Carrying multiple devices daily?

[CrowTheRobot]

Probably a silly topic, but does anyone have anything they recommend, like accessory-wise or just habit suggestions, to help facilitate keeping more than one device on them all day?  My current job is the first to provide me with a work phone in addition to my personal phone, and for a while I kept some of the more important things on my personal device, like email and 2FA stuff for work accounts, but I've just cleared everything work-related off my personal device ahead of a long vacation at the end of August and I've found a tendency to either leave my work phone at home or in various random work locations.  At past jobs I was more mobile so I probably would've just kept it in my workbag, but I'm much more contained to a single building in this position so my workbag doesn't leave my office nearly as much.

[OhioYJ]

19 minutes ago, CrowTheRobot said:

Probably a silly topic, but does anyone have anything they recommend, like accessory-wise or just habit suggestions, to help facilitate keeping more than one device on them all day? 

How sensitive is your job (not a question you need to answer, something to consider)? I know one of my jobs where I needed a work phone it wasn't anything sensitive. I just popped the sim card out, threw it in a dual sim card phone of mine, and carried one phone (that was then work and personal).

 

For a while I got tired of paying for the personal line, and ported my personal number to Google voice, and then forwarded that number to the work phone. Also another option. (This way texts and calls to my personal number went to the work phone)

[SpookyCitrus]

When I had a work phone(that I was required to keep on my person) it was work phone in left pocket, personal in right pocket. If it's literally just smart phones keep it simple. When I was off the clock I kept it in my vehicle. 

 

I now work in the office most of the day and don't do mobile jobs anymore so I switched to an in office desk phone in combination with my personal phone and call forwarding set up for the occasional I'm out of the office or in an area where I can't reach my office phone.

[CrowTheRobot]

15 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

How sensitive is your job (not a question you need to answer, something to consider)? I know one of my jobs where I needed a work phone it wasn't anything sensitive. I just popped the sim card out, threw it in a dual sim card phone of mine, and carried one phone (that was then work and personal).

 

For a while I got tired of paying for the personal line, and ported my personal number to Google voice, and then forwarded that number to the work phone. Also another option. (This way texts and calls to my personal number went to the work phone)

Semi-sensitive?  I'm a "Computer Technician" (base level IT support) for a school district, and particularly one that had a major data breach a couple years ago.  I have some amount of admin level access to a number of systems, including the system we not only use for registration/scheduling data but also keeping track of assigned student passwords, and also the system that controls our internal 2FA system for Active Directory accounts (though there's inconsistencies in what I can modify and how).

 

Mainly I'm trying for the first time to separate my personal and work devices because I watched my boss go on a vacation cruise a few months ago and still ended up getting sucked into things going on here (though I think the bigger issue there was his personal inability to "unplug" and trust us) and I don't want to end up getting hit by a bunch of work texts and emails while I'm on a 7 day Alaskan cruise.  Also, due to various issues at this job, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be here and didn't want to end up having to pull work stuff out of my personal device at the last minute.

[Agall]

57 minutes ago, CrowTheRobot said:

Probably a silly topic, but does anyone have anything they recommend, like accessory-wise or just habit suggestions, to help facilitate keeping more than one device on them all day?  My current job is the first to provide me with a work phone in addition to my personal phone, and for a while I kept some of the more important things on my personal device, like email and 2FA stuff for work accounts, but I've just cleared everything work-related off my personal device ahead of a long vacation at the end of August and I've found a tendency to either leave my work phone at home or in various random work locations.  At past jobs I was more mobile so I probably would've just kept it in my workbag, but I'm much more contained to a single building in this position so my workbag doesn't leave my office nearly as much.

Could always get a cringy Otterbox case for the work phone that comes with a belt clip accessory. Could also carry it in a neck lanyard.

 

Personally, I carry a pen, flashlight, multitool, 1/4 bit adapter, wallet, keys, knife, firearm on me whenever I leave the house, firearm being the only item not in my pockets. My work phone really shouldn't exist since no one uses it, so it primarily just travels with my work laptop. Otherwise, I have no pocket space to carry a second phone, where a Flip3 is on the edge of too big. Carrying phones in the rear pocket regardless of the case is just not sufficient either, which are the only pockets not filled. Other than putting the work phone back in an Otterbox case with the pocket clip, I have to carry it in my back pocket whenever I may need to.

 

Dual SIM if you can, if you can't, I'd find a novel way that's comfortable to carry, like on the belt or neck primarily.

[OhioYJ]

1 hour ago, CrowTheRobot said:

I'm not sure how much longer I'll be here and didn't want to end up having to pull work stuff out of my personal device at the last minute.

This is the reason, I have multiple Google accounts actually (Android user). I essentially have "work" ones. Then my contacts / calendar etc, for that job, is stored under that Google account. If I really wanted to get rid of all that stuff, I could just completely sign out of that account, and it's gone from the device.