Using Personal Devices for Work (and Vice Versa)

Legal Brief

EVER FIND YOURSELF attending a videoconference on your work laptop while using your personal phone to reply to work emails and text your family? Probably sounds like a standard workday to many.

We don’t often consider the legal entanglements of this scenario. The collapse of barriers between home and office has implications for the use of personal devices — our smartphones, tablets, PCs and laptops. Conventional wisdom suggests you use school district-owned devices for work communications and the devices you own for personal communications. But what if you get your wires crossed?

Ask yourself a few questions to untangle those lines.