What is Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE)?

Definition of Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE)

Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE) is a strategy implemented by the IT-related organizations in which employees are provided with the IT related gadgets and devices like laptops, table computers, smartphones, software facilities etc. by their organizations.

How Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE) does works?

Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE) strategy is totally opposite to Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) strategy because employees don’t need to buy their own laptops or other IT related devices to perform their job related tasks as all of the required devices are provided by the company.

Employees are allowed to carry these devices with them to their home and to access all of the social websites but still these devices are monitored and controlled by the company and employees have to return these devices back to the company in case of job switching or leaving.

How and where Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE) is used?

Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE) strategy is used in those IT related organizations who want to keep control on their employee’s activities. It also helps in reducing cost of the gadgets and devices as companies used to buy these devices on whole sale rate.