Except when the enterprise blocks their access to gmail ;) - James Beake

James: EVDO. Solves all IT control problems. :-) - Robert Scoble

not in Australia....to damn expensive - James Beake

Robert, I use EvDO every day at work to circumvent the IT people and get more work done. - Andrew Feinberg

I have an Outlook rule that forwards any incoming Exchange Inbox message to Gmail where I archive them just in case I have to delete them on Exchange to stay under quota - Thomas Ho from fftogo

Andrew, your not really circumventing them unless you are linking the two networks with something other than what's sitting on the chair. - James Beake

Employees are more and more giving up fighting IT. They work out how to get around the IT department to get their jobs done. And there is a generation coming through who simply won't work places that restrict their access to tools, resouces and connections. Most IT policies are based on the technological separation of work from life. Work and life are blended though and the barriers are all articifical. - Jed White

@James - I am when I can get more of my work done using my laptop and EvDO than I can using the tools they provide me with. - Andrew Feinberg

@Andrew @Jed The things that you are suggesting would be a sackable offence where I work, if they found out. For the record, I agree with what you are saying and have spent may hours with the security guys at my work arguing that they are making decisions that should be made by the business areas. - James Beake

Some enterprises are already starting to block most webmail services. - Rick Mahn from twhirl

People are innovative. They will keep finding ways around blocked services and new services to use that aren't blocked yet. Until they reach frustration point. Then they'll simply go somewhere where they don't need to fight against the organisation to do their jobs. And the next time they look for a job, they'll go somewhere that let's them focus their energy on results and use the tools they want. - Jed White

@James Business just writes a policy that says "If we catch you doing this you're fired." They can also monitor for it. I work in a hospital. They are paranoid about health info being divulged. Moving emails that discuss patient info to a cloud application is really not a good idea. Yet we are still limited to 180MB limit for Outlook, and it's impossible to convince management that this is ridiculously small. Make your internal service as good as the third party service and no one will want to use them - Kevin Shannon

Anyone remember who commented that the last generation of knowledge workers lived in Outlook, the new generation live in Facebook? - Jed White