I created the BYOD program at the large, international bank I work. Fact was at that time, everyone carried two devices: one Blackberry and their own personal smartphone.
When I created the program I showed the bank how they could save $4.25 million dollars a year by eliminating the bank paid for blackberry devices and paying a monthly stipend of $10-$20 to each BYOD user to pay for upgrading data or voice plans and avoid overages to their personal bills.
Instead, our bank got greedy and decided they wanted to save the full $4.6 million dollars and give BYOD users ZERO in a monthly stipend towards their monthly smartphone bills to offset cost.
I hope this ruling comes back to bite the bank I work for's ass. Would serve the stupid, greedy bastards right. It wasn't enough to save $4.25 million/year, no. They wanted the whole $4.6 million and SCREW the employees too.
I hope they get screwed back by this.
I bet top execs got phones. I worked a company which cut all cell phones below director level regardless if the employee was customer facing. They sent an email out touting the employee discount program with a carrier- this translated to pay your own bill. A few of us took the position if you don't pay for a phone, don't call me a home for help. Shortly after implementation, a major customer needed a late night order and nobody was available by phone to release the order. The customer took the relationship elsewhere and in one year the company lost in profits 50 years of cell phone savings!
Looks like it may only apply to CA? I don’t know.
Suggest you print out the ruling info and anonymously send it to someone up the line, who will be very nervous about it. Perhaps some type of class action? Seems the bank should be providing the smart phones and phone service, if they expect the employees to use them for work tasks.
what did they do with employees that didn’t have their own device? Fire them if they didn’t get one?
I was the guy who made that decision. Saves our company a cool 350,000/annum.