BYOD – Hype Or Sustainable Trend?

Employees increasingly want to integrate their private devices into their firm's IT network. This raises significant legal issues for employers and employees alike, including possible damage claims.

By 2017, half of all employers will require workers to supply their own devices for work purposes.

The trend of Bring[ing] Your Own Device (BYOD) to the office is currently the biggest technological development impacting our work environment. A recently published study established that by 2016, 38 percent of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers and let them use their own. By 2017, half of all employers will require workers to supply their own devices for work purposes.¹ In 2013, Shell introduced BYOD for ca 135,000 employees and Cisco did the same for 46,000 smartphones and 14,000 tablets. Nearly 50 percent of all Britons already use their personal digital devices for work-related purposes; however, only a small fraction of the survey participants said