business phone, leave alone the US. Hopefully something will be done about it at some point.

Re: Ask HN: Calling personal phone for work related matters?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

octobus2021 wrote: post #11

Worse yet, what about companies forcing employees installing apps on their phones? Pretty much everything now requires 2FA, and many are moving away from SMS to app-based authentication (e.g., AWS does not support SMS 2FA anymore). So I now have to install their authenticator app on my personal phone and use it for 2FA. Some companies also require (or at least encourage wink-wink) you to set up mobile access to your…

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Re: Ask HN: Calling personal phone for work related matters?

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Post by toomuchtodo » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 1:13 AM UTC

peddling-brink wrote: post #8

muzani wrote: post #5

Do you guys still use phone numbers? My phone is only for work related matters. Or things that need attention right now like my wife telling me to turn off thr stove. Most of the time when I get a call, I don't pick it up unless I know who it is. It's a bit like my hotmail email, mostly spam or formal things. I'm not American, so it may be a little different here.

Am American. What do you use to chat with relatives? That’s probably my most significant use of voice calling.

Signal.

Re: Ask HN: Calling personal phone for work related matters?

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Post by muzani » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 2:42 AM UTC

peddling-brink wrote: post #8

muzani wrote: post #5

Do you guys still use phone numbers? My phone is only for work related matters. Or things that need attention right now like my wife telling me to turn off thr stove. Most of the time when I get a call, I don't pick it up unless I know who it is. It's a bit like my hotmail email, mostly spam or formal things. I'm not American, so it may be a little different here.

Am American. What do you use to chat with relatives? That’s probably my most significant use of voice calling.

Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger.

I don't think we have voice conversations anymore. If we're discussing a future project for work, it's almost entirely in text up to 3 AM. A chat with my wife or daughter is all text message and stickers.