1. Pricing. The price that the "company" I work for is actually within a few pennies of what I pay myself for a voice + data plan through Verizon (for the few very privileged people who get a phone in the first place). Perhaps our negotiators just aren't any good, but that's the way it is.
2. Avoid unnecessary invoice processing. Where I work the company avoids this by making you pay for it yourself. You want or think you need a phone? Get out your checkbook - otherwise you aren't getting one.
3. Leverage cost allocation data. Not needed since its free as far as the company is concerned (see item 2).
4. Don't lose control of data. Yes this is a problem. However before employees can connect their personal phone, they have to read and sign the mobile device agreement which gives us the right to configure the phone for them, cut off the device's access as we see fit and requires them to provide the phone to IT for a wipe if their employment terminates for any reason. Yes there are plenty of holes there. but if the company owns the phone, there is just as much risk of it being lost or stolen. It's my belief that an employee would be much less likely to promptly report loss of a company owned device (still hoping they will find it) for fear of getting in trouble.
5 Match devices and plans to job roles. Well, there are plenty of people we feel have a legitimate need for a phone. But there is no money (the "company" is government if you hadn't guessed) and no matter how great the need they are not going to get a phone of any sort unless they buy it and pay for it themselves.
The point of all this being that in our environment, the choice is not employee liable vs corporate liable. The choice is employee liable or no phones at all.
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