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Workers Working An Extra 20 Hours a Week Thanks To BYOD
Qedward writes with the apparent downside of bring-your-own-device policies. From the article: "Many employees are working up to 20 additional hours per week unpaid as a result of bring your own device (BYOD) policies adopted by their firms, many of which have no security safeguards. According to the quarterly Mobile Workforce Report from enterprise Wi-Fi access firm iPass, a third of mobile enterprise workers never fully disconnect from technology during their during personal time The report also said that 92% of mobile workers 'enjoy their job flexibility' and are 'content' with working longer hours. In fact, said the report, 42% would like 'even greater flexibility for their working practices.' But 19% of mobile workers said their companies did not require security on smartphones or tablets to access work data."
Occasionally glancing at your cellphone while getting black out drunk with your idiot friends doesn't sound like work to me...
People keep losing their identity due to *how* computers have pushed society's evolution. We're all numbers now but not because that's how authorities preferred it. It's done out of necessity. There's simply too many people on earth anymore and the use of computers is always seen as a means to match this. Obviously, this bleeds down into our everyday jobs and because of this, is always taken a step further--especially by those who have no understanding of what some people are expected to do with their machines (i.e. - developers). Point being here is that this "extra work" is nothing new... Unfortunately. It has nothing to do with BYOD and everything to do with seeing people as tools instead of individuals.
If "did not require security" didn't make any sense to you, you're not alone. It looks like they actually meant "did not use our magic tiger-repelling-rock based product". The whole "report" is a slashvertizement.
Two excellent books which made me question why I had my email pushed to me, notifications popping up, looked at work email before I went to bed and so on. Switching email to "pull" (both work and personal, both mobile and computer), not having work email enabled on my phone unless I actually needed it, and minimising distractions ("silent" on my phone means no vibrations either — no distractions), I've found that I get a lot more done in a given period of time (may sound silly, but "Getting Things Done" did a lot for me here, too), and am generally more relaxed.
I'm a huge fan of being connected, but this experience has made me realise I truly value having connectivity available when I want it, rather than letting things rule me.
But 19% of mobile workers said their companies did not require security on smartphones or tablets to access work data.
Somehow I don't think 19% of mobile workers can tell the difference between http and https access to their corporate webmail, much less the intricacies of imap on port 143 vs imaps on port 993
Asking them is about as wise as asking the average man on the street if his blood is RH positive or RH negative and then basing your blood bank inventory plan on their random choices. I'm guessing the average moron would assume RH is a disease so you'd skew negative, but the actual population is mostly positive (exact value depending on where you live)
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The report also said that 92% of mobile workers 'enjoy their job flexibility' and are 'content' with working longer hours
Well done, what a great way to undermine your own wage and working conditions.
The time I wasted on my Bring Your Own Device's applications instead of working. 12 hours a day are my new norm (and leave the weekends for myself).
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Its the blurring of lines of what is work time and what is private time due to the always connected world we have become addicted to. When your "master" can summon you 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, no matter where you are.. guess what.. they will.
Its called my brain, and trust me, worrying about that bullshit when I leave the building should count as "additional hours".
Gee Wiz. When IT stops putting up obsticals, people can actually get work accomplished. Who'd of thunk it.
On their private devices during employer paid time.
Sorry, but I work less with a BYOD requirement. IF you are too cheap to buy me an iPad you require, then I am going to screw off using that ipad during work hours.
Also Work more at home? I dont even answer the bosses phone calls in the parking lot 3 minutes after I leave.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I don't do BYOD in my business. I in fact encourage my employees NOT to work on their own time. Having adequate time with work out of focus makes them happier and more productive when they are at work.
But 19% of mobile workers said their companies did not require security on smartphones or tablets to access work data."
Of course not, that would eat in to IT's youtube time!
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How much time does the average worker spend on personal things while at work? Checking personal email, personal phone calls, surfing the web and playing games during non-break time? They may not consume 20 hours of work time doing these things, but they are being done.
Maybe you won't have to bring your work home with you if you do your work while at work.
--- Keep the choice with the user..
Users never seem to be able to see past their noses when wanting to use personal gadgetry for work.
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When it becomes trendy to work long hours, employers start to require it. Then, I have to work those same long hours, because there are no jobs where a proper work/life balance is respected.
Thanks a lot, you damn busybodies!
They should just be honest and call it MARFYOB.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
How do you propose to keep company data private?
If you have a work-issued machine, the lines are clear: Work stuff is on the work phone/laptop/whatever, and it's password protected. Home stuff is on your device.
If it's BYOD, and Junior wants to play games on you iPhone, you just handed him a device that has your work stuff on it. If it's your own device, it's much more likely to be less protected and touched by more hands than a work device.
All those stories on the /. frontpage about credit card numbers stolen? They start with little leaks, and then the attacker wiggles his way in.
BYOD is a disaster.
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Bullshit.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
checking FB, slashdot, etc etc
Okay im going to assume this is in jobs where you are not being paid hourly (since the Wolves at the DOL find extra hours without extra pay "interesting")
1 are companies actually paying for the extra "on call" time?
2 do they also realize that your response time may be impaired if you can't stop and sit down to do X?
3 are they just using this to comp for "dead times"?
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I've been on call since last October.
I get $50/week for it.
It's kind of lame.
I wasn't able to start taking vacation again until about 3 months ago, and even then I was required to always be in cell coverage areas, within 10min of an internet connection and carry a company laptop with me at all times. I once had to remote in from a pontoon boat while tethered to my cellphone.
What the hey 20 hours...
If you are part time that takes you to full time.
If you are full time that is a 60 hour week and
should be getting compensation for the hours
beyond 40. It is the rare person that is truly
exempt from overtime if the boss calls at random
time to see if you answer in a sliding 12 hour
window.
Keep a call log.... normal bills will do. If the boss is
calling and checking on you he is in effect posting extended hours and
you should be compensated. If he leaves a demand
for prompt action outside of normal business hours....
The dam OCD fast twitch caffeine over loaded ADD kids that so quickly
get into middle management will cost the company good employees
or big bucks. They look at their smart phone like a Gameboy
and your are some little sprite gathering power points and gold coins
for them.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
I wouldn't "happily" work more if I were making salary. Salary is based on a 40 hour work week. So by the end of the year the overs and unders should average 40 hours a week. Most companies don't see it that way. It's just a way to get around labor laws.
Since I get paid by the hour I work as much as I need to. I have a couple clients that want to make me salary and I'm going with "no" on that. Working from home, making my own hours and having a direct correlation between time and money seems to be ideal. Right now I can't go over 40 a week with a particular client because it would be time and a half by state law where he's at. Somehow, I don't think that would be a concern if I were salary. That's just business. So I do business differently.
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Disable work email from my personal devices, redirect unknown phone numbers to voicemail (including "unknown" phone numbers), block news sites by way of adblock on my computers, shut down my computer when not in use (so I think twice about turning it back on), cancel cable service, put my cellphone on vibrate, go for walks, do some physical labor, engage in hobbies that mix what I enjoy with something physical like robotics. I am more relaxed during my personal time by disconnecting from the outside world and focusing on something outside of my mind (something that is not conceptual or virtual). There is definitely something about balancing personal and interpersonal time and internal and external engagements to create a healthy existence.
some places have the walmart attitude of no OT and work off the clock to get it done.
Even hourly contract jobs some times have the don't even thing about putting down OT hours.
If you are using it at home, isn't it Keep your Own Device?
Latest? Actually, if you want to be the "latest" you should send your email at exactly 8:01 AM.
One of the things that sort of nutty about email is the earlier emails get read last, just because of the sorting.
If you send a series of emails in which you patiently explain a bunch of things, and then in the following emails, you go into detail on some of those subjects, your readers will get the detail emails first (in their sorting).
Reading those will make them go "Huh?".
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Not so much for Apple
Why would you interrupt the reason you work for more work.
Family.
They are the only people in the world that will care about you when you can't work any more. If you are carrying a phone for work you are doing it to feel needed.
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