Personal Phone, Professional Use?
The unspoken pressure your employer exerts for installing business apps on your personal smartphone.
A short missive, nay rant, on what I term “corporate expectation”.
We’ve all been subject to the sinister variations of doctrine that emanate from the denizens of notional management and emperor automatons of HR, flows through the brutally totalitarian channels of corporate communication, and gradually immerses us up to our necks on a very regular basis.
It’s commonly forbidden to discuss salary or benefits, call out your project manager for their childlike misunderstanding of how to run a real world project, disagree with company direction, or even ask for more resources as “the CTO knows better²”.
It’s also commonly forbidden to install personal applications, or apps if you’re below a certain age, on a company device.
Fair enough, I say, they’re an infiltration vector of course and any self-respecting company (no matter how bad the IT operatives are, and they can be pretty bad) should be preventing this kind of tomfoolery under punishment of the usual forced defenestration (or having to have lunch with the project managers).
Alas, it doesn’t work the other way around.
