Employees are bucking efforts to be forced to work on stale and stodgy corporate notebooks, desktops or clunky, outdated mobile phones. They want to use the same trendy smart phones, tablets, or netbooks that they have at home for both play and work. The trend is not just about devices, but it includes online and cloud-based services that are out of the reach of the IT department s control. Research firm Gartner estimates 20 percent of employees will be using social networks as their hub for business communications by 2014.
Source: https://threatpost.com/enterprises-riding-tiger-consumer-devices-120210/74723/