The ideas good, but I wouldn't want to take a home pc to work and leave it there, laptop maybe... Good on suncorp for trying something different.. The company I work for gave me a Quad Core with 8gb Ram, and then put the standard SOE (XP 32 Bit) on it, in which I have to run a VM to do the dev work..
All ass about as far as I'm concerned.. They've got the cash to put out for the box, something stupid like $8k through their "supplier", but won't give me the environment to make my life easier.. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Price <step...@littlevoices.com>wrote: > I've always thought that if your team are not coming into work complaining > about how crap their home computer is compared to their work PC then you're > not looking after your developers. I'm currently working from home Tuesdays > and Thursdays (the boss thinks productivity is higher if you go dark, which > I think has some merit). 30" monitor and 27.5" montior at home. 2 x 24" at > work. Got a newer desktop at work than home... I did have to buy myself an > SSD drive for my home PC to try to keep up with my work PC. :D > Pertty cool idea people being able to bring their own machines to work. > Downsides I can see, more people using laptops (possibly more future cases > of workers comp from hunching over a laptop rather than eye level monitor?) > and putting the responsibility of your hardware back on the worker. No car > == no job, may become no laptop == no job. > > Should help cut down situations where people are using 8 year old laptops > to try to do their job. Man what a way to abuse your staff. unless they are > contractors of course... (no no, it's ok. I'll take the 1Gb ram machine. ) > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Simon Haigh <smha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Not as exciting as it sounds. Definately not going to be be a open >> slather policy about bringing your favourite device to work and plugging it >> into the network. From what I've heard, all access to the company network >> will be through the Citrix portal. >> >> Still it might be the justification I need to buy a new high powered >> laptop and push a little harder to be able to telecommute. :-) >> >> Simon >> >> >> On 29/03/2011 7:11 PM, Paul Stovell wrote: >> >> I think this is pretty exciting: >> >> >> >> The BYO (bring your own) device program at one of Australia's largest >> insurers means staff will be able to break free from the shackles of their >> company-issued PCs and plug in their personal laptops, tablets and >> smartphones into the enterprise network. >> >> >> >> "We can supply you with desktops here, but if people want to bring in >> their Macs or other devices, then that's their choice. People should use the >> device they feel the most productive in. >> >> >> >> "It is part of Suncorp's fundamental strategy to attract, develop and >> retain top talent and to give them a great place to work, and try to inspire >> them to do great things." Mr Smith said Suncorp's goal was not to have >> infrastructure be a constraint to people's innovation and ingenuity. >> >> >> >> From The Australian: >> >> >> >> >> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/suncorp-goes-byo-in-hardware-as-staff-are-encouraged-to-plug-in-their-devices/story-e6frgakx-1226029655986 >> >> >> >> >> >> >
