Employees Providing Laptops
According to Gartner by 2008 at least 10% of employers will require laptops to be provided by employees. All I can say is I certainly hope so. I’ve used my personal laptops for at least three employers in the last 6 years.
I’d much prefer to use my more productive Mac laptops versus your generic IT provided Dell laptop. The unwritten conclusion I can make is though they’ll require an X86 laptop running some specific version of Windows. Unless things like AlienWare and Apple laptops show up in some laptop magic quadrant.
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Ed Gibbs @ February 20, 2006
I’m not sure. I’m quite happy to see an organisation stump up the money for a laptop, so long as there is a demonstratable need. The problem is that for some, it is more of a status symbol.
That said, I’d like something other than my DELL!
I like the idea that as a professional craftsman you’re expected to provide your own tools, sort of like a carpenter. The metaphor might be stretched a bit though.
With my current employer I knew the paradigm when I showed up, that my work laptop was going to be a Dell. So given those bounds I asked for a Tablet PC since I was going to spend a lot of time running around to meetings. I got the central IT no we don’t support that.
Just this year I ordered two new laptops for two employees, they wanted to order the 17″ screen versions and again we got the no, it isn’t one of our predetermined models. Consistency is more important that productivity.