<story><title>Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/dont-put-your-work-email-on-your-personal-phone-ef7fef956c2f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kpwags</author><text>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&amp;#x27;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.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s an emergency, they can always call, but I don&amp;#x27;t like being &amp;quot;always on&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stilley2</author><text>I recently got a new job where the email is completely locked down (only accessible on a networked computer or via the awful outlook web interface). It&amp;#x27;s been awesome not getting work emails on my phone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/dont-put-your-work-email-on-your-personal-phone-ef7fef956c2f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kpwags</author><text>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&amp;#x27;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.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s an emergency, they can always call, but I don&amp;#x27;t like being &amp;quot;always on&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mti27</author><text>Exactly- if work doesn&amp;#x27;t pay, they don&amp;#x27;t get to play on my phone. I&amp;#x27;d be willing to check work email sporadically, and it&amp;#x27;s unfortunate that doing so in any capacity means allowing an unknown admin &amp;quot;wipe my phone&amp;quot; privileges. Companies don&amp;#x27;t handle that stuff with any sort of finesse and mistakes happen. Ultimately email on a phone may be a moot point for software developers: We use more independent chat apps like Slack, no one worries about texting you, and it&amp;#x27;s hard to do anything really more involved than messaging without opening your laptop (which probably is provided by work).</text></comment>