Bring Your Own Device Policy Analysis
The Impact of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy
University of Maryland University College
Introduction to Writing
March 9, 2014
In the modern world, several businesses and organizations support an ironically traditional style of work. An employee wakes up on the morning of a workday, pours their cup of Joe, goes off to work, and sits down at their office desk and starts up the computer owned by the company in which they are employed. However, a new initiative, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy has plans to alter this long held work tradition, namely, the structure of the workplace. The BYOD initiative proposes that in a modern and technologically diverse world, employees should now have the responsibility to trek their own …show more content…
Ninety-six percent of consumers have researched a product or service on their device, and thirty-five percent have made a purchase on their phone (Ansaldi, 2013). This trend between smartphone and consumer has raised the idea that the workforce should also follow suit in order to adjust to the habits of modern employees when they have been removed from the workplace. The entire idea surrounding BYOD holds that people become so attached to their personal devices that they prefer their own technology to foreign technology. The use of one’s own technology, as a result, would cause employees to be more productive all whereas they ensure the safety and upkeep of their personal work-related devices. Heralding back to vast use of smartphones to access the internet, most employees send e-mails and produce work-related documents while being off of work (they may or may not be using their smartphones to do this). A BYOD policy would only lessen the gap between job-related work that has been saved at home and job-related work saved on a company computer. Why not make things easier and have everything saved in one place? Companies see this trend as even greater an opportunity to implement BYOD programs, albeit with specific …show more content…
Certainly outclassing its predecessor, a BYOD workspace can become unified through the greater ease and access of work for its employees, the contentment of them, or even the greater cohesion of company productivity. While security risks and other modern dogma may scorn the technological revolution, employers will find it ignorant to reject the cost-saving and productive inducing effects of BYOD policies.
References
Ansaldi, H. (2013). Addressing the Challenges of the “Bring Your Own Device” Opportunity. CPA Journal, 63-65.
Belicove, M.E. (2013). “Risky Business. “ Entrepreneur 41, no. 12:62. Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost(accessed March 5, 2014).
BYOD Security Risks. (2012). Information Management Journal, 46 (5), 8.
Eddy, N. (2013). BYOD Policies to Bring 1 Billion Devices to Businesses by 2018. Eweek 5.
Ensure ‘Bring Your Own Device’ Doesn’t Become ‘Bring Your Own Disaster’. (2013). HR Focus, 90 (4), 9-10.
Florenza, P. (2013). Mobile Technology Forces Study of Bring Your Own Device. Public Manager, 42 (1),
University of Maryland University College
Introduction to Writing
March 9, 2014
In the modern world, several businesses and organizations support an ironically traditional style of work. An employee wakes up on the morning of a workday, pours their cup of Joe, goes off to work, and sits down at their office desk and starts up the computer owned by the company in which they are employed. However, a new initiative, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy has plans to alter this long held work tradition, namely, the structure of the workplace. The BYOD initiative proposes that in a modern and technologically diverse world, employees should now have the responsibility to trek their own …show more content…
Ninety-six percent of consumers have researched a product or service on their device, and thirty-five percent have made a purchase on their phone (Ansaldi, 2013). This trend between smartphone and consumer has raised the idea that the workforce should also follow suit in order to adjust to the habits of modern employees when they have been removed from the workplace. The entire idea surrounding BYOD holds that people become so attached to their personal devices that they prefer their own technology to foreign technology. The use of one’s own technology, as a result, would cause employees to be more productive all whereas they ensure the safety and upkeep of their personal work-related devices. Heralding back to vast use of smartphones to access the internet, most employees send e-mails and produce work-related documents while being off of work (they may or may not be using their smartphones to do this). A BYOD policy would only lessen the gap between job-related work that has been saved at home and job-related work saved on a company computer. Why not make things easier and have everything saved in one place? Companies see this trend as even greater an opportunity to implement BYOD programs, albeit with specific …show more content…
Certainly outclassing its predecessor, a BYOD workspace can become unified through the greater ease and access of work for its employees, the contentment of them, or even the greater cohesion of company productivity. While security risks and other modern dogma may scorn the technological revolution, employers will find it ignorant to reject the cost-saving and productive inducing effects of BYOD policies.
References
Ansaldi, H. (2013). Addressing the Challenges of the “Bring Your Own Device” Opportunity. CPA Journal, 63-65.
Belicove, M.E. (2013). “Risky Business. “ Entrepreneur 41, no. 12:62. Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost(accessed March 5, 2014).
BYOD Security Risks. (2012). Information Management Journal, 46 (5), 8.
Eddy, N. (2013). BYOD Policies to Bring 1 Billion Devices to Businesses by 2018. Eweek 5.
Ensure ‘Bring Your Own Device’ Doesn’t Become ‘Bring Your Own Disaster’. (2013). HR Focus, 90 (4), 9-10.
Florenza, P. (2013). Mobile Technology Forces Study of Bring Your Own Device. Public Manager, 42 (1),