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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an expression used to describe a company policy which allows employees to use their own work tools such as laptops, phones and software at work. Similar to BYOD is also Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) which refers to employees who use their own account on the cloud service Dropbox to store and share documents. The purpose of BYOD and BYOC is to make it possible for employees to work with whatever tools they are accustomed to in order to increase productivity and satisfaction among workers. It can also lead to a reduction in costs for the company because it no longer has to purchase all the necessary work tools. Disadvantages regarding BYOD are mainly potential security risks, as it is more difficult to control sensitive information and it also makes it difficult to provide good support for many different departments.
