{"id":1825,"date":"2019-11-05T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cortadoblog1.wpengine.com\/android-work-profile-setup-benefits\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T10:21:18","slug":"android-work-profile-setup-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cortado.com\/en\/android-work-profile-setup-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Android Work Profile & Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Android work profile is easily created on a work phone. We look at its main advantages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Working on the go is more secure and user-friendly with the Android work profile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What Is the Android Work Profile? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Android work profile is excellent way for you to integrate personal and company-owned smartphones or tablets into your workplace. Android offers a lot of flexibility on how to create them too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One option is a BYOD scheme (Bring Your Own Device) which makes a great company incentive. Organizations typically offer their employees a subsidy on contract costs and\/or the price of a device in return for being able to be partially manage the device with the Android work profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being able to (partially!) manage the employee\u2019s smartphone or tablet has many advantages. To name just one, sensitive corporate data is more easily protected as private data is separated from business data. This prevents personal apps, like WhatsApp, from being able to access work-based contact information<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on this, take a look at what to expect from a company BYOD project<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work and personal apps are clearly separated in the Android work profile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Clearest Division of Work and Personal Data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Android work profile marks off which apps on the employee\u2019s device are fully managed by the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data separation on Android devices looks different to how it would on an Apple device. Users see a work profile, and this approach makes BYOD particularly attractive to end users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a recognizable blue suitcase next to each managed work app, it provides the clearest form of division between work and personal information, much more so than currently possible with an iPhone, which prefers to separate data behind the scenes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extra little touches, like how app recommendations on the personal app store are not altered by work app downloads, or separate work\/personal notifications, further enhance this feeling of having two personas on the device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the key feature that ensures that businesses can fulfill their mobility requirements and achieve a strong ROI on BYOD<\/a><\/strong>, whilst end-users reap financial rewards, enjoy an organized and productivity-boosting work phone and incur no infringements on their privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Android Work Profile Privacy \u2013 New End User Improvements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Recent updates have focussed on Android work profile privacy for the user in particular. In Android 11, Google enabled an “enhanced” version of the Android work profile. This can be set up on company-owned devices and ensures that admins cannot see which personal apps are being used by the user. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Create an Android Work Profile<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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