I've always thought that if your team are not coming into work complaining about how crap their home computer is compared to their work PC then you're not looking after your developers. I'm currently working from home Tuesdays and Thursdays (the boss thinks productivity is higher if you go dark, which I think has some merit). 30" monitor and 27.5" montior at home. 2 x 24" at work. Got a newer desktop at work than home... I did have to buy myself an SSD drive for my home PC to try to keep up with my work PC. :D Pertty cool idea people being able to bring their own machines to work. Downsides I can see, more people using laptops (possibly more future cases of workers comp from hunching over a laptop rather than eye level monitor?) and putting the responsibility of your hardware back on the worker. No car == no job, may become no laptop == no job.
Should help cut down situations where people are using 8 year old laptops to try to do their job. Man what a way to abuse your staff. unless they are contractors of course... (no no, it's ok. I'll take the 1Gb ram machine. ) On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Simon Haigh <smha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not as exciting as it sounds. Definately not going to be be a open > slather policy about bringing your favourite device to work and plugging it > into the network. From what I've heard, all access to the company network > will be through the Citrix portal. > > Still it might be the justification I need to buy a new high powered laptop > and push a little harder to be able to telecommute. :-) > > Simon > > > On 29/03/2011 7:11 PM, Paul Stovell wrote: > > I think this is pretty exciting: > > > > The BYO (bring your own) device program at one of Australia's largest > insurers means staff will be able to break free from the shackles of their > company-issued PCs and plug in their personal laptops, tablets and > smartphones into the enterprise network. > > > > "We can supply you with desktops here, but if people want to bring in their > Macs or other devices, then that's their choice. People should use the > device they feel the most productive in. > > > > "It is part of Suncorp's fundamental strategy to attract, develop and > retain top talent and to give them a great place to work, and try to inspire > them to do great things." Mr Smith said Suncorp's goal was not to have > infrastructure be a constraint to people's innovation and ingenuity. > > > > From The Australian: > > > > > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/suncorp-goes-byo-in-hardware-as-staff-are-encouraged-to-plug-in-their-devices/story-e6frgakx-1226029655986 > > > > > >
