Comments on: Take a poll about your Smartphone https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone David Allen's GTD® Methodology Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Jeremy Hoff https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone/#comment-2630 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:21:57 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4027#comment-2630 @Phil
Speaking as the head of the I.T. dept. for my organization, I agree that businesses want productivity from their employees. The problem is there are HR rules that come into play and the employer is forced to be careful about what they permit lest they are on the hook for breaking some rules that get them into hot water. This, at times, leads to disappointment.

@Colin
I wish I could support every app out there, but it’s just me and a few other people and so we have to draw the line somewhere. End users are in a position where they can trust every app to work as advertised; I.T. people tend to trust nothing they don’t know everything about. It’s precarious, but that’s reality. We are more permissive than other I.T. departments I know, and we do our best and hope for the best with the caveat that the end user may be on their own if we can’t figure it out.

]]> By: Stephen Smith https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone/#comment-2629 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:34:35 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4027#comment-2629 I use my personal phone a lot for company business, so I can install anything that I want. The only difficulty is that our enterprise email system won’t work with my phone…that is a real pain.

]]> By: Colin Macqueen https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone/#comment-2628 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:02:18 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4027#comment-2628 I can do what I want with apps on my company iPhone (except jailbreak), the problem that I had was getting eProductivity onto my company provided laptop. I was only able to get it installed based on my job title (another user with a more junior title was refused) and only then on the grounds that I understand the IT take no responsibility for my Notes. If I have a Lotus Notes issue I either have to fix it myself or compleetely uninstall eProductivity before the IT department will look at it (even if the problem has nothing to do with Notes).

]]> By: OogieM https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone/#comment-2627 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:43:52 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4027#comment-2627 One of the big benefits of being self employed is I can do anything I want with my hardware. I’m currently debating jailbreaking my iPod to get back to the rev of SW I had before iOS4 which is a disaster for me.

]]> By: Phil https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone/#comment-2626 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:09:25 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4027#comment-2626 It seems that every thoughtful organization wants productivity from employees. Why not allow them to utilize software that suits their style? What should it matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice?

]]> By: Jeff Robinson https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/08/does-your-employer-block-productivity-apps-on-your-smartphone/#comment-2625 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:48:52 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4027#comment-2625 Would love eProductivity for my bberry but would have to “sell” to my organization as they only allow “company approved” apps. I love what it has done for lotus notes.

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