The claim is that Google wiped her personal phone.
Furthermore, companies like Google have worked hard to blur the lines between their employees' personal and professional lives. I'm not particularly sympathetic to them suddenly drawing hard boundaries when it benefits them.
When you add a GSuite account to your android phone, you have 2 options: (1) Add it so it as full access to the device, or (2) use "Work profile" when adding it.
Yup, there's no such thing as work profiles on iOS, and iOS MDM does have the technical facility to let an MDM owner wipe the device. (Obviously the user has to consent to it, but there's a lot of social pressure to say yes / to trust that your employer won't abuse this ability.)
Also I think that there are Android models that don't support a separate work profile.
It's pretty easy to say 'no, I will not connect my personal phone to the corporate network in exchange for allowing my employer to remotely manage my personal phone'.
Get a second company phone like anyone with a sliver of opsec intelligence does.
No, I'd rather blame the world for my ignorance and expect them to pick up the tab on that bill. /s
Many years ago ago, at my first tech job, the employer provided a smart phone as part of work/on call responsibilities. (This was still around the era when smart phones were just blossoming as useful devices). Every other employee there decided to use their company phone as both their personal and professional device, while I opted out for what are very obvious reasons. I had my phone and I had the company phone; the latter was only on my person when professionally necessary.
It was common sense then, and it's common sense now. You always keep professional and personal assets separate.
(Fun fact worth noting: not too long ago the company decided to either boot personal usage of company devices, or stop providing those phones altogether. Can't say that I didn't warn them.)
Furthermore, companies like Google have worked hard to blur the lines between their employees' personal and professional lives. I'm not particularly sympathetic to them suddenly drawing hard boundaries when it benefits them.