The Joy of Missing Out

Re:The Joy of Missing Out by Nasrudith on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:06AM (#17538696)

Yes there is trivially - give the end user the budget to buy their own. However there are some real logistical disadvantages to that approach as well and frankly many workplaces are far too hierarchally minded to the point of being insulted at the concept of asking the employees what they think.

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Re:The Joy of Missing Out by Godel_unicode on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:30AM (#17538973)

This works great until there's a problem of any kind. Then the users of the special snowflake phones will scream about IT not helping them.

Standards exist for a reason.

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Re:The Joy of Missing Out by selestify on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:30AM (#17538972)

What are the logistical disadvantages? Can't the buyer also take care of logistics?

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Re:The Joy of Missing Out by chii on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:20AM (#17539597)

> What are the logistical disadvantages?

if each user chose their own model, then the problem of integrating all the phones into the network and/or calendar system etc may be intractably hard.

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Re:The Joy of Missing Out by TeMPOraL on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:13AM (#17539126)

If you standardize on one model, you can order in bulk (and store the excess for new employees or to replace broken units).

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