66% of employees bring two or more devices to work every day [Forrester]

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Forrester’s latest report on mobile adoption in the enterprise found that 66% of employees now use two or more devices every day.

Meanwhile, 55% of organizations stated that supporting a larger number of smartphones was a high or critical priority over the next 12 months, while 52% said the same of supporting tablets like Apple’s iPad. Device and app security is the highest concern.

For BYOD policies, 70% of tablet users got to pick their own and 67% of smartphone users. 15% of companies issued the tablets or smartphones directly. 13% of tablets and 15% of smartphones were from a pre-approved list. In our upcoming MObile Workforce Report, we are finding that 30% of employees are getting a work phone from work, 47% have purchased their own for work, but yet another 18% have a work-provided phone and a personal phone.

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