Corporate vs personal cell phone

my kids hate having to have two phones. one convinced the company to use personal with fixed monthly reimbursement. neither work in classified industries, but some info is private, especially hr.

 

I have a company phone that is an Iphone. I don't know what the model is, cause I'm an android user. I only use the work phone for work. I use my phone for my personal use only. In all my jobs that required company issued cell phones, I always had my own phone.

 

Great idea. I'm off to set it up on my phone right now

 

Company phone came with 24/7 emails from the boss with their ideas and questions "for discussion first thing" Monday morning.
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I declined the offers.

 

Work phone goes on silent and sits on the charger in the armrest as soon as I get home. It comes back out when it's time to go to work.

It has never been in the house.

 

We're a little more humbly equipped with phones, although we do also get last-years tablets and notebooks.
I use my company (5c) only to receive text messages because unlike certain political figures that I won't name here, I'm actually required to keep an air gap between company and personal electronic data.
SMS forwarding is frowned upon by policy.

Otherwise my COU phone would remain @ my desk.
Interestingly enough, forwarding my voice calls is (still) considered to be OK by the powers that be.
Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of certain political figures that I won't name here......I checked.
Therefore my 5c remains in its company provided OtterBox case and resides in my notebook case until a warbling tone advises me that there is a trouble ticket inbound - or some other company broadcast message like.....not to text and drive.
Always a favorite when I'm on the road.

The 5C has been used as a backup for a proper phone (Droid) a few times, which makes it more functional than a pager, albeit one that is still amazingly frustrating to use.
There are two things I actually like about the 5.
1. It has a for-real physical, mute switch.
2. Good battery life. (probably because of how it's used)

 

when my partner and i were in business, we had 40 company phones assigned, to the tune of about $3,000./mo., which we eventually were able to negotiate down to about $1,200. with at&t.

employees were free to use them personally, and i don't recall ever hearing any complaints. but often, the boss is the last one to know.

 

This is why I got a dual sim cell phone. 2 different ring tones for 2 different lines so you know by the ring tone which line is ringing. 2 different backgrounds for each lines so you know right away which line you're dialing out of. Easy to switch between lines. I don't know why the US doesn't embrace dual sim phones.

 

It is likely because phones weren't sold to consumers, but to the phone companies.
Having Verizon unlock your phone so you could take it to AT&T is a recent development in the US.

 

You would think the carriers would embrace dual sim phones because they don't make money on the phones. They money on the service. Having dual sim phones means the carriers can push 2 lines to customers while using only 1 device.

 

Well, part of our service fees are for covering the cost of free phones and upgrades.

But few people would take the two lines. Most of the people with a business and personal phone don't own the business. The business line could be paid for by the business, but I expect most businesses wouldn't want their data and info going onto a personal phone.

 

All too true. In some ways, I don't blame the corporations for this stance due to the nature of the beast that is the American civil court system (you can sue someone for literally ANYTHING in the good old US of A). However, it's a gigantic inconvenience for everyone involved that corporate IT insists that everything should always be on lock down all the time.