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How do you manage private phones with work necessities?
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Yeah, as far as I am concerned, there's a direct conflict of interest between myself and my company when it comes the usage of a device that doubles as a personal and professional device. I understand the company's need to take measures to control sensitive information, and when I do whatever I do on my spare time, I am unnecessarily (from the point of view of the company) endangering the information I have access to. And because of the safe-guards they put in place, they are taking an unacceptable amount of control of a device I keep my personal sensitive data.
Because of this I find it a bit baffling that BYOD ever became accepted practice, both from the employer's side and the employee's side.
It 10000% a cost savings decision. Executives don't see why they have to approve a giant bill for company devices when people have their own already. Regardless of how much we point out the risks.
I am actually used to the company buying you a phone that you use as a personal device, but must then be enrolled in Intune or something similar. It is considered a perk of the job, and a taxable one at that. So the saving is not as obvious in this case.
BYOD benefits the company at the employees stupidity (and sometimes the only choice). The employee thinks “cool, only one phone to use!” but for the company it saves a lot of money and they still get the control they want. They don’t have a downside to implement it.