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I've never understood why people started subscribing to work email on their personal phones to begin with. Why would you want to get work mail when you're not at work, and why would you want to use your own hardware to do it? I've never done that and nobody I've worked for has ever asked me to do that; my personal phone is for my personal communication.

I had similar feelings until I realized that work would pay for my monthly cellular bill (including data roaming while abroad).

Solid advice. So glad I did this a few years ago. I was spending way too much fragmented time pulling my phone out every time I got an e-mail. Then if it wasn't something I needed to deal with right now, I often forgot about it (and never responded).

Now I only use e-mail on my laptop. I do have it installed on my phone, but it is only used when a real priority comes up.

I've started doing this recently and it's improved my quality of life outside work enormously.