Your employees are becoming more reliant on their mobile devices to work both inside and outside the office. According to a Cisco study on the international workforce, 66% of employees “expect IT to allow them to use any device – personal or company-issued – to access corporate networks, applications, and information anywhere at any time, and they expect the types of devices to continue diversifying.”

This trend is due to the growing popularity of smartphones, tablets and social media – especially among young professionals. Your tech-savvy, young employees expect to use the same technology at work that they use in their personal lives. If you want to attract and retain talent, you must support the next generation’s preferred work style and start a “bring your own device” (BYOD) program.

If you don’t embrace BYOD, your employees will find a way to work around your policies and use their own mobile devices to access your network. This can result in breaches to your systems and hackers accessing your sensitive corporate data – especially if an employee’s mobile device is lost or stolen. That’s why your BYOD initiative must meet your employees’ needs while ensuring your company data is safe and compliant – without affecting the rest of your IT infrastructure.