BYOD Like It's 2025
ComputerWorld, Monday, May 26th, 2025
Fifteen years after the 'bring your own device to work' movement took off, organizations may have outdated notions about supporting employee devices.
Hard as it is to believe, there was a time when using any personal technology at work was such a radical concept that most people wouldn't even consider it an option. IT departments went to great lengths to prevent workers from using their own devices, computers, apps/subscriptions, email, and cloud services.
The release of the iPhone in 2007 began to change that. Suddenly people were discovering that the smartphone they bought for their personal use could make them more efficient and productive at work as well.