Re: Corporate policy question - Personal Laptops

[Patrick Horgan <phorgan1 () gmail com>]

Daniel Pérez wrote:
> Hi Tom!
>
> IT's a hard decision: you can't be sure that the employee copied company's files
> in his personal laptop.
>
> I think you should check two things:
> a) Does your contract with this employee has a clause that indicates if he can
> bring his laptop to the office, or the procedure in the case of dimission/firing?
> if the contract states that you shouldn't bring your personal computer to the
> office, you could wipe it. 
Not true here.
> If the contract states that in case of quiting/getting
> fired user is not allowed to return to his desk, and that any personal stuff
> would be returned after revission, you could also do the same.
>   
I don't know what revission is but even if the policy said that you are 
agreeing to have your hard drive wiped if you bring a personal computer 
on site, the courts might very well disagree.  There's a long history of 
privacy and personal property rights and the courts have pretty 
consistently agreed that you can't sign them away.

It would be too risky.  As others have said, if it's an issue at a site 
then you don' t allow people to bring it them onsite.

Patrick