SMB News From NetworkWorld: IT Budget Solution – Let Employees Bring Their Own
IT departments often don’t like the idea of employees using their own gear and connecting it to the office network but more and more companies are finding that letting them do it is one way to avoid IT costs.
“If your business faces spiralling IT costs, how about this for a plan: Get employees to purchase their own equipment. No, this isn’t a federal government initiative, but it is becoming increasingly popular around the country.
It’s driven by the desires of workers to use their own and often cutting-edge consumer hardware, such as smartphones and tablet computers. Corporate IT tends not to favor these devices, perhaps because IT departments can be very conservative, although the fact such hardware is very expensive can’t help.”