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BYOD in 2023: Regular Evaluation Can Help Reduce Risk

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Is it time to revisit your organization’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies? The answer to this question is subjective, but doing so can be beneficial as the workforce and productivity behaviors change. Having a BYOD...more

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German Federal Labor Court States Employers Must Provide Employees With Work Equipment

On November 10, 2021, Germany’s Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht) ruled (Case No. 5 AZR 334/21) that employers must provide employed bicycle couriers with all the equipment essential for the performance of their...more

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One Year Later: How the Evolving Work-from-Home Climate Prompts Reminders for Technology Best Practices

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Perhaps no COVID-19 phenomenon will have a more lasting impact than the virtual office. Many employers recently marked the first anniversary of the decision to ask their employees to work from home in an effort to combat the...more

Butler Snow LLP

Has Your Company's BYOD Policy Withstood to the Test of Time?

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Many companies have implemented Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) policies. For some, it has been years since they were put in place. Has your policy withstood the test of time? Employees are using their devices differently than...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Digital Workplace Issues

Our increasingly connected world presents tremendous opportunities for employers as well as considerable confusion and risk. Should you Google a job applicant? Allowing employees to use their own mobile devices for work...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Minimizing Risks of BYOD Use For Work

Employees seem permanently attached to their smart phones today, but allowing employees to use their personal devices to make work calls, and send and receive work emails can carry substantial risks. ...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Employees Are a Gatekeeper to Effective Data Security

Data security and privacy concerns have become one of the top issues keeping business leaders up at night. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2018 study regarding the cost of data breaches, data breaches are increasingly...more

Baker Donelson

BYOD Programs: Ensuring the Savings are Worth the Risks

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Many employers are moving towards a "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) program, in which employees are allowed to connect their own personal cell phones, iPads, and laptops to the employer's network and systems. ...more

Cozen O'Connor

Protecting Your Trade Secrets: Implementing an Effective Exit Protocol

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We have previously posted on HR Headaches about the practical steps employers can take to protect their company’s trade secrets. ...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Workplace Monitoring: Where Do Employers Draw The Line?

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Recent developments in privacy law and a rise in class action lawsuits related to data collection offer a cautionary tale about understanding legal and ethical boundaries of monitoring “on-the-clock” employee conduct. With a...more

Gray Reed

An Employer’s Spooky Interpretation of its Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy

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Mark Eting is one of Duncey’s Caps top outside sales agents. Because the company is based in Texas, but Mark lives in Cleveland and sells for the company in the northeast, Mark purchased a personal computer and a laptop to...more

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Don’t Let Technology Run Away With Your Customer Information

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For many companies, customer information ranks among its most important assets. Yet these days, employees often keep this sensitive customer information in electronic locations that are not readily accessible to or controlled...more

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New Guidance on Employee-Owned Device Discovery

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As technology continues to evolve, organizations are increasingly facing challenges concerning whether, and to what extent, they allow employees to utilize their own devices for work purposes. When employees use their own...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Do BYOD Corporate Policies Provide an Unfair Protection?

BYOD — Bring Your Own Device - Should defendants be permitted to adopt a policy concerning employee use of personal computing devices in business that benefits the defendant and then hide behind that policy to its benefit...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Get Consent to Access Personal Devices Employees Use for Work

By now, most employers are familiar with “Bring Your Own Device to Work” policies. These policies allow employees to access company information through their own computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. ...more

BCLP

Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) Policies

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Many companies permit their employees to use personal mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to access company-specific information, such as email, under a Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) policy. BYOD policies can be...more

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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Policies and Best Practices

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Some of us may remember a time when companies were not as concerned about where their information was maintained, as most of it was kept in some form or fashion in file cabinets or individual desks, or perhaps stored offsite...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Top 10 Employment & Labour Issues for Employers

1: Accommodation in the Workplace - OVERVIEW - Employers have a duty to accommodate employees’ needs based on those grounds protected under federal and provincial human rights legislation. All employers are required...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Cell Phones at the Workplace: Protecting Employee Safety

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Seyfarth Synopsis: As OSHA’s enforcement relating to employee cell phone use gains more notoriety, it can be expected that it will have a significant collateral impact on law enforcement at all levels to address this hazard....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Pokémon GO Exposes Risks of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Policies

There’s no denying it: Pokémon GO is a phenomenon. The smartphone game, in which players use their mobile device camera and GPS to capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, was released in the United States on July...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Mobile Device Privacy Considerations for Employers

The use of mobile devices in the workplace, including cell phones, tablets, and other devices, has generated significant risks for employers, both in terms of data security and of litigation strategy. Access to these devices...more

Smith Anderson

Protecting Company Relationships and Information Upon an Employee Departure

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Learn how your company can prepare to act quickly and strategically to protect important relationships, information and trade secrets at the time that a key employee leaves. This webinar will review the latest developments in...more

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eWorkplace Policies Restricting Employees’ Acceptable Use of Technology, Social Media & The Cloud

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I. OVERVIEW – THE MODERN LANDSCAPE - A. Physical Conduct PLUS Digital Activity - Traditional concerns for employers have included: conduct leading to liability to third-parties; “frolic and detour” or other...more

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Privacy Commissioners Issue Joint Guidance on Bring Your Own Device Programs

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An organization’s information can be put at risk when staff begin to bring their own devices and use them in the workplace. As a result, in such cases, an organization should consider adopting an appropriate “bring your own...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Smartphones & Smart Employers: Device Policies Enable Businesses To Safely Embrace Technology

Employers who don’t think they need a bring-your-own-device policy should consider this: Nearly 70 percent of millennials and 31 percent of baby boomers surveyed last year by TrackVia admitted to using their own devices and...more

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