BYOD goes far beyond IT questions. Most often we view BYOD policies as something initiated and overseen by IT. But that misses the broad-ranging impact of BYOD across several other functions in an organization, particularly the human resource function. A quickly or poorly developed BYOD policy can [...]
BYOD: The fine print matters BYOD is the acronym for Bring Your Own Device to Work where “device” can refer to a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Most frequently, however, the BYOD issue arises over the use of mobile phones. As it became more common for everyone around the start of the 2000s to [...]
BYOD and Reimbursement Policies There is a great deal of discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of the policy of allowing employees to use their own mobile devices, primarily smartphones, instead of employer-issued devices that are to be used solely for work purposes. However, while this [...]
BYOD and Federal Wage laws: Look out! As most everyone knows, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an approach wherein organizations allow their employees to use their own smartphones and other devices in lieu of company-provided equipment. It provides convenience to employees interested in not having [...]
These days, it seems like your entire business is run on a computer. From email to filing information, everything you do is kept on your work desktop and stored on the company network. So what happens if the network gets hacked? As you can imagine, nothing good. A hacked network can mean deleted or [...]
When you’re looking for an IT service provider, a lot of terms get thrown around that don’t always make sense. Sometimes they’re highly technical, and sometimes they just don’t mean anything close to what you expected. The term “virtualization” is one of those words. It’s a very [...]
Network security is probably one of the most crucial aspects of protecting your important business data and information, but it’s also a little tricky to figure out by yourself. There’s all kinds of tools out there, free and otherwise, and the technical lingo can be pretty difficult to [...]