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The work challenge is essentially a secondary passcode to access the work profile. In legacy management this would effectively be a container passcode, and is in essence the same thing.
When a device is deployed as a company owned work profile (COPE) or personally owned work profile (BYOD) device, a secondary profile is created on the device known as a work profile. This is where all corporate apps and data reside on the device, and is fully isolated and separately encrypted on the device.

Unless explicitly set, the work profile doesn't have any additional authentication required, allowing an end-user to open work applications on the device as desired.

A work challenge is what Google call the passcode applied to the work profile that shares most of the same policies associated with a device passcode policy. It can be applied in the following ways:
- For devices with no device passcode set, as the only passcode required on the device, and only prompted when work apps are opened.
- For devices with a passcode set, to share the device passcode between the device and the work profile (when unlocking the device, the work profile also unlocks).
- For devices with a passcode set, to require a unique passcode for the work profile, requiring additional authentication when work apps are opened.

Here's an example of a work challenge policy requiring a unique passcode on a device:

![Example work challenge policy](/image/Screenshot_2023-05-14_09.12.32.png)
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