[KozmoNau7]

My employer provides a work phone and subscription, and I am free to use it privately. I've chosen to keep that phone work-only, so I have bought my own private phone+subscription, and never the twain shall meet.

The work phone gets left in a locker at work along with my work laptop, I refuse to bring it home with me until I have agreed in advance to work from home for some specific task. I know a lot of employers expect their employees to be available at odd hours, but I refuse to participate in that.

I made this decision after suffering under a boss who would call and email at 22:00 and expect results to be ready on his table next morning by 8:00.

Only a very select trusted few of my colleagues have my private phone number, and they will only ever use it in a dire emergency.

[skinnymuch]

Are you not friends with any work colleagues who would want to call or text you as friends?

[KozmoNau7]

No, not really. I do have some "favorite colleagues" who I enjoy working with and chatting about this and that over lunch, but they're colleagues, not friends.

My circle of friends is entirely separate from work, there is no overlap, which is just fine by me. I prefer keeping work and my personal life separate.