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Whether an employer sanctions consumer-grade collaboration tools in the workplace or not, infiltration is inevitable, so bear in mind these risks and potential strategies.

Consumer-grade tools -- and particularly those used for collaboration -- have steadily crept into the enterprise over the past few years. The cause of of this largely due to the frustrations end-users feel with the limited choice of  tools available at work, so here we discuss both risks and strategies in bringing consumer-grade collaboration tools into the workplace.