Just as corporations once
offered flush benefits and pensions as a lure for talent, so did they offer
company tools such as laptops and cell phones. Just as corporations seek to
squeeze every last ounce of profitability for the owners and executive by trimming
pension obligations (everyone's a "contractor" these days), so are
they looking at the IT overhead and seeking ways to cut it, hence downloading
the burden of device ownership to labour just as the burden of benefits and pensions
are increasingly being downloaded to labour.
