Time to Embrace BYOD: How Enterprises Can Successfully Implement BYOD
How Enterprises Can Successfully Implement BYOD
Modern businesses- small or large are today riding a new wave. The world before and after 2020 is never going to be the same and its repercussions have hit our day to day lives including the way businesses operate. From complete temporary closure to remote working mandated by the governments across the world, enterprises today have to diversify their operations to accommodate the new normal.
Image Source For the companies that were already prepared for the operational changes, the switch to the new working style has been comfortable. But for enterprises that have clung to the conventional methods of operation, it is high time to make the change. Embracing BYOD- bring your own device is one such change that enterprises better make if they haven’t already.
BYOD Business Benefits
The benefits of BYOD are well-known. Apart from being extremely useful in situations where employees are suddenly compelled to work remotely, BYOD is actually cost-effective for enterprises. Employees, when offered the liberty to work with their personal favourites, most likely choose the latest and the best contemporary technology either by device purchases or leasing and the company doesn’t have to worry about the inventory investments. Implementing BYOD also helps in improving employee availability, helps in telecommuting, adds to the total work hours put in by the employee and is a true win-win.
Read more: How BYOD Drives Business Agility
BYOD adoption stats
According to a survey¹, 69% of the IT decision-makers in the U.S. think that BYOD is incremental for the organization. Yet, the BYOD adoption rate is not so satisfied. Although more than 85% of organizations allow employees to use personal devices at work and for work. But more often than not, this is limited to checking work emails and quickly replying to messages. The overall BYOD adoption rate is yet around 50% in the sense where organizations depend solely on employees using their personal devices for work.
Also read: BYOD Trends in 2019: Its Influence in the Next Five Years
Image source Why enterprises shy away from introducing BYOD is an important aspect to consider.
Concerns over BYOD adoption
Security is one of the biggest concerns for BYOD adoption. Around 39% of the enterprises² suggested that security was a roadblock in their BYOD adoption journey. Provisioning and providing support for diverse devices is another concern that prevents companies from embracing BYOD. Furthermore, employees are also hesitant to ‘bring their own device’ for work because they do not have their private data to be infringed and their employers tracking them is probably the last thing they want.
While these reasons and a lot more are important to consider before implementing BYOD , they should not hold back organizations from...
