Another First World Problem rears its ugly head.
How do you break down the time you are conducting Business on your “personal” Phone with Unlimited Talk and Text?
As my Late Mother always said, some people have way too much time on their hands.
If you don’t own a Cell Phone it’s a different story. If you do, it’s usually 100% better than the one an Employer would provide you in the first place.
Just my $.02, and this is what ties up our Court System.
Exactly right. That was the point behind the BYOD program I created and implemented where I work. Everyone who had a smartphone hated having to carry a blackberry for work.
The problem with our BYOD implementation was the bank's "leadership" stripped out the renumeration/monthly stipend part I'd put in because they got greedy. With the stipend, the bank would've saved $4.25 million. Without the stipend it was $4.6 million.
It's funny because I forwarded the article above to my Senior Management as soon as I read it on here, I already received a response that they're aware of the ruling as of last week and are already "investigating" creating a monthly stipend program -- which is what I told them to do in the first place.
Dummies.
The worst part for me personally was not getting the $5k "award" for creating a cost savings program for the bank that saved more than $250k/year. The bastards screwed me out of that by claiming the program they implemented was "different" because they didn't include the stipend. Every other detail of "their plan" was identical to what I'd proposed.
Like I said above: I cannot wait for this to bite them in the ass.
One last thing: I will not take any "monthly stipend" for my cellphone from my employer. Doing so obligates me to answer the phone when they call.
Not gonna do it.
Bring your own device creates all kinds of problems.
Get a personal device infected with malware, they may pick up company info, too.
Bring your own device blurs the line between personal and professional, meaning companies have fewer qualms with calling you on the way home or you making personal calls at work.
Try enforcing a “no porn/defamatory comments” type policy when people use their own device.
Hope you don’t work for a defense contractor and accidentally read proprietary and classified information on a personal device. It gets confiscated and wiped. A hassle with a work computer, a major personal setback if it is your personal device.