GO! FOR JOB SUCCESS Discussion: Personal Software Use Your instructor may assign these questions to your class, and then ask you to think about them or discuss with your classmates Businesses spend millions of dollars a year on software costs and updates. As an employee of a company, you may bo issued a company notebook computer to travel with. If you are issued the computer to take outside of work, does that give you the right to use it for nonbusiness tasks? What types of restrictions might a company put on personal software use? f the company computer has software on it that you don't have on your computer, is it OK to use the software outside of work hours and save your files on your own flash drive? FtolEdhar/Fotolia