Not sure how other people are but I couldn’t not have a smartphone for my job. Feels like that’s either a luxury for rich people or one tiny benefit for people with lower demand jobs who are done with the job when they leave the office
I’ll just divert all my calls and texts to my wife’s phone and have my son handle all my administrative tasks. I’m also refusing to check email before noon and I decline meetings because they are not productive.
Hang on, my wife just told me my boss says I no longer have to work at all now!
Feels like that’s either a luxury for rich people or one tiny benefit for people with lower demand jobs who are done with the job when they leave the office
what do you mean by “lower demand jobs who are done with the job when they leave the office”?
Seems like you’re making a lot of assumptions. I’m in sales. I make money by being responsive, and having a smartphone gives me tools to use wherever I am instead of having to always going to a computer or tablet like the article describes
I feel similarly. My job uses all kinds of 2FA and email-chain nonsense that pretty much require me to keep one at all hours as well. I’m starting to learn how to retrofit a special half-dumb phone to do those required things, but it’s quite a process compared to what George Clooney got to do
Not sure how other people are but I couldn’t not have a smartphone for my job. Feels like that’s either a luxury for rich people or one tiny benefit for people with lower demand jobs who are done with the job when they leave the office
I’ll just divert all my calls and texts to my wife’s phone and have my son handle all my administrative tasks. I’m also refusing to check email before noon and I decline meetings because they are not productive.
Hang on, my wife just told me my boss says I no longer have to work at all now!
what do you mean by “lower demand jobs who are done with the job when they leave the office”?
Like a job where they don’t expect to be able to reach you outside of office hours
If a company requires you to always be available, that’s a huge red flag, honestly.
If u want to reach me outside of office hours i will be getting paid for all the time u want me to be listening otherwise u will be ignored.
To be honest I do get paid a lot more for this type of job than one where I’m strictly available 9-5.
They do.
You’re not getting full time salary, but you’re getting paid a hell of a lot more than the 1% of the time you’re actually needed.
where i live, “they” can’t expect you to be reachable outside of office hours. “lower demand” or whatever a “higher demand” job may be.
when the limits are clearly defined by law, employers can’t abuse people like you who seem to have weaker positions
Seems like you’re making a lot of assumptions. I’m in sales. I make money by being responsive, and having a smartphone gives me tools to use wherever I am instead of having to always going to a computer or tablet like the article describes
Like on-call duty ? It is to the company to provide you a phone then.
Well it’s not the cost of the phone we’re talking about, the article is about having some carefree phone free lifestyle
I feel similarly. My job uses all kinds of 2FA and email-chain nonsense that pretty much require me to keep one at all hours as well. I’m starting to learn how to retrofit a special half-dumb phone to do those required things, but it’s quite a process compared to what George Clooney got to do