I was wondering how other feel about the Bring Your Own Device. It seems like cost shifting onto employee more. How do the rest of you feel about it?
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NEVER, never, NEVER EVER use your primary personal mobile devices for BYOD!
No matter what the company says, it will have access to those devices, if it wants. This is totally NOT worth the convenience of not carrying two phones.
Anyone stupid enough to use BYOD with their company on their primary personal mobile device, gets what they deserve.
I have done BYOD at other company where I bought a second cheap, used device and used THAT one (not my actual personal device) for BYOD. That is the only relatively safe and sensible way to do BYOD!
I understand that in certain states or seattle they cannot pass the cost along. If they dont cancel their phones, then it must be important to the company for these resources to have a phone. If it is important to the company in that role, it should be important enough for them to pay the phone expenses for all similar roles. But, it won't happen because it is required by legislation. If they wont pay for your phone, cancel your work phone. As other posters have said: do not give them access to your phone.
BYOD is better anyway. They were giving out those tired iPhone 6S phones long after they were discontinued.
Fiserv has given you an option, option 3 people, it is not tgat big of a deal to disconnect,
For all those that say Fiserv is behind the times in BYOD, you’re flat out mistaken. I’ve been in financial services my entire career and NO other employer asked me to pay for my own cell phone and use my personal device for work purposes.
F you Fiserv and Frank!
Been a BYOD person for several years and wouldn’t want it any other way. Carrying two phones around sucks. Change is hard but I’m pretty sure those moving to it will be glad they did in time. Most companies are BYOD so Fiserv is late to the party with moving this direction
I hope the employees who provide the coffee get the good stuff.
Once back in the office, please bring your own toilet paper, hand soap and paper towels. What ... you think we are some type of company that “provides” the basics to succeed ? Cmon now.
BYOD but on your dime, pretty sh---y for a company of Fiserv's size. They will only compensate you monthly when required by law to do so. Sad..
@1kng Good point
Just buy a 2nd device only for work. Do not ever mix personal with work ever. Well unless you’re ETG, they mix personal with work daily
There will not be a need for work phones because there will not be any more outages. Once these initiatives kick into high gears all outages will be a thing of the past.
That is bu-----t. I have been in IT for over 20+ years, and all my employers have paid for my phones through reimbursements or paying for the service directly. If you believe the BS of not paying for devices is the new thing, that is a load of sh1t.
BYOD ...no way. Fiserv doesn't need to have one bit of access to my device that I pay for.i hope people realize their acquiesce hurts everyone because it makes it acceptable. Stop being a sheeple.
I think it's time I brought my Huawei phone to work with all these side-loaded pr0n apps!
What's the over/under before a banking software company has to report a data breach (or eats a ransomware demand) because their bean-counters are re--rds?
Krebs will have a field day with FISV if they let employees use their own hardware.
When you install the software you agree to give them control of the device 100%, including personal photos, texts and phone calls etc. They can use GPS to track you at any time, all the time, including when you enter/leave the office. They have the ability to brick your device at any time, for any reason, including termination. Just be aware what you are signing up for. Their control is not limited to just the software they install. Do you trust PC enough to give him that much data?
Security concerns – sounds nice to reduce costs but a home device will not have the same security protocols as office devices, particularly given FD mandated software for keyboard counting. Malware and more can easily come into a non–secure device and that would be bad for the Fiserv network in many ways. Cell phones are far worse. If you want secure platforms, and that is important for a financial institution ( Experian anyone???) So have at it and let's see the results. Now we have a show.
It is cost cutting and shifting that overall cost to employees. Employeer's have always covered the cost of the cell phone.
I do BYOD for my phone at my new job (since I left Fiserv), but they compensate me for it by paying the subsidy on my carrier bill. They also use software to create a partition between work apps and personal ones, and stay strictly on the 'work' side of that partition. Finally, they pay me way more than Fiserv ever did, and provide tons of benefits (including RSU stock grants each year on top of bonuses) so I don't mind it all that much.
BYOD...as well as get your @$$ into the office because we don’t like WFH.
It's not shocking that HR is spamming this thread with "every company has done this for decades!" posts to try to defend their poor policy changes. It never ceases to amaze me the creative money–swindling techniques they come up with. Next will be "bring your own health insurance," swiftly followed by "bring your own agile coach."
Well that's a violation of company policy so did they actually amend the policy or is everyone now subject to termination for violating the policy? I suppose that would be convenient...
My last four companies over the last 20 years were BYOD. It's really not a big deal.
PC will no doubt want to image everyone's machines with boatloads of spyware so that he can abuse his power – be prepared! ;–)
OFD shifted the cost of cell phones to employees a few years back; It was billed as better for the employees. In reality it was just cost cutting for the business without even offering the employees a stipend. Shortly after management wanted everyone to provide their own computer as well. That hasn't happened yet, but its coming.
Every company in the universe went to this in about 1995...