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Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Recently my employer has pushed for Okta Identity management. And somewhere in that plan they somehow thought appropriating employee personal phones was a good idea. Now we can't login to certain internal apps without a mobile device because Okta needs one time password/accepting push notification. And the otp/push notification should necessarily happen on a mobile device. Given that company hasn't provided any mobil…

We use Okta where I work but we are allowed to install Okta Verify without installing the MDM profile. If we want to do work email on our phone, we do have to submit to MDM. 99% of the employees I know refused to allow MDM on their personal phone, and the company was OK with that. They made a few managers carry work issued 2nd phones. We also use Slack and are allowed to use that without MDM so that works for a lot o…

Any company that wants to put an MDM on my phone, will have to buy me a second phone.

See, I'm the computer geek in the family, and that means that I'm the family MDM manager. Which means I already have an MDM on my phone, and since you can only ever have one MDM on a mobile device like that, well the conclusion is inevitable.

If they don't want to buy me a second phone, then they're going to have to decide which of those two policies they actually want to enforce.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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This is certainly a very good reason to not put your work account on your personal phone, but my primary reason not to is that it's my device and I pay for the service. If my company needs me to be available beyond my 9-5 workday, they can pay for it. If there's an emergency, they can always call, but I don't like being "always on".

Basically I have my Gmail work account on my phone but I'm syncing it manually, only when I want/need to consult it.

Mine syncs automatically, but there is no notification sound, only the visual indicator in the status bar. That works for me.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Funny story (well OK, not so funny), I worked at a company where the FBI decided to pay a visit and investigate some potential naughtiness performed by members of the senior staff. They asked questions such as "Do you use your cell phone and personal email for company matters." Guess what a lot of them said, "Yep, have to." That immediately made their personal equipment, etc. in scope for the investigation and they c…

Recently my employer has pushed for Okta Identity management. And somewhere in that plan they somehow thought appropriating employee personal phones was a good idea. Now we can't login to certain internal apps without a mobile device because Okta needs one time password/accepting push notification. And the otp/push notification should necessarily happen on a mobile device. Given that company hasn't provided any mobil…

Authy as a chrome extension?

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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I don't know what country you reside, but in USA you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Prove of guilt is on the prosecution side, I don't have to prove I'm innocent. This and 5th amendment works magic against being wrongly accused; it also is indeed a deterrent to "carrier prosecutors" from trying to obtain prosecution via a good-old soviet style type of investigations: "give me a man, I give you a paragraph"…

> I don't know what country you reside, but in USA you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Yep. And you can sit in jail for a year or so while they figure that out at your trial. Of course you’ll have lost your job by then. And paid your lawyer a fortune so you’re broke. And your family is kind of screwed up over the whole thing and the hardship it caused. But you were innocent. And that’s all that mattered.

Yep. It happens. And these are extreme cases in which system has failed. Usually you end up suying the system and state/county/whomever wronged you has to pony up millions in settlement. That's also probably the only reason the scenario you describe is very rare and not a norm.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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post #245

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I don't know what country you reside, but in USA you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Prove of guilt is on the prosecution side, I don't have to prove I'm innocent. This and 5th amendment works magic against being wrongly accused; it also is indeed a deterrent to "carrier prosecutors" from trying to obtain prosecution via a good-old soviet style type of investigations: "give me a man, I give you a paragraph"…

Umm, kemiller2002 perfectly described the justice system of the good ole US of A. Once a prosecutor wants to get you, they stack all kinds of charges together to take your 1 year crime and make it a total of 10 years in prison, so you'll take a deal that gets you back to the original. At the Federal level, the conviction rate is 93%. Even if you are innocent, you can still be convicted. > Edit: don't break the laws w…

OP described situation in which you are bailed then had DUI. That's my point. Don't break the laws when you are on bail.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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post #244

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> I don't know what country you reside, but in USA you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Yep. And you can sit in jail for a year or so while they figure that out at your trial. Of course you’ll have lost your job by then. And paid your lawyer a fortune so you’re broke. And your family is kind of screwed up over the whole thing and the hardship it caused. But you were innocent. And that’s all that mattered.

Yep. It happens. And these are extreme cases in which system has failed. Usually you end up suying the system and state/county/whomever wronged you has to pony up millions in settlement. That's also probably the only reason the scenario you describe is very rare and not a norm.

It’s not rare, though it may not be for a year. And you can’t sue because the government did nothing wrong. You were found innocent at trial, that’s how things work. People found innocent don’t get to sue the government for wasting their time. If you can’t bail out you’re stuck waiting in jail.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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> If my company needs me to be available beyond my 9-5 workday, they can pay for it. If you're salaried then they are paying you for it based on the job requirements, it's part of the job and one of the things that separates hourly employees from salaried ones. Unless you're talking about the cost of your cell plan or device? But even then, a lot of companies will pay for your plan and subsidize part/all of your devi…

No they are _not_. Salary is for 40 hours a week, +/- 5 hours depending on temporary circumstances. Salary is not 40 hours working + 128 hours on call per week.

That depends on whether or not the employee is FLSA exempt or non-exempt.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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If you use your home computer to RDP into your work computer, what would be the correct answer to the question? The "work" occurs on the company-owned computer, but you are typing on the keyboard of your personally-owned computer.

The correct answer is whatever your lawyer says.

Whatever the judge says. Lawyers say no, yes, maybe with maybe being the big fun part
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