Bring Your Own Device to Work: The Pros and Cons for a Multinational

Rapid advances in communications technology available to consumers has meant that employees often have far greater private access to sophisticated technology than they do in the workplace. Is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) – permitting employees to bring personal laptops, tablets, and smartphones to work, and to use their devices to access company information a sensible policy? In theory, organizations benefit, in practice this presents many problems. This Idea uses a case study of a particular multi-national organization to see its response to this question.