[lowbloodsugar]

Don’t you guys have phones that screen calls?

[Symbiote]

My colleagues regularly get calls from nurseries, daycare, parents at the after school club, friends of their children or their parents and so on.

They can probably ignore international calls, although only probably.

[matltc]

Yes, but false negatives fall through. I don't pay for the call screening; maybe a paid version would be more successful.

Mostly ignore unknown numbers, but if I'm expecting a call, I will pick up.

[rationalist]

Yep, if the number is not in my comtacts, it goes straight to voicemail.

[dredmorbius]

Because Reasons I'm looking at several feature-phone / dumbphone options.

One feature that's conspicuously missing from many of these is "unknown call block" or equivalent.

Which is completely staggering to me.

I'm looking at other options, including VOIP / SIP Trunking, where it should in theory be possible to incorporate any arbitrarily complex call-screening feature(s), though Further Research is Needed.

Android / iOS phones typically have several available options for call screening. Unfortunately they include numerous other issues and negatives.

Sigh.