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How much privacy would i be sacrificing to have my work email on my personal phone? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 month ago by Today to c/[email protected]

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I'm non-techy. I work for a public school district and visit with kids in about a dozen schools. I like having my work email on my phone so teachers can get in touch if they need me. For years we've just used the outlook app with no real issues that I've noticed. We're seeing more and more micromanagement and it sucks. We recently got notice that we have to install Cisco Duo on our phones if we want to have our email on it. Should i do that? Or just say no and be ok with being out of contact?

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[–] ikidd 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's Android, set up a work profile and put the VPN and email on that.

[–] Tricky 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A followup question, if you don't mind. I am running stock android 14 on a pixel 6. My main user account is my personal (nothing work related), and a second user account is my work profile, complete with phone-management software. The two accounts are based upon different Google accounts.

If my work were to remote wipe, I have assumed that would only affect the (second) user profile which has those apps, and not the main user account.

Do you know if that is correct?

[–] waz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Instead of adding an account to the device with all of the management software that goes with it, one could use a generic SMTP email client (K-9 Mail?) and still get the email, but not have to worry about the privacy and remote administration concerns.

Edit: nevermind, I skimmed the question at first, and didn't see the duo limitation. This solution probably isn't an option.

[–] Tricky 2 points 1 month ago

Appreciate the comment, unfortunately my employer has limited access to O365 apps. I have a slightly different use case than OP