can block that device from connecting.
In that case:
what you describe is functionally no different than simply backing up company documents from your work PC to an external drive, and then leaving with that information. Or, even lower tech, just taking physical documents with you when you leave.
Well, we're referring to different things. ganjadude and I were talking about effectively "taking" company data, and how useful mobile management tools are at preventing that, so I was using "backlash" to refer to *companies* having issues with employees that leave.
To your point - users may not have any legal or official room to complain, but that rarely stops people from actually complaining.
To do BYOD you either need to specify EXACTLY what people can or can't use
A lot of the mobile remote software allows for this sort of control.
There are regulations about how different classifications of data can be moved around and stored.
Employers that follow those regulations/classifications probably won't require (or even allow) BYOD, so I would agree with vux984 that they aren't really different from other methods of taking company data off-site.
Typically the remote management software will work with any connection, so if your wifi hits the internet (mild pedantry - airplane mode disables wifi too, but obviously you could just disable mobile data), and is consequently able to call 'home' to your employer, it'll still be able to perform a remote wipe.
That said, what you describe is functionally no different than simply backing up company documents from your work PC to an external drive, and then leaving with that information. Or, even lower tech, just taking physical documents with you when you leave.
All of the mentioned restrictions only work if the phone is locked.
The mobile management software that's out there (and used by some companies that allow BYOD) works just fine on unlocked/rooted phones.
I wonder if companies allow a sales phone number be switch to a competitor when the sales person switches jobs.
If a company changes their procedures to allow employees to use their own phones instead of handing them out, they'll also change their procedures about phone numbers. My company simply uses internal numbers assigned to everyone (that they control), that we can forward to our personal phones if need be; this isn't an issue for companies already allowing BYOD.
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