I gave up a phone, 4 years ago due to the fact that I am involved in anti-child trafficking and while it is not a grave risk, the reality is there are bad people that traffic in children and the less trackable I am, the more that risk profile goes down.

Anyways, that is just backstory to say, getting rid of my phone was the best thing I ever did, I have a burner with a few hundred minutes on it, in my truck for emergencies but I honestly never use it.

A good deal of people could actually untethered themselves from their phone dependency and actually find out that they enjoy it a lot more than being leashed to one.

I'd probably be fired if I didn't have a cell.

Then the company better being paying/providing said cell to you. If a company requires something to be used, they need to provide it.

They won't ever admit it. It's like if you were hiring someone: most people won't hire someone who doesn't have a phone number because that would be an inconvenience to them, but they can always make up another excuse for why not to hire the person.

Fortunately in my line of work it's not that uncommon to have anything other than a burner phone and even then a lot of people don't even have that. I went completely without one for about 2 years and then decided to get a burner when I had to walk back to my house to get some tools to fix an issue with my truck. Figured I at least needed one for those kind of situations.

That's my point of view. I definitely want the information available on my phone, but I never want it to interrupt me. Even if I get a slack message during the day, for example. To me, part of getting older is the more frequent "was that meeting tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn or the day after tomorrow..." and I don't want to go check my laptop. ;)

I don't even have my full calendar on my personal phone, I just share the "busy" status calendar as a public calendar then subscribe to it on my phone. I can see when my first meeting is, but nothing else!

I wish there was a cal sync different from mail and the rest. Having to login to a secure device to check meetings for the next morning in an annoying ritual.

My office allows the standard iPhone apps to connect to Exchsnge. I don’t see a profile installed on the phone. As far as I can tell, the only change is a required PIN (which I would have anyways).