How to write a BYOD Policy?
The first step to an effective BYOD policy is understanding your employees’ mobile behaviour. How are your staff using their mobiles to interact with you right now? What work tasks are they carrying out on their personal devices? Which MADP platforms are they using, iOS or Android?
Asking these questions will help you paint a picture of your mobile workforce, your employees’ digital behaviour and their needs. After this, the next step is then identifying your business goals for BYOD, what is it you’re hoping to achieve? Because BYOD and enterprise mobility must support your business goals. And, more importantly, how do your goals relate to your employees’ behaviour?
Once you’ve got a good understanding of the role mobile has to play in your business, you can start to build your ideal BYOD policy. One that brings together your employees’ needs with your business goals. To help you start, here are a few essential parts of your BYOD policy:
Acceptable use: It’s important that your employees understand what’s acceptable and what isn’t when it comes to their devices. From your initial research, you should have a good understanding of the mobile activities that directly or indirectly support your employees’ tasks. Based on this, you can identify which apps, processes and activities you should allow and which you should ban.
This won’t be a universal rule that applies to everyone in your business. So, you’ll need to separate your business’ stakeholders into groups depending on their role and requirements. You can then assign different permissions and sub-policies to each group.
Employee turnover and attrition: A good BYOD policy makes up a small part of your Mobile Device Management (MDM) strategy, otherwise known as an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) strategy. The MDM solutions you have in place are what makes enforcing your BYOD policies possible.
So, looking forward, what happens in the event that one of your employees leaves your company? With BYOD, that employees’ device will likely have important data saved on it as well as their personal files. So, after an employee leaves, your BYOD policy needs to outline how you’ll remove any data, emails, or enterprise apps from that employees’ device.
For some companies, this means removing access to the employees’ email inbox. For others, it’s a complete wipe of the personal device. Whichever suits your business best, you need to clearly outline your process in plain English your employees. With a well-thought-out plan outlining how you’ll separate personal and professional files.
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