Have been notified that when my cellphone life cycle ends they won't replace. I am 100% telecommute. Given the option to use my phone but not willing to risk potential legal hold , not to mention unwilling to pay for their phone. Are they just okay with my co-workers and managers not being able to reach me?
Does anyone know if there will be exceptions? I've asked management 3 levels up but nobody seems to know anything.
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You can request a system called Cisco Jabber on your computer. It will add you desk number to your laptop.
@OP, if you went up the chain three levels about a phone, you may want to start worrying about your job. Just saying...
And this is a problem?
I have been very fortunate enough to have a stock market-related job, so we do not have to work outside of business hours very much. If something comes up, we use our personal cell phones, but that is only on occasion. So I realize I don’t know and appreciate the facts. My question is: what was the advantage of having both a personal cell and a business cell? I don’t think I would enjoy having 2 phones.
this was discussed in depth a week or two back. I didn't go with BYOD (also FT remote) and will use my personal cell phone to take calls, will not post my # on teamworks (not required) and won't be available any longer on weekends or PTO since I won't have access to my emails on the phone. My guess is enough people decline BYOD and in a year or two they'll see the loss in extra productivity and bring it back on a limited basis. The problem was before practically any exempt employee could get one and that could clearly be a large expense for a company of our size. Look for the BYOD threads and people have shared more. Oh and surprise! Next year remote employees will start using their own computers for accessing the network. That's a fun one too.
no exceptions for remote work. If you have a written telecommuting agreement on file, you can expense a dedicated phone number/line for business purposes up to $60 per month.
Regarding your own device, all of the "legal hold" stuff is for BYOD which enables calendar and email. Using your personal cell or land line for the "phone" part of a phone doesn't subject you to BYOD.
The bottom line is that they are saying "email on your phone is an option but not a requirement, therefore we will not pay for it"
What really stinks too is that if you decide to get a separate line for just business purposes, you can no longer deduct those expenses on your taxes because of the tax law passed in 2017 by those in control at the time.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see the bank try to pass on increasing numbers of business expenses to employees. They will get away with it because of the attitude on display in the first response. You will have to compete for your job with people willing to take any type of abuse and who will tell others to deal with it too.
You just now found this out? You’re about a month or more late to the game. The solution is simple, you provide a phone number or don’t. If you don’t you are no longer employed. If you do you do not need to provide a smart phone with email access, calendars, etc. it’s just a phone number where you can be reached. Exactly like when you first applied to work at Wells, you gave them a number to reach you at. Wells didn’t mail you a phone to do your interview with.
You could try to get away with Skype being always on and signed in. But that isn’t exactly feasible for emergency contacts