Article - "I want my Blackberry back"

Realize that most companies have a BYOD policy, however, I found this article pretty interesting. It brings up a few interesting points on the benefits of having a corporate phone and a personal phone vs. one device for both. I'm curious to know what you monkeys think of this.

At a well-known investment firm in New York City, something strange is happening: Mobile app performance issues and privacy concerns have sparked a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) revolt, and now many employees are asking for their corporate BlackBerry back.

Full article.

 

I've always had the choice to keep them separate or combine them using one phone and I've always opted to keep business and personal phone separate. Not that I believe they're tracking my every move or conversation, or that I do anything that I really need to hide from them, but more to keep work life and personal life separate. Nothing is worse than getting a drink at the bar with friends and they're all responding to work emails on their phones.

 

I couldn't imagine having a second phone. I've always had BYOD at every job and I've opted for it every time. I was also a big proponent to initializing it at one of my jobs.

What's the difference of having your work phone and your personal phone on you and you get a work email and check it immediately vs. having a BYOD personal phone and check your work email immediately?

The way to avoid being chained to your work email on your personal phone is not obsessing over your phone every time it beeps because that email might be something 'super serious'.

make it hard to spot the general by working like a soldier
 
Skinnayyy:

I couldn't imagine having a second phone. I've always had BYOD at every job and I've opted for it every time. I was also a big proponent to initializing it at one of my jobs.

What's the difference of having your work phone and your personal phone on you and you get a work email and check it immediately vs. having a BYOD personal phone and check your work email immediately?

The way to avoid being chained to your work email on your personal phone is not obsessing over your phone every time it beeps because that email might be something 'super serious'.

makes it a lot easier to just turnover your crackberry and not even have to worry about ignoring your own phone

 
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HFer_wannabe:
Skinnayyy:

I couldn't imagine having a second phone. I've always had BYOD at every job and I've opted for it every time. I was also a big proponent to initializing it at one of my jobs.

What's the difference of having your work phone and your personal phone on you and you get a work email and check it immediately vs. having a BYOD personal phone and check your work email immediately?

The way to avoid being chained to your work email on your personal phone is not obsessing over your phone every time it beeps because that email might be something 'super serious'.

makes it a lot easier to just turnover your crackberry and not even have to worry about ignoring your own phone

If it's an email, it can wait and I don't check it unless it's something that I'm waiting for a response for like if we need players for my hockey team on short notice.

If it's a text message, I know it's personal because I don't get any work related text messages.

It's not about ignoring your phone so much as it is actually enjoying the atmosphere around you and being there physically and mentally.

make it hard to spot the general by working like a soldier
 
Skinnayyy:

I couldn't imagine having a second phone. I've always had BYOD at every job and I've opted for it every time. I was also a big proponent to initializing it at one of my jobs.

What's the difference of having your work phone and your personal phone on you and you get a work email and check it immediately vs. having a BYOD personal phone and check your work email immediately?

The way to avoid being chained to your work email on your personal phone is not obsessing over your phone every time it beeps because that email might be something 'super serious'.

How about expectations from your coworkers? Everyone knows your have your phone on you at all times. If you have a separate work phone, you can always claim you didn't have it on you so you didn't get the email/voicemail.

 

I could always claim I left my personal phone at home too... Or that I was doing something that I couldn't answer my phone. Working out/playing a sport/etc.

make it hard to spot the general by working like a soldier
 

In my world everyone expects that you do have your phone on you at all times regardless of who owns the phone or how many devices you have. Especially when you're a junior person, you're expected to answer it at basically all times. Nights, weekends, holidays, whenever. At the more senior level you just know who you have to pick up or call right back.

 

Blackberries also had unbelievable battery lives because they didn't have great internet or apps. In addition, when you leave a firm, you don't have to wipe the memory of your personal phone; you would just turn in your (hopefully still functional) blackberry.

--Death, lighter than a feather; duty, heavier than a mountain
 

I'm packing one private and one company phone. I'm careless as shit with the company one, think I've lost two or three since last summer. Only people that have both numbers are the guys in risk mgmt, boss' and they guys who sit around me. No clients, no sales, no research and no MO/BO guys/gals.

CNBC sucks "This financial crisis is worse than a divorce. I've lost all my money, but the wife is still here." - Client after getting blown up
 

The big risk with having the same phone is that you have to take it out when you hit the town with the lads. Who knows what might happen then! I prefer to keep mine separate for a simple reason - the iPhone is ideal for anything non work related (apps pics music etc) whilst you cant beat the bb keyboard for emails. Best of both worlds.

 

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