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Sure, but you send out an Email warning people first. There's no reason to wipe people's devices unless they are willfully defying policy, and even then, you've
by xpaulbettsx 16y ago
Sure, but you send out an Email warning people first. There's no reason to wipe people's devices unless they are willfully defying policy, and even then, you've got a list of the people doing it - just go to their office and talk to them in person (involve their manager if needed).
Wiping a personal device to "send a message" is passive-aggressive and totally destructive to morale.
- dedward 16y agoIt's also quite likely completely illegal - warning or not. It's a personal device - the company has no rights to it.
- jodrellblank 16y agoThen it has no business being borged into the corporate IT system of a company which demands rigorous enough control of data to use remote device wipe.
- jarek 16y agoYou handed the company rights to it when you added it to the Exchange domain. The only issue at hand is whether a phone should be more explicit in telling you doing this will hand IT complete control of the device.
- 16s 16y agoThey typed "AGREE" to the policy on day one when they were hired. IT is 2000 miles away. No one from IT is going to visit their office. They are going to wipe the device per corporate policy.
- jrockway 16y agoThey have the right to do that, perhaps, but it's still not very nice. People don't do good work when their employer is mean to them, regardless of what they signed. What is your "destroying potentially confidential data" is their "leaving to improve your competitor's product while you spend nine months trying to find a replacement". Balance is the key.