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And that, says Piyush Bhatnagar, managing director, technology, at Accenture Canada, is one of the big issues with wearables. They aren’t all the same. Some are benign, and some aren’t.

“I think we’ve got to step back and understand, from a wearables perspective, what we are really talking about,” he said.

“The iWatch will replace your iPhone, potentially, and has all the capabilities of an existing device. It’s just a different form factor. For those ones, we already have policies and infrastructure in place to some extent to deal with them. For the others that we don’t fully understand right now, like the Google Glass, or any other type of device where there’s recording or there’s other types of data being collected that’s stored wirelessly, that’s where I think there’s going to be a difference.”

IDC Canada’s manager for mobility research, Krista Napier, agrees.

“One of the important things for businesses should recognize is it’s just another device,” she said.

“At the end of the day, what’s really important in a business is the data, the information that’s making the employee productive. And whether it’s a phone or tablet or PC or wearable, it’s generating and processing information that you have to be able to manage. You have to be able to secure all of that data. Then you have to manage not just the devices, but the content and the apps residing on them.”

But, she added, it’s early days, and a lot of companies are still exploring how those devices can integrate to help their employees be more productive. “I think there will be an education process, where vendors come in and try and help those companies understand how something like Google Glass can make sense in their company.”