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And they pay for it, so it's completely fine for them to track it, in my opinion. Use private phones, people.
You would be mistaken if you think that every work phone is paid for by the employer. A lot of companies have a BYOD policy and still require loading their restrictive bullshit onto it. I have worked at two places like this and I refused to let them do it, but most went along with it. The funniest part if that they still wanted me on the on call rotation, but wouldn't pay for a decent device so they dug out an ancient Nextel phone for me to use. I have no idea how it still worked.
I've actually never heard about this where I live, in Sweden. Thanks for sharing, even though it sounds both shitty and pretty scummy.
I'm glad to hear that the BYOD trend didn't take off in every country. Many of the companies would act like they were doing you a favor so you didn't have the "hassle" of carrying two phones around. Oh that is a hassle, but this was just them shoveling their costs onto the worker.