If a company offers me access to slack/email/whatever if I BYOD that's nice... but it's not something I'm going to take them up on unless 1) they're extremely young and don't have the infrastructure to manage things or 2) the responsibilities I'm taking on are so heavy that I feel the need to be always on call (and receive appropriate compensation).
Otherwise, if you're hiring me as a developer, I will develop with all my effort during work hours... and then go home. If you occasionally need me to stay late to supervise an off-hours deploy that's cool - no worries... but if it ends up running 4+ hours over a normal work day I expect time in lieu (possibly just starting late the next day).
I feel like I'm at the sort of ideal balance of defensiveness and compliance for an employee - I want to help make your company run better... but we signed an agreement on what I'll be compensated for that effort and what the expectations are and we'll stick to the agreement excepting sane and reasonable requests for minor deviations - a BYOD policy is not one of those. I am not pulling down half a mil - I don't even make six figures US - but I'm still expensive enough that a good work setup: computer, chair, keyboard that doesn't suck and phone if you need me to have it - are entirely incidental costs compared with my salary, employer taxes and health care costs. If you, as an employer, are going to try and make both of our lives more complicated over a one time 200$ cost to the company (and plan cost - which could be non-existent if wifi-only works for the phone) then you don't have your priorities straight (unless, again, you're like a three person startup then whatever - I get there's already way too much crap each person is trying to handle).
I disagree with Rachel in the fact that I don't think it's ever a good idea to BYOD - even paying for it yourself. Cleaning company software off the device is going to be a pain - and it's going to be a pain when your employment ends which is a period in every job's life that could always use every advantage it can get to be drama free.
It always blows my mind a company will pay an employee 5-6 figures (ish) (on top of all the other expenses an employer pays per employee) then refuse to hand out 3-4 figure equipment (cell phone + plan, performant workstation, etc)
I think she was advocating for a completely separate BYOD/work device so the cleaning phase would be "wipe phone and sell on eBay" or simply "throw phone in the trash" (e.g. pay for a corporate-only device out of your salary)
I agree with a lot of her points - but pushing that cost onto the employee (if the understanding is that BYOD just means the employee with be buying a new device) goes against a lot of labour standards around tool usage. Employers are expected to generally provide employees with the tools they need to get the job done - this is one of the big separations between FTEs and contractors.
Otherwise, if you're hiring me as a developer, I will develop with all my effort during work hours... and then go home. If you occasionally need me to stay late to supervise an off-hours deploy that's cool - no worries... but if it ends up running 4+ hours over a normal work day I expect time in lieu (possibly just starting late the next day).
I feel like I'm at the sort of ideal balance of defensiveness and compliance for an employee - I want to help make your company run better... but we signed an agreement on what I'll be compensated for that effort and what the expectations are and we'll stick to the agreement excepting sane and reasonable requests for minor deviations - a BYOD policy is not one of those. I am not pulling down half a mil - I don't even make six figures US - but I'm still expensive enough that a good work setup: computer, chair, keyboard that doesn't suck and phone if you need me to have it - are entirely incidental costs compared with my salary, employer taxes and health care costs. If you, as an employer, are going to try and make both of our lives more complicated over a one time 200$ cost to the company (and plan cost - which could be non-existent if wifi-only works for the phone) then you don't have your priorities straight (unless, again, you're like a three person startup then whatever - I get there's already way too much crap each person is trying to handle).
I disagree with Rachel in the fact that I don't think it's ever a good idea to BYOD - even paying for it yourself. Cleaning company software off the device is going to be a pain - and it's going to be a pain when your employment ends which is a period in every job's life that could always use every advantage it can get to be drama free.