We have never, and will never, integrate someone's personal phone into our infrastructure. Everyone gets a company phone. If you want to use the company phone as your personal phone, or the phone you use to cheat on your husband, that's your call. Just don't complain to me when video of you pleasuring yourself end up backed up to our cloud storage and discovered by IT when tracking down large files eating up storage. (Yes that happened.)

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah the whole thing is kinda dumb on both ends. From the employees perspective it's ridiculous to allow the company have any level of control over a device they own. From the company's perspective, why would you want to allow access and/or have information that's the company's property on a device the company doesn't own?

If I have a password for key company infrastructure stored on my personal phone, then the company fires me... well that seems like a problem a company would want to avoid. It could happen in any scenario, but significantly less likely if I have to turn in my company phone when my employment ends.

But hey the company saves a few bucks on buying phones and that helps the quarterly profits I guess.

[–] Dreadnaught@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

So with MDM, the company can essentially wipe that device remotely in the case that something like that occurs. Not that it's the best option. Still think companies should just provide the hardware. But that's the protection in that case.

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