My bank issues work phones that are just good for Outlook, Teams, Phone calls, and getting authentication pins to connect to Wi-Fi at home. I've been so used to carrying around two phones and I initially found it to be nice having my work be separate from my personal stuff on my own phone.
I have the option now to setup my personal phone to be able to get all the work apps. To people who use their own phones for work as well: do you find it to be distracting? Do you wish it was completely separate?
A few things to keep in mind:
Keep the phones separate. Know someone who accidentally shared some reel from IG (with a ton of slurs) using send function - meant to send it to a group chat and hit teams instead somehow.
One phone. I also unplugged my desk phone and leave only my cell in my email signature.
If I have to be always available to answer a teams ping/email what good does having two phones do for me other than doubling charging cords and risk of losing something? Granted, our office doesn't put spyware on our personal phones so there isn't any downside for me.
2 phones, get that drugdealer vibe going
2 phones, there is usually a clause somewhere that you have to let them go through your phone - wouldn't want to risk it.
ALWAYS 2 phones imo. More privacy and separation of work and personal. Just more optionality in life - you always have 2 numbers for things and you can decide which you want to give to people. It's definitely a flex. When I first started, every female in my life would ask me "what the hell do you have 2 phones for??" and they'd be mildly intrigued, even the ones that it pissed off or laughed and said "ugh you're so pretentious." I have 2 separate providers on both as well so again you have fallbacks - sometimes one doesn't have service and the other does, in say a patchy connection area. Tons of uses overall just having 2. Lastly, I used to drop my phone all the time and was worried having multiple would increase this. It actually didn't. They both hold each other more securely in your pocket so they're less likely to slide out and I drop either one far less. Yes you have the weight and slight space burden of carrying 2 but there's a lot more advantages than downsides.
Also I should asterisk some of this by saying I rock both of them caseless. Phones are pretty slim now and screens are strong enough; I'll drop them sometimes and I have no cracks in my screen at all. If you're doing cases on both phones then yea no shit it'll be bulky. But you should seriously consider going caseless or just doing a dbrand skin/decal type thing instead of a full on case if you have multiple phones otherwise it's too clunky. Caseless is much more sleek and cleaner aesthetically anyway.
As long as the privacy and data stuff is clearly defined, I’d go one phone. I’ve done it both ways and I hate having to deal with two phones
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