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BYOC is exactly what you'd hope it would be. Citrix grants a $2,100 stipend every three years. Employees purchase the laptop of their choice, be it an $800 Dell, a Toshiba tablet, 17-inch MacBook Pro, or $4,000 gaming machine. The only requirements: a 3-year support contract, up-to-date anti-virus, the ability to connect to the corporate SSL VPN, and, of course, running XenApp for delivery of all required business apps.
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/citrix_tries_by.html
I think this is a great idea and actually know a few employees who have opted to do this, but the one thing that I don't like is that the $2,100 is taxed, so you really only end up getting around $1,400 after taxes, and then the computer you buy then has taxes added on depending on where and how you purchase it, thus dropping that $1,400 down even further, to something more like $1,200
But Then again you get to pick the exact computer configured the way you want!
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Mar 14, 2009
James Kuypers says:
I'm not a tax-expert, but can't we circumvent that problem by having the employe...I'm not a tax-expert, but can't we circumvent that problem by having the employee pay the bill upfront and then file an expense report or such?
Aug 26
Roger Klorese says:
If you treat it as a reimbursable expense, the equipment has to belong to the co...If you treat it as a reimbursable expense, the equipment has to belong to the company – which is the opposite of the desired outcome. BYOC is really a compensation bonus for agreeing to participate in the program.
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