Originally Posted by
scalemaster34 After reading....
Seems the reason it cost more is that they were just giving out too much of a "stipend".
I've seen companies give $200 a month and I've seen them only give $40 a month. Let's face it, in this day and age in the US the majority of people currently own a smartphone, so it's not like 10 years ago when if you didn't supply one, your employee wasn't going to have one.
I had high hopes for BlackBerry Balance... was a perfect way to segregate personal and work. And allow people to just carry one device. Maybe what we needed was a BlackBerry Balance that operated with a dual sim??
Either way, this get solved by reducing the amounts given to employees, not by moving back to employer supplied devices.
True, but it's the first chink in the BYOD shining armour. This is really a matter of shoddy bookeeping, but an enterprising IT manager in conjunction with a sympathetic Finance Director can use this to build a case against it.
See, I love various devices for my personal use, but I've never made any bones that I think BYOD is a mistake AND that I prefer BlackBerry for secure agencies. As I (possibly) leave IT, it's good to see something that vindicates my position.