It’s a little-known fact but pesky little SIM card registration failure messages only seem to appear on your mobile phone at the most inopportune moment. Ever had one when you didn’t need to access your mobile network?

To give employees an out-of-box startup experience with all passcodes and zero-trust access policies in place, there is much to do when your organisation takes possession of your new fleet of mobile devices before you can distribute them to your team.

Attractive working conditions with the flexibility to work outside the office is a major drawcard for boosting employee engagement and attracting new talent. With the shift to hybrid working patterns, keeping employees securely connected to company applications and data while they work from home, in a café, or on the go, is now part of the many and complicated challenges tasked to the IT team. When your organisation embraces workplace flexibility it’s essential to adopt powerful security controls to go with it.

When you’re ready to equip your workforce with newer, more sophisticated technology, there are a number of ways to order and pay for the devices. Depending on your requirements, you can purchase mobile devices outright in one payment, opt to pay monthly over an agreed term, or choose to lease the devices. The latter allows you to switch to an operational expenditure model, removing mobile asset acquisition from your capital expenses.

Not long ago, certainly prior to the time of COVID-19, the great majority of knowledge workers had a traditional relationship with their office tech. The workstation provided by the company remained at the office when they left for the day after standard 9-to-5 office hours. Many had company owned and managed mobile devices, others took advantage of BYOD.