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Can a 'Bring Your Own' Device policy make sense for your company?
Seven questions to ask to see if your firm is ready to let its employees use their own laptops and smartphones at work.
By Eric Lai, Senior Writer, Sybase
Before the Industrial Revolution, European and American workers were commonly expected to bring their own tools to work.
Now, corporations are starting to implement 'Bring Your Own' policies for employees' laptops and smartphones.
While one was an inhumane, soon-to-be-antiquated practice, the other is being praised as progressive and worker-friendly.
What's the difference?
In the old days, no tools meant: 'Sorry buddy, no job'.
These days, some companies are actually helping pay for workers to choose gear of their own fancy, rather than issuing them the same generic, unsexy hardware as before.
Take remote access vendor Citrix Systems Inc. Its 3,500 employees are allotted up to $2,100 towards snagging the laptop of their choice.
Other companies, including Sybase, are picking up the monthly bills of employees' personal smartphones used for work.
A laptop typically gets replaced every 3 years, while a voice+unlimited data plan for an iPhone in the U.S. runs about $1,000 a year. That makes the latter offer far more generous.
It's not just IT companies with a vested interest in 'Bring Your Own' that are doing this.
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