Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017

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Half of all employers will require workers to supply their own mobile devices (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238832/BYOD_or_else._Companies_will_soon_require_that_wor kers_use_their_own_smartphone_on_the_job) for work purposes by 2017, according to a new Gartner study. Enterprises that offer only corporately-owned smartphones or stipends to buy your own will soon become the exception to the rule in the next few years. As enterprise BYOD programs proliferate, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016 and let them use their own, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner. At the same time, security remains the top BYOD concern. 'What happens if you buy a device for an employee and they leave the job a month later? How are you going to settle up? Better to keep it simple. The employee owns the device, and the company helps to cover usage costs,' said David Willis, a distinguished analyst at Gartner

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