After an … incident where someone who shouldn’t have had my personal number gave my personal number to someone who really really REALLY shouldn’t have had it, I did the same thing. Then work was like “OMG why do you not have a work cell phone? Let’s get you one.” I had to change my personal number for unrelated reasons which ended up saving me epic amounts of trouble later (the second person in the chain started harassing everyone who they’d gotten the cell phone number for). Now anyone who gets my personal number gets a lecture that ends with “If I wanted them to have my number they wouldn’t be asking you.”
Everyone I’ve given the lecture to seems to be pretty understanding about the whole deal.
Eh, maybe but I think that’s sensible. MDM to keep company data safe, separate phone to keep personal data personal. The companies have a legitimate reason for MDM and employees have a legitimate reason to keep their own data use and activity where their employers can’t get at it.
Complaints about carrying two devices … also sensible but I think should be lower priority than personal security and privacy concerns.
On the topic of having two personal phones, I don’t currently have a need for two. I wish we were at a better place with separate user profiles on mobile devices. I think that would alleviate some of the need (not for MDM and separate devices for work and personal) but it would still likely put people out of contact for one profile whenever they were using the other one.
