eID at home and at work

Do you need to use your personal eID at work?
Your electronic ID, eID, such as Swedish BankID is a personal eID and can be used both at home and at work.

There are many places in the community where the private meets the public. Some examples:

• The person who collects registered mail sent to a company will show their personal ID card.
• To sign in to the Swedish Tax Agency to declare VAT on behalf of a company, a personal eID is used.

What does an eID certify?
When applying for an eID, the provider (e.g. a bank, a telecom company or the government) confirms your identity. The eID contains your name and national identity number.

The most commonly used eID in Sweden, Swedish BankID, does not contain information about someone's employment or role in a company.In order to ensure that a person is working on the company it claims, you have to use other methods.

In some other countries, information about a persons roles in a company is available in the eID itself.