BYOD is as entrenched (and complicated) as ever

The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been around for years in U.S. workplaces and even though it's become a fixture at many companies, some IT shops are still coming to grips with it.

In hard numbers, the prevalence of BYOD in the workplace is difficult to measure. Researchers offer a wide variety of statistics.

Research firm Strategy Analytics, for example, said three-quarters of business smartphones and tablets shipped in the second quarter in North America were slated to wind up in the workplace -- either bought by businesses outright for their workers or by people who planned to use them in the office.

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