I think you're thinking of Blackberries ;-) ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Jorke Odolphi Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 6:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp
Isn't that why a lot of companies give people laptops?.. So they work for free.. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 9:38 PM To: djones...@gmail.com; ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp Why would you get paid extra to work at home? On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, <djones...@gmail.com<mailto:djones...@gmail.com>> wrote: It's also justification to make people work at home for no extra money. .02c Davy "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." I feel much the same way about xml ________________________________ From: David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com<mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> Sender: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:05:22 +0000 To: ozDotNet<ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> ReplyTo: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: RE: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp Sounds like a justification for spending less money on work machines. I'm failing to see why this is a good thing. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of Grant Molloy Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:21 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp 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<mailto: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<mailto: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 -- w: http://jcooney.net t: @josephcooney This email is intended for the named recipient only. The information it contains may be confidential or commercially sensitive. If you are not the intended recipient you must not reproduce or distribute any part of this email, disclose its contents to any other party, or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the message from your computer.
