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BYOD: is personal information visible over corporate networks?

July 26, 2013 Adam Gorley Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring, Wages and Compensation

Employers are increasingly drafting and implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies for their employees. And they should be, since employees are increasingly using their personal digital devices—phones, tablets, laptops—to perform work, both in and out of the workplace. But employees may have trouble trusting their employers to stay out of their personal information…

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The risks of BYOD policy

June 7, 2012 Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Privacy and Security, Training and Development

In the “old” days, employees took whatever their employers gave them when it came to cellphones or personal digital assistants. However, the popularity of devices such as Apple and Android smartphones prompted a backlash from staff demanding to use their product of choice. Many employers, seeing a way to reduce costs, invited employees to “bring your own device”…

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Does your organization need a mobile strategy?

May 7, 2012 Adam Gorley Employee Relations, Human Resources, Privacy and Security

If your employees use mobile devices to perform work, then you probably do…

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BYOD trend poses immense challenges for organizations

March 7, 2012 Adam Gorley Employee Relations, Human Resources, Privacy and Security

No, employees aren’t bringing their own alcoholic drinks to work, but they are bringing in their own mobile devices and expecting to use them with their employers’ networks. What does that mean? Well, chances are several (if not many) of a given organization’s employees have personal smartphones or tablet computers, and they probably want to use them to perform work tasks.

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Are our devices harming our health?

February 1, 2011 Adam Gorley Health and Safety, Human Resources

I’ve caved. The end of my phone contract has been looming large, and as I pondered my options, somehow I thought, “I’d really like to be more connected.” So I’m ditching my two-year-old, decidedly not smart, flip phone and getting an iPhone—and a data plan. Soon I’ll be able to tweet and update my Facebook status and share photos wherever I am. And I’m afraid.

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First Reference Talks… on your phone!

April 22, 2010 Adam Gorley Announcements and Administration

We recently added another way that our readers can access content on the First Reference blog: we’ve optimized it for smartphones and some other portable devices. If you have a Blackberry Storm, an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch, a Palm Pre, an HTC Dream or Cupcake, or a Sanyo Incognito, or a phone that runs on Android or WebOS, you can experience our content in an easy-to-read and easy-to-access format that should load more quickly than ever.

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