????有些人好像受不了手機不在身邊的感覺。據移動解決方案公司Jumio委托市場調查公司Harris Interactive最近進行的調查研究顯示，美國72%的智能手機用戶承認大多數時候都把手機放在身邊5英尺的范圍內，而且還有人甚至還把它們帶到特殊的場合，如在洗澡（12%）和床第之歡（9%）的時候。

????真的假的？

????當然，而且還包括在干活的時候。職場人士開始用自己的設備進行工作，這樣他們能在發工作郵件的時候發一些私人信息（“咱6點在McGritty's見！”），從而把私事和公事結合在一臺設備上。

????麥肯錫（McKinsey）的一份報告稱，在工作中使用的智能手機有80%是員工個人所有。企業也在不斷適應這一點——擺脫只能辦公室才能使用的設備【如黑莓（BlackBerry）】，同時制定自帶設備【Bring Your Own Device，簡稱（BYOD）】政策，以便更好地管理那些必然會拿起自己手機的員工們的使用習慣，因為他們不論公私事，全天候在線。

????Jumio首席營銷官兼策略官馬克?巴拉克說，我們正處在智能手機的“爆炸式增長階段”。用戶在這個階段會不斷地試驗不同類型的手機硬件和軟件，“測試著所有的方面”。通過順應BYOD風潮，企業實際上能用更低的成本提高生產力，因為員工可能在正常的上班時間外繼續工作，而且士氣更高，行動更便利。因此，優利系統（Unisys）報告稱相當多的求職者對那些支持員工自帶設備的企業給出更加正面的評價也就不足為奇了。

????當然，從企業的角度來看，BYOD也有不利之處，最嚴重的問題是安全漏洞。麥肯錫稱，將近90%的員工用私人設備完成25%以前用電腦完成的工作。實際上這些設備可能保留了與工作相關的信息，一旦把它們帶回家用作私人用途，重要的公司數據就流出了公司的IT墻時，事情就會變得復雜起來。加上手機存在可能丟失或被盜的風險。更別提還有偷窺的情況：Jumio研究表明，約29%的美國智能手機用戶承認偷看過別人手機里的內容。而且，只有一半在工作中使用私人設備的員工簽訂過約束這一行為的公司協議。人們不禁疑惑，這個新的世界將到底有多安全。

????賽門鐵克移動解決方案公司（Symantec Mobility Solutions）副總裁邁克爾?林對此倒很樂觀：“我們相信在順應BYOD潮流的同時也可能保持安全。”林提及一種稱為移動應用管理（Mobile Application Management，簡稱：MAM）的概念，這種管理技術能將企業應用及數據和用戶私人信息隔離。

????林承認“真的沒有哪種策略適用于所有的BYOD，”而且每個公司都有一些不同的需求：有些公司主要關注常見私人工作設備（包括智能手機和平板電腦）的安全問題，另一些可能更關注的卻是為設備建立一個成本分攤計劃。任何一家公司采用BYOD政策之前都應該為相關后果做好準備。林說：“BYOD政策的好壞關鍵在于這家公司執行這項政策的能力。”

????說得有道理。（咱McGritty's見！）（財富中文網）

????譯者：默默????

????Seems like some people can't bear to part with their smartphones. According to a recent study by mobile solutions company Jumio Inc. -- and conducted by market research firm Harris Interactive -- 72% of smartphone users in the U.S. admit to being at least five feet away from their devices most of the time, and even taking them to unusual places like the shower (12%) and between the sheets (9%).

????Seriously?

????And then of course there's work, where employees have begun using their own devices for on-the-job purposes, allowing them to send personal texts ("Meet U at McGritty's @ 6!") alongside work emails -- blending the personal and the professional onto a single device.

????McKinsey reports that some 80% of the smartphones used at work are employee-owned. Companies are adapting -- getting rid of exclusively workplace devices (like the BlackBerry (BBRY)) and designing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies to better govern the habits of employees who will inevitably be on their own phone -- and personally and professionally connected -- around the clock.

????Marc Barach, chief marketing and strategy officer of Jumio Inc., says that we're currently in the "explosion phase" with smartphones, where "all playing fields are being tested out;" consumers are constantly experimenting with different styles of mobile hardware and software. By jumping on the BYOD bandwagon, companies can actually improve productivity, through lower costs, potential for employees to work outside the regular company schedule, and an overall increase in employee morale and convenience. Not surprisingly, Unisys reports that a significant number of jobseekers view an organization more positively if it supports their device.

????Of course, there's a downside to BYOD from the corporate perspective, the most serious of which are security breaches. McKinsey reports that nearly 90% of employees use personal devices to do 25% of the work they once did on PCs. The fact that these devices can retain work-related information and then be taken home for personal use is where things start to get complicated -- when important corporate data trickles outside a company's IT wall. Added to that is the possibility of phones being lost or stolen. Never mind snooping: The Jumio study says some 29% of American smartphone users admit to noseying in on someone else's phone. And only half of employees who use their personal devices at work have even signed a policy that governs that behavior. Makes you wonder just how secure this new world is going to be.

????Michael Lin, vice president of Symantec Mobility Solutions, is optimistic: "We believe it's possible to maintain security while embracing BYOD." Lin points to something called Mobile Application Management, or MAM, which are technologies that segregate enterprise applications and data from user-owned information.

????Lin acknowledges that "there's really no one-size-fits-all BYOD strategy," and that all companies have somewhat different needs -- while some may focus primarily on the security issues with common personal-work devices (smartphones and tablets included), others may want to focus on setting a cost-sharing plan for the device. And before any company adopts a BYOD policy, it should be ready for the consequences: "A BYOD policy is only as good as a company's ability to enforce it," says Lin.

????Makes sense. (C U at McGritty's!)???