Time to Delete? The Most Invasive Apps List Includes Some of Your Favorites

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12. Your work should provide you with a second phone.

If they won't do that get a second work-only phone for yourself and consider it a business expense.

My wife turns her work phone off when she is not at work or on call. Whenever work calls her personal phone it had better be a life-or-death catastrophe.

I used to have a life-or-death job and my employer would assign me a pager, and later a lunch-box sized cell phone, whenever I was on call. When I wasn't at work or on call and not at home they had no way to contact me.

Once upon a time my brother was a well paid executive in a multi-million dollar company. He was burning out on the job and started answering frantic two-o'clock in the morning calls from work with, "Is anyone going to die?" This did not go over well with his multi-millionaire bosses and my brother soon parachuted out of there.