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Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-your-own dept.

Lucas123 writes "Half of all employers will require workers to supply their own mobile devices for work purposes by 2017, according to a new Gartner study. Enterprises that offer only corporately-owned smartphones or stipends to buy your own will soon become the exception to the rule in the next few years. As enterprise BYOD programs proliferate, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016 and let them use their own, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner. At the same time, security remains the top BYOD concern. 'What happens if you buy a device for an employee and they leave the job a month later? How are you going to settle up? Better to keep it simple. The employee owns the device, and the company helps to cover usage costs,' said David Willis, a distinguished analyst at Gartner."

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  1. Video of Bagram 747 crash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is so sad, and scary. Perhaps the cargo shifted, causing the weight to slide to the back of the plane?

    1. Re:Video of Bagram 747 crash by Chrisq · · Score: -1, Troll

      Huh? Are you talking about this? I'm sure they'll retrieve the black boxes and figure it out. This is a fully modern aircraft that crashed on land.

      Maybe the pilot was a Muzzy