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Want a job? BYOD or Buh-bye.
- kls 15y agoI am actually fine with this requirement so long as it is not dictated to me what I use. It would actually be liberating to use my own equipment for some jobs over using a corporate desktop. Especially considering I favor UNIX based systems. I think most in the industry already own a personal laptop and smartphone. I think it is economical of a company to leverage that reality. With the reservation mentioned above, if I supply it then it is mine and I decide which environment that I use.
- blakdawg 15y agoI don't think this will become widespread. As an employer, I don't want to have to support a variety of hardware/software/OS combinations which might be provided by employees; I don't want to depend on employees to maintain their equipment appropriately; and I don't want to create a circumstance where my data is sitting on hardware I don't own, especially if the owner is someone I've just fired or who's just been hired by a competitor. The cost of a computer or a cellphone is tiny next to the cost of an employee - I really don't see much win in this idea for anything but tiny companies or a few isolated examples.