16 Jun 2008
Firms should introduce employee-owned laptop programmes to encourage productivity gains and reduce costs, according to analyst group Gartner.
"Successful employee-owned notebook programmes have the potential to improve user productivity, create a clearer boundary around IT responsibilities and pass more IT costs to the user,” said Gartner analyst Brian Gammage.
Gammage explained the cost associated with PCs is the maintenance and support. “The costs go down for the enterprise if the notebook is provided by the employee because the employee takes more responsibility fixing the computer in their own time,” Gammage added.
Employees can be encouraged to participate in the programmes if firms pass on some of the savings, said Gammage. He suggested a payment of £34 a month for the cost of the notebook hardware, and an additional £13 a month for the cost of the notebook maintenance would be attractive and affordable.
One reason for hesitancy could be licensing fears, he conceded. But Gammage said software vendors were becoming more flexible in their thinking and that this hurdle should be removed in the next few years.
Expecting users to use there own computer and save company money "never". While it might cut IT bill it will cut productivity of users and therefore cut profits. Increase security risk. Annoy your staff.
I manage the desktop support for about 3000 users, and can say from real world experience that this will not work on just about every level. This must have been written by a desk bound geek who has never had to support users or secure company data and protect there IT environment.
If you ever wanted to go down this route you would first have to have every bit of software web based, so you are affectively working on a server. Until that day please only print articles that have some value.
Posted by: Michael Devlin 25 Jun 2008
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