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Never!
Immediately
10 years and have never. Would still rather pay for a sperate cell phone.
Whether this can work for you depends on whether you have the self control to either ignore work email when you’re not working, or turn it off/hide it on your phone during those periods. If you can, you can likely save the $1,000 or so you’re paying out of pocket for your personal phone each year by going to one device, assuming your employer provides the functionality to allow that. If your employer provides a phone you have to return when you leave, it may make less sense to drop your personal line.
As to privacy concerns, the mobile device management software used to deploy corporate settings and apps to the phone do not have access to other apps and accounts, so your IT department can’t access your personal email accounts, texts, Instagram, Tinder etc., even if they had the people to do so. Plenty of people who haven’t looked into it spread misinformation on this point.
Just because you don’t take action today doesn’t mean you won’t in the future. I for one would never trust any employer with my personal phone but to each their own I guess.
Never. Always separate.
What companies even allow that?
Use the security apps to authenticate
I did the first year and immediately took it off a few weeks later. It sent the message to my manager that I was always available.
Year 3 (didn’t want to pay to upgrade any longer)
If your firm allows it, go with Android Enterprise enrollment. It will give you the greatest amount of personal privacy and control over when work is “on or off” with a simple flick of a switch. IT cannot see anything on the personal side of your device.
When smartphones came out. Yeah, I’m old school. I started this crap before mobile phones were commonly used.