> Employee experience and productivity should be equally important in these discussions as cost and security. And if you are making a decision about available tools on behalf of others, you need to spend time to understand the needs of the people you are deciding on behalf of, if you want to make a good decision.

I work in a larger company where only 20% is development. We are thrown in with the 'rest' of the people, and as such have insane restriction on tools, both online and on our computers.

The problem is that our voice is not large enough to get to the CTO.