Small and Medium Businesses: It's time to accept BYOD strategies

 Happy employees are productive employees. That's a mantra most great business owners and managers strive to live by, especially in tough economic times. One easy step you can take as a business decision maker is to employ a BYOD program. That acronym stands for bring your own device, and in short it means letting devices your employees and co-workers own access your company information.

So, instead of issuing a BlackBerry to your workforce (which they'll likely supplement with their own smartphone of choice anyway), your company issues a BYOD policy which will let them access company email, contacts, calendar, documents (or any combination of those and more) from their personal iPhone, Windows Phone, Android phone, or tablet. Less training is required for each person, infrastructure costs go down, and with the ability to remotely lock and wipe a device your confidential data is secure. It really is a win-win strategy. 

According to the iPass Q4 Mobile Workforce Report up to 42% of mobile employees leave their laptop at work and use only a smartphone or tablet in the evenings or weekends. These are people who would have had a normal 9-5 position only a few short years ago. Now they're getting work done or catching up on email in their free time to be more productive. But with only 19% of employers currently embracing a true BYOD policy that figure is bound to rise significantly in the coming years.

This isn't just a trend, the future of enterprise is mobile. The only question is whether your company will embrace this new paradigm, or have it forced upon you over the next few years.

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