It really depends on the position and the business. If you directly create value it’s pretty easy to make the ask, and they’ll probably say yes. Some businesses however are too burdened with vendor lock-in or lacking IT skills to make it happen.
I work for a marketing agency which has a mix of typical office roles (accounting, HR, sales) and industry specific positions (mostly creatives and developers). The former are normally used to Windows from previous jobs or school, and the exact opposite is true of the creative departments. So, choosing which platform each new hire prefers is standard for us (and has been for more than a decade).
Haha I actually enforced this when I started my current job. New hires get Macs, and if you want a Windows machine you have to justify it. In which case, you get a Thinkpad. I went from weeding through Intune daily to checking Jamf twice a week.
This is happening in my workplace. Almost all new hires request a Mac over windows
And they get to choose? Never worked for a business where that was true.
It really depends on the position and the business. If you directly create value it’s pretty easy to make the ask, and they’ll probably say yes. Some businesses however are too burdened with vendor lock-in or lacking IT skills to make it happen.
I work for a marketing agency which has a mix of typical office roles (accounting, HR, sales) and industry specific positions (mostly creatives and developers). The former are normally used to Windows from previous jobs or school, and the exact opposite is true of the creative departments. So, choosing which platform each new hire prefers is standard for us (and has been for more than a decade).
I heard NASA does. If you have a speciality of a small group and the top person in your field used to using X you get X.
Haha I actually enforced this when I started my current job. New hires get Macs, and if you want a Windows machine you have to justify it. In which case, you get a Thinkpad. I went from weeding through Intune daily to checking Jamf twice a week.