When it ends
When it ends
Almost everything that goes seriously wrong goes wrong at the exit, and the clause is written on a good day for a bad one.
Leaving: the Day Access Stops
The arrangement ends on a particular day, and almost every organisation handles it worse than it handles the equivalent day with a company laptop.
What Gets Wiped and What Should Not
The difference between removing a work profile space and erasing a device is the difference between an administrative step and a serious wrong.
Proving the Data Is Gone
Removal that nobody recorded is indistinguishable from removal that did not happen, and the distinction matters to both parties.
The Dismissal Case
Every part of the exit process assumes a cooperative departure. When the departure is not cooperative, the arrangement's weaknesses all arrive at once.
Disputes Over a Personal Device
Two parties with legitimate claims over one object, and very little law written for the situation. What they are actually arguing about.
The Person Who Will Not Hand It Over
Somebody refuses to allow removal of work data from their own device. The options are fewer than people assume and the sequence matters.
Records, Retention and Someone Else's Phone
Obligations to keep records, and obligations to produce them, do not pause because the data is on hardware the organisation cannot reach.
Reclaiming Nothing: What You Actually Lose
At the end of a company device's life the organisation gets something back. At the end of a BYOD arrangement it gets nothing, and that absence has a value.