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Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs?

Posted by Zonk on from the hairy-question dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Is letting users manage their own PCs an IT time-saver or time bomb waiting to happen? 'In this Web 2.0 self-service approach, IT knights employees with the responsibility for their own PC's life cycle. That's right: Workers select, configure, manage, and ultimately support their own systems, choosing the hardware and software they need to best perform their jobs.'" Do any of you do something similar to this in your workplace? Anyone think this is a spectacularly bad idea?

2 of 559 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Clueful, Clueless and those in-between by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    who the fuck gave this woman root access?

  2. Re:Clueful, Clueless and those in-between by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And more importantly, why the fuck isn't she in the kitchen making sandwiches for us?