Ok, I’m in need of some advice, so here’s the situation. I work for a County Sheriff’s Department that is has it’s own IT Department, as opposed to the County’s IT department. The County has recently decided to offer to it’s employee’s (including those of us at the Sheriff’s Dept.) the ability to print our paycheck stubs via the intra-net instead of receiving them in the mail as in the past. For the County Employee’s, this is completely optional (as it should be) and people that want to continue receiving their stubs in the mail can do so. However, some of the Sheriff’s higher brass has made an executive decision to force all of the Sheriff employees to only be able to receive their stubs on-line (supposedly saving the Department $11,000 annually in printing and mailing fees). Because of this, the upper management has also decided that IT will set up any and all users home PC’s with VPN access (potentially up to 1500 people) just so they can log on to our network, to get access to the county’s network so they can print their pay stubs at home.
So now the IT staff is to support these users home PC’s as well as the Departments network (oh, and by the way we also support several of the outer-lying smaller Police Departments agencies). The IT Staff has expressed concerns with this and I am wondering what information or concerns anyone else out there might suggest we look into. Here is what we have tried to bring to the attention of upper-management:
1) more man hours to support home PC’s
2) home PC’s may not be up to par with Department standards
3) After hours support (which is extremely expensive to the department) will dramatically increase
4) Potentially opening up our network to more exposure to viruses, trojans, and hacking.
5) Many users may not have PC’s at home and will want access from public PC’s (such as at Kinko’s).
6) VPN support will turn into PC support for issues unrelated to Sheriff’s Department.
Further concerns amongst the department are whether or not forcing the employees to print their own stubs is even legal. It appears that some institutions that require a paycheck stub for for accreditation (eg credit checks) won’t accept the home printed stubs as valid. Has anyone ever heard of a situation like this before?