Unavoidable: Over 60 percent of companies to allow BYOD soon

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As more and more employees bring their personal smartphones, tablets and laptops to the office, or use them offsite as they take their work home, IT departments are grappling with the growing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.

This change in how people work and the devices they’re working on is leading to many IT departments setting BYOD guidelines to protect company security as employees access email and other potentially proprietary data on their own devices. By setting guidelines, access to data is controlled and productivity can be extended to these devices.

BYOD is both a menace as well as an essential. Hence there should be control as well as availability. Every person is unique and is comfortable with a particular device/brand of his own. As a company it can be a financial bomb to supply all employees with their own type of device. In such cases it is easier to let employees bring their own devices.

According to our research,The advantages of BYOD are as below

  • Shift costs to Employees: With Employees paying for all or a part of the costs for the hardware, voice or data services, and other associated expenses, companies save a lot of money. Maintenance costs are also shifted to the users.
  • Employees now work on devices that are comfortable with ,thereby increasing productivity and employee morale.
  • Employees upgrade to latest devices more often than large organizations where it is sometimes a painfully slow procedure.

Some of the reasons for not adopting BYOD is detailed below,

  • Security Concerns
    • Jail broken/Rooted devices
  • Compliance & Ownership of data :Businesses that fall under compliance mandates such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, or GLBA have certain requirements related to information security and safeguarding specific data.
  • Segregating and retrieving company data : in the event of employee leaving the company.
  • Companies also may not have the necessary skills to address problems with employees' personal devices and hence could cause the loss of productivity that might arise if these devices break down.
  • Licensing issues: Running an Enterprise software on tablets and client PCs , may lead to license claims for 2 versions of the client software, thus escalated costs for Licensing

Have a look at the research by Good Technologies

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