this is fucked up and bullshit and one of my pet peeves: employers should not be demanding you use your personal communications equipment.
https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/115215401541166467
if you do, you should be able to easily deduct that as a job expense, but that would entail for workers to know all the convoluted tax codes.
this sacking of his wife after 25 years and remotely disabling her phone is purely abusive βthe exact sort of sadism and stochastic violence that fascists have been encouraging at scale.