Work mobile phone for personal use

djpailo

ABARKIE wrote: »

Get a Dual Sim phone

Some very good models out there, even for say £100, you can still turn the sim off if required

which ones?

Frozen_up_north

I wouldn't try to persuade work to get you a dual SIM phone, if there are issues with missed calls or anything else phone related, they will blame you. And it won't be an iPhone that you are currently used to.

As per several replies, I would use as small a phone as you can manage using a PAYG SIM in it for personal use. I did that before retiring, and it was no hardship. Non "smart" basic phones can last a long time between charges and need cost very little for a few personal outgoing calls (Three at 3p/min, 1p per text, springs to mind).

Not using the works phone for personal calls has a lot of advantages:

No tax liability.
No headache each month trying to highlight personal calls and pay for them.
Admin and management don't see who you called and when.
No issues over your personal number porting in/out.

Tigsteroonie

Being contactable out of hours, and having the temptation to look at work emails during down-time, are two reasons why I would not do as the OP is thinking. I love the fact that I can ignore that phone outside of 8-5 M-F, and I use its sleep settings to ensure that I don't hear a peep from it!

ABARKIE

djpailo wrote: »

which ones?

Moto G, Jiayu

Zopo, Sony, Samsung

type dual sim into ebay / gumtree you will get plenty

MikeWhite

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

My main concern would be the benefit in kind issue, could be costly.

Should be OK:

You don’t have to report anything to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) or deduct and pay tax and National Insurance if both the following apply:

you provide your employee with only one mobile phone or SIM card
the phone contract is between you and the supplier