Workers Bring Their Own Computers to Work
Miami Based Software Company, Citix systems Inc, is rolling out a new programme that will allow employees to get their own computers to work. This initiative is called BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer). The company plans to give their employees a stipend of $2,100 to get a laptop of their own choice, with whatever specs they think will be beneficial for their kind of work, and with a three year service plan.
The company is happy with the idea of having personal laptops, but has given clear instructions that the computer system should be a MAC or Windows based only with licensed anti-virus software running on them. The company’s idea behind the whole thing is to move all the technology purchasing and maintenance responsibilities to the employees itself; moreover; people love this idea of having a single device for both personal and professional/work use.
Not everything is good about the implementation of this program though, as the company is still unsure about the safety of their confidential data on employee’s personal computers. Certain measures suggest that the company is opting for virtualization of most of programs such as SAP and Microsoft Exchange for which the employees have to login remotely to work. This means that the data will remain safe and will reside on company monitored and protected servers.
We’ll have to wait and watch to learn how much the company is going to save with this initiative. Citrix officials say, “We Spend around $2,500 to $2,600 to buy and maintain a PC for each employee”. Costs benefits apart, this seems like a good HR ploy to adopt as well, because it encourages individuality and reduces the chances of employees complaining about hardware to almost nothing. If this initiative turns out to be successful, many other organizations will also follow suit and hopefully improve their situation with employee computers.
Tags: Computers, laptop, mac, windows
November 18th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Have they considered the risk of the employees kids installing all sorts of unwanted bloatware that will grind the laptop to a halt.