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Can I have my watch that does everything a phone does but in a smaller package?
Yes
Umm okay?
The headline is misleading. The article talks about it applying to "support staff". So call center employees probably.
Not a ban, as such, but our IT has been tightening security and is now requiring us to install a device management app on our personal phones if we want to be able to run Outlook or Teams on them. I told them that's fine, I just won't run the apps, which means it's a lot harder for people to get ahold of me outside normal working hours. It's pretty great, actually!
As someone who has to deal with that device management software, good! If your work requires you to be available outside of normal hours, a) make sure you are paid for that and b) make them give you a corporate-owned device. If I could only deal with corporate-owned devices and fully ignore all BYOD I would.
Absolutely. I work from home so I used to run them for convenience, but kept notifications turned off. It was nice to be able to occasionally join a meeting from my phone. But if there's an actual emergency (very rarely happens) they can call me.
Nope. My work phone and my personal phone are two different devices, and I am not logged into any work-related accounts on my personal phone or any personal accounts on my work phone. I don't even let my work phone onto my home wifi.
yeah. I had a place that gave a monthly stipend which is the only reason I own a smartphone. its a work phone and not my phone.
My phone works as a universal medical device. There are specialized devices that can replace my phone, and you are free to purchase them for me and pay for the associated subscription costs.
My company did this which I mean whatever unless the phone app works better I don't really care, but the amount of people pissed my company would pay for a $300 device rather than have his phone, absurd. Again I could understand if they were mad his phone worked better, but no they were mad he got something "for free". Yeah he got diabetes for free you morons.
I use mine for my CGM. So yeah, that will go as far as them realizing they need to pay for extra equipment.
why dont i just put a decoy phone in there and call it a day?
My boss also went hard on no private calls during work time. My colleague immediately switched his work phone off at 5pm sharp because not mixing private and work. Of course soon there was an issue at 5:30pm. It was amazing how that policy got reversed so quickly.
I had a manager collect phones once about ten years ago. I told him if he took my phone I would quit.
He did not take my phone.
I cant work if I don’t have something to listen to. I need to drown out the office noise.
If you don’t trust me to get my job done, you didn’t hire the right person.
This needs to become a human right. Fuck asshole coworkers who think they can monopolize your attention to fuck with you
Not only that, but locking down your communication with your family and friends outside the monolithic "workplace." Screw that!
"I didn't know my family urgently needed me because my boss took my phone :("
"11 and counting wounded or dead in workplace violence incident, help was delayed because employees weren't allowed phones."
Jobs trying to be your parents, warden, spouse, or god, need to be put in their place. Draw that line hard.
I’ve never thought about it beyond questioning why they think your real life stops when your work life starts, but yes, it does.
Is this a desk job we're talking about?
My workplace refuses to give me a work phone. I have to use their stupid MFA app 30 times a day to if they want to take my phone away they can fuck right off.
I found that most mfa apps are not as proprietary as companies want to make you belief. My previous corp job wanted a specific one but copying the secret code into proton pass worked just fine.
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I assume management is free to do what they want with their phones, so they can fuck all the way off.
My work technically has that rule too but it genuinely stops getting enforced once you pass the trial period.
As always, loss of rights for children always spreads to adults in short order.
Wait a minute... Isn't banning phones from schools a good thing? I'm not trying to be difficult here, but aren't they a huge distraction from the learning experience?
Having a phone in school would have been incredibly helpful to me. My middle and high schools got rid of pay phones but did not allow students to use the office phone. I accepted car rides from strangers multiple times because I was unable to get ahold of my parents and also unable to walk home due to distance and not knowing any routes that avoided walking along a state highway.
I also sat through most classes with a genre fiction paperback book in my lap because I needed something to catch my interest and I'd already read ahead in the text book.
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I mean this is already the case and has been since like the 2000s in any blue collar job. You'll get a bollocking if you're doing anything other than your work.
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