Breaking Business Barriers: Consumerization Benefits Include Reduced Costs, Higher Productivity Discussion

As more workers elect to bring their own devices into the workplace, traditional business IT gives way to a new norm in technology selection and support.

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I don't like where this is going...

Sure, with your typical office worker, I probably wouldn't mind BYOD. But if we're talking about the medical industry or the financial industry, I hope that they have enough sense not to allow workers to take home that sort of protected data. Or even their login keys to corporate servers (too many people are lazy and will just have their browser save the login credentials).

As a college student myself, those two out of five are just... stupid. Period. You're giving up financial gain for BYOD and so they can play on Facebook from work? Gheez... if I was in HR I would turn them down if they gave me those reasons. And what do they mean by "mobility"?

 

You'd be surprised how many medical residents are already using their own tablets, netbooks, etc. to jot down notes when doing rounds. It's already commonplace, even with HIPAA restrictions and such.

 

This makes me wonder how many hours of Angry Birds get billed as "Research" every year.

 

You can view Angry birds as "meditation" to prepare for high intensity work

 

At work, we already have to take our laptop home to do work, and on business travel (we get a special encryption key if we take it to a "red zone"). I'm guessing these are the types of places where BYOD is being introduced (we have been talking about it for years). This isn't for government employees that are supposed to leave work at work, or financial institutions. Bloombergs sets all USB keys to read-only upon sticking them into a work computer, keylogs everything you type, and knows all emails and attachments you send out. They would not be fine with you BYODing...

I concur. I carry two laptops on business travel. My work, and my personal. It's a pain in the , but if I'm being paid an extra 5 grand, I'll spend 1 on a personal laptop and enjoy the other 4. I would love to have a dual-HDD laptop as my BYOD, but at the same time, considering the list of things I'm not allowed to do on my work laptop now, I'd rather have a full separation from my work.

Who knows if me booting into the second, person, partition of my BYOD to rant about my boss will actually be logged...