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Tips and Ideas
by Alex
These days, employers provide their employees with a variety of devices from which to complete their work, from smartphones to laptops and even tablets. If you’ve been provided with an employer-issued device, your company’s IT department will usually set up login information for you, along with a selection of important apps that you’ll need to complete your daily work tasks, and anything else necessary for you to successfully do your job. After a while, you might want to start adjusting the device slightly to suit your own preferences, such as uploading a screen saver from your personal photographs, logging into your Spotify account and checking social media now and then. However, cybersecurity experts advise against combining your personal and professional lives into one device; nearly two-thirds of IT professionals believe that several high-profile breaches were caused by careless employees, who may not have even realized the impact of their actions. So, here are some things that you should never do on a work-issued device.