Or... just use the web app to check your mail. If you want notifications, this seems like a great use for PWA.
Depends, some companies have mail accessible only from trusted devices web app or not.
Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone
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#32Yes, 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.
If it doesn’t require an MDM profile, I have no problem putting my work email on my personal phone. I don’t want to carry around two devices.
That is totally understandable, and I hope you don't get in trouble when law enforcement comes looking for your personal device that somehow got caught up in their list of devices to look for.
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#33If your employer subscribes to an ethical model which permits them to abuse MDM, viewing your web history and tracking your location, you need to do more than remove your personal device from their control.
You must find a new employer—preferably while you make public this repulsive behavior.
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#34Our company uses G Suite's Advanced MDM on a G Suite Enterprise account. I administer its configuration.
Unless I'm missing something, there's not an obvious way to "spy" on employees, which this article is claiming. Perhaps it's possible, but if it is, it would require a lot of deliberate effort to accomplish. For example, there's not an out of the box way to track employee location. There's not a way to track employee internet browsing history out of the box.
TLDR: using G Suite Advanced MDM, there are not out of the box solutions for tracking or spying on employees in the ways suggested in the article. It might be technically possible, but to accomplish it, your company would need to make a (large) deliberate effort to do this.
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#35TLDR: "do not put work email on personal phone, as the company may ask you to install mobile device management (MDM) to manage your device, which gives them opportunity to spy / control".
This conflates two different things: work email and MDM on personal phone. While I would never install company MDM on my personal phone, many organizations allow you to access work email from personal phone, no MDM strings attached. My 2c.
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#36> 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…
> Any sane person who have even a vague idea of what a MDM is will answer with a resounding NO.
Very few people have even a vague idea of what a MDM is.
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#37This "stop and think" warning is very good, but let's be honest, in many roles you can't say "no" anymore. Most companies require a significant subset of employees to use their personal device for work and have corporate accounts active on it. 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 sandb…
my friend group works for 3 different f500s and all three hand out locked down iPhones for work use only. it's clunky, but I like it better.
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#38This is not about work email, this is about MDM software.
The title is confusing.
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#39While I sympathize with the privacy concerns, carrying two phones around is pretty much a dealbreaker for me.
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#40Our IT policy is pretty broad and obnoxious so i just carry two phones. Couldn’t be arsed to try and keep things separately with policy and software.