BYOD

Employers are abuzz about a new acronym being discussed at the water cooler—“BYOD.”  No, it doesn’t have anything to do with parties or beverages.  It stands for “Bring Your Own Device,” and it signals the movement by employees to use their own cutting edge electronic devices at work.It sounds like a great idea.  An employee who is tech savvy gets a new device—iPad, Smartphone, laptop—and wants to use it for work projects to be more efficient or to work remotely.  Or even to ease the pain of juggling so many different electronic devices.   So why not just hook them up to the network?  That’s what many employers are doing.  And they are doing so without thinking first and certainly, without[…]