It's a concept that is quickly gaining grip within corporates as a way to give employees the freedom to choose the devices they use on a daily basis because employees are demanding not only to use their own devices at work, but also to have more flexibility as well...
The rapid growth in Smartphone and tablet usage in people's personal lives, along with core and noncore applications available, has caused a massive shift on employee’s behavior. Employees are much more particular about deices they use and carry on a daily basis. They no longer want a work device that focuses specifically on email, or a personal device that can't access the information they need. They want one device to handle everything – work/personal email, company apps, watching movies, listening to music, playing games, share pictures, using Facebook/Twitter.
One of the surveys report says more than 39 percent of college students and employees said they would accept a lower-paying job that had more flexibility with regard to device choice and mobility than a higher-paying job with less flexibility.
After seeing these kinds of demands we need comprehensive approach that unifies policy and supports a better user experience and simplifies management to deliver an uncompromised user experience in any workspace.
“BYOD” is not just about connecting user-owned devices and allowing guest access. Beyond that we have to think for monitoring, Access management, how many points and how many clients can have access, allow flexible, scalable wireless network that can support higher capacities while lowering operational costs.
Taking a 360’ view of the overall scenario, I feel that it would be somewhat unjust to put a check on employees bringing their own devices at workplace; rather organization should call on for better and strict monitoring and user access management policies for ensuring a more secured and better control over the” BYOD” concept…
