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Workers don’t know employers can see their work...

Workers don’t know employers can see their work email on their mobile phones, said a MobileIron survey released Wednesday (http://bit.ly/12VYoGx). Of the 84 percent of respondents who own a smartphone and 82 percent of tablet users who use their devices…

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for work purposes, 41 percent of respondents were sure their employer couldn’t see any information on their mobile device and 15 percent weren’t sure, the survey found. Respondents were most concerned with their employer seeing their personal communications and 48 percent of respondents found location a concern. People 18-34 years old were less comfortable with their employer seeing their data than people over 55 years old, the survey found. Employers can see corporate email, attachments and contacts on mobile devices, but they can’t see personal email, texts and information in apps. Vision Critical conducted an online survey of 2,997 randomly selected adults from the U.K., U.S. and Germany in June.