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If there's an emergency, they can always call, but I don't like being "always on".
Everywhere I've worked I've told my manager I turn off work when I leave (unless I'm oncall). I've never had this be a concern, across three large companies.
> you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it. Say WHAT? That's the entire premise of the article. Any sane person who have even a vague idea of what a MDM is will answer with a resounding NO. Is there actually serious companies who ask their employees to install a MDM on their personal phone? The moment you install a MDM on a phon…
Same reason that recent issue with all the Chrome extensions happens. A lot of people blindly click OK, just like we’ve been trained to do on privacy policies as well.
> you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it. Say WHAT? That's the entire premise of the article. Any sane person who have even a vague idea of what a MDM is will answer with a resounding NO. Is there actually serious companies who ask their employees to install a MDM on their personal phone? The moment you install a MDM on a phon…
Every company that does BYOD?
At least if your org is on Office365 and doesn't have too restrictive policies, you can get your email over standard IMAP. There also exist some nice man-in-the-middle proxies which pretend to exchange servers that you've implemented the policies they ask for. I've got multiple "work" (one is a volunteering role) office365 exchange accounts on my personal phone, using [ https://sites.google.com/site/bikomobi/exchaine…
It may not be true for you personally, but I bet it is for most people who have on-call rotations.
Features like Android's separate profiles are critical. We need similar sandboxing on all platforms. I don't think we can change the 24/7 availability culture, but we can change things from a software side to make it less onerous.
I feel like most/many articles such as this are targeted at large enterprises/organisations. I've never been asked to install anything like MDM on my phone for any company I've worked for if needing to/wanting to view work email on my phone. But then I've never worked for a company who has more than around 25 members of staff.
I don't believe I ever actually accepted this on my iPhone. But trying to search around I can't find anything about how to actually find out. Does anyone know? I assume Settings >> General >> Profiles, but it is empty so not sure.
Yes, if it's important to your company for you to be able to receive any of their communications wherever you are, they can pay for a phone plus service to give to you for that purpose. Don't let them use your personal phone for that.
But I still don't want to carry two phones. Which is why I only redirect my company phone regular voice calls to the private one when I'm out of office. If it's urgent, call. If it's not, I'll get to it when I'm in the office.