1. What are the advantage and disadvantage of allowing employees to use their
personal smartphones for work?
personal smartphones for work?
Advantage
Employee can use that software to access their entire desktop on their Smartphone and
mobile handhelds.
mobile handhelds.
Employee also can use the same programs on the road that they use in the office.
The visualization software has built-in security features that allow corporations to prohibit
saving data on local devices to encrypt all corporate data without touching employees’
personal application and data to remotely erase the data event of a security breach.
Disadvantage
Using personal devices for business poses difficult problems for companies
Including security, inventory management support, integrating mobile devices into
pre-existing 17 functions and system and measuring return on investment.
2. What people, organization, and technology factors should addressed when
deciding whether to allow employees to use their personal smartphones for work.
deciding whether to allow employees to use their personal smartphones for work.
People
Employee are not able to access critical data or encounter other problems with their mobile
devices. Many worker swear by their mobile device, benefit are too significant to ignore, but
qualifying how much money is earned or saved going mobile can be difficult.
Organization
Employees using their own smartphone would allow companies to enjoy all of the same
benefit of a mobile workforce without spending their own money on these device.
benefit of a mobile workforce without spending their own money on these device.
Including security, inventory management, support, integrating mobile device into
pre-existing IT function and system, and measuring return on investment. Need on effective
way to keep track of all device employee are using. Company must be configured to receive
connection from that devices.
way to keep track of all device employee are using. Company must be configured to receive
connection from that devices.
Technology factor
Need to overcome several logistical hurdles to make that vision a reality
Device-significant concern with securing company information access with mobile device-
sensitive/confidential information is not freely available to anyone.
The visualization software
3. Allowing employees to use their own smartphones for work will save the company
money. Do you agree? Why and why not?
Not agree, this is because :
1) Not safety
If the personal devices has been stolen by others, then security system of the companies will
lose its function and people will easily hack to your phone and also know the operation of
your companies.
your companies.
2) No privacy
If the personal devices is stolen by other, people will easily know the amount of inventory of
your companies.
By hacking the personal devices, they can transfer the inventory to their own companies and
sell to other with a different prices.
3) Time consuming
If use their own smartphones for work, they have to integrate mobile devices into
pre-existing.IT functions and system, this will waste a lot of times. They need to measuring
the return on investment or doing everything in a new way.
4) Cost will increase
Especially the cost of training their employees to work with their own personal devices. By
training, the management or work will be standardized. If they allow their employees to use
own smartphone,they also need to consider the increasing cost.
5) The advance of technology increase the number of hacker
The advance of technology will bring out a lot of hacker. Even though how advance the
technology is, but the hacker will also hack into our operating system of a companies.