Having been involved with a similar system when I worked "in the real world"
I'd suggest that if your company is too small to happily write off a laptop it's probably way too small for it to be worth it to run something like that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:33, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

It is mainly the data and the fact that our cap-ex budget is spent for this year.
Our margins on the work we do are good - I just re-invest most of this back in to the company to fund growth.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)

Like Kroney says - these things are a cunt to administer.
You might need to employ a new IT admin just for that. It's about the size more than anything. Unless you've got heading to 100 staff who all use remote login on work laptops I'd not bother. But then my experience is going back about 8 years.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)

It'd definitely be worth
removing admin rights to the laptops, though. Restrict them from saving stuff locally and you stop them stealing business.
( Kroney, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)

Been there and done that.
It massively pisses off staff in a small company. It basically says "fuck you, I've employed you but that doesn't mean I trust you"

It does depend on how "adult" your staff are, but IME it just created a situation where a bunch of staff thought that we valued the computing equipment more than them. Not a good situation in a small company.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)

My colleagues will be amongst the first to tell you
that I'm a bit jackboot in my approach to these things. In response, I'd say screw the staff, it's my job to protect the company's business, not their feelings.

Which is why I'm in a monolithic corporation, of course.
( Kroney, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)

I don't think you're wrong.
But in a company of 20-30 people, most of whom had PhDs, sometimes maintaining a pleasant working environment is more important than the occasional disappearing laptop ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)

I guess that would depend
on what's potentially on the laptop :P
( Kroney, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 11:00, Reply)