Of course there's something fundamentally wrong with how the data is handled in the first place at most company big or small, welcome to the real world.
BTW the setup you describe with data being replicated in various places without specific coherence is exactly a situation of “there something fundamentally wrong”, and I've yet to see a company where there's a whole-PC backup job running in the background that gives the ability for the IT to give you a clone of your computer on demand in case of loss/failure (and I'm saying a clone of the computer: from the post-it to-do lists, your keybindings/ preferences in software, your bash aliases and small helper scripts, to the customized toolchain you spent three days setting up on five years back and don't remember how to install). Not everyone uses their computer as a mere PowerPoint consumption device…
I suppose companies using Mac could do that because that's exactly what time capsule allows you to do but idk if that's easy to deploy company-wide.
Anyway, none of what you said justifies to block workers from using their own device (they can and will use the cloud tools you mention with no issue from their computer), and invoking IP protection reasons is just security theater.
BTW the setup you describe with data being replicated in various places without specific coherence is exactly a situation of “there something fundamentally wrong”, and I've yet to see a company where there's a whole-PC backup job running in the background that gives the ability for the IT to give you a clone of your computer on demand in case of loss/failure (and I'm saying a clone of the computer: from the post-it to-do lists, your keybindings/ preferences in software, your bash aliases and small helper scripts, to the customized toolchain you spent three days setting up on five years back and don't remember how to install). Not everyone uses their computer as a mere PowerPoint consumption device…
I suppose companies using Mac could do that because that's exactly what time capsule allows you to do but idk if that's easy to deploy company-wide.
Anyway, none of what you said justifies to block workers from using their own device (they can and will use the cloud tools you mention with no issue from their computer), and invoking IP protection reasons is just security theater.