One in ten workers use their own laptop at work

"current climate of cost containment, large enterprises are exploring all possibilities offered by alternative client computing architectures and device solutions"

Fully conversant in the language of Jargonese...

By greemble on 8 Dec 2009

43% - really?

"43% have specific policies that allow employees to use their own machines at work"

Do these companies have policies about how secure these machines have to be from malware? What level it has to be patched up to (or down to!) to ensure you can see the correct data in the company's financial system? What, shall we say, highly sensitive personal data (i.e. porn or pirated stuff), must not appear on your machine at work?

Or are they just trying to get kit on the free?

I'd be shocked if any of those 43% really did allow someone to bring in a machine off the street, off the wild internet, and plug it into their company's own, supposedly secure network, so I hope there's more to the 43% statistic than that simplistic statement.

By AdrianB on 8 Dec 2009

I'm one and I'm not happy about it

I am a government employee, sort of, I work on a school. I use my iPhone everyday for quick admin tasks and note taking, but I also use my own laptop at work because I find the laptops we are provided with frustrating to use, they are underpowered and sloooooow. I'm not the only one who thinks so but as far as I know I'm the only one who brings their own gear to work everyday. I just got tired of waiting 2mins olys to log on and ages for the programs to load. 512mb of RAM was unworkable for me. And no, I'm not just running office apps as I also use and demo various higher end apps in class.

As for network security, Network support is fine with me doing so as they know I'm savvy with the tech and the dangers and take sensible precautions.

Unfortunately, I dropped my laptop yesterday and damaged it. I don't suppose the school will pay for repairs though.

By mviracca on 8 Dec 2009

I'm one and I'm not happy about it

I am a government employee, sort of, I work on a school. I use my iPhone everyday for quick admin tasks and note taking, but I also use my own laptop at work because I find the laptops we are provided with frustrating to use, they are underpowered and sloooooow. I'm not the only one who thinks so but as far as I know I'm the only one who brings their own gear to work everyday. I just got tired of waiting 2mins olys to log on and ages for the programs to load. 512mb of RAM was unworkable for me. And no, I'm not just running office apps as I also use and demo various higher end apps in class.

As for network security, Network support is fine with me doing so as they know I'm savvy with the tech and the dangers and take sensible precautions.

Unfortunately, I dropped my laptop yesterday and damaged it. I don't suppose the school will pay for repairs though.

By mviracca on 8 Dec 2009

Aaargh!

Bleeding double posts, when is this going to get fixed?!

PS. I'm not really that bad at spelling but I was typing quickly on an iPhone so please no comments about teachers who can't spell etc.! Simply couldn't see my typos in the small comment box!

By mviracca on 8 Dec 2009

Laptops? I brought my own deskop in! My 4GB quad core with dual 24" is better than the 1.2Ghz Athlon XP with 256MB RAM I had before! :-D

@AdrianB - yes, the policies usually state active AV software; or the corporate AV software is installed on them.

Using Citrix means that it is pretty much irrelevant what software the user has installed, they spend their time working on a locked down client anyway.

By big_D on 9 Dec 2009