IOS Business - Find my iPhone - Personal/Work Apple ID - What to do...

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Hey Apple Discussions,
I work for a big enterprise company here in Canada, and have a couple technical questions.  Going forth and giving some back end about myself, I was previously a Genius, and am now a Mac/iOS Support Specialist.
We have various end users here who are currently using business iPhones. those user's would use their Apple ID with iCloud and setup Backup/Photo stream etc.. the works and Find My iPhone.
We all know that iOS 7 brought a new feature to iPhone to prevent theft and lockout (Great Job Apple!!), my question is not how to bypass the password screen when restoring a phone, as if you have the original receipt and proof of purchase and provide that to Apple they can help reset the device without needing the Apple ID (for Business companies only)
But when someone get's terminated/fired/quits the job and their Apple ID is tied to the first/main iCloud account, we cannot always get access to their personal iCloud password, as communication is lost with them, which leaves us with a "temp bricked" phone until we go through the channels, to have it properly reset.  This leads to us communicating with HR, and retrieving the POP(Proof of Purchase for that unique device) and going through the channels to have it unlocked.
So with new iPhones we have been  distributing with our end users we have been implementing our own Business Apple ID for iCloud, to enable Find my iPhone to prevent this LOCK out process from happening in the future down the road.  Needless to say, this no longer allows the end user to use ALL functionality of their  personal iCloud account, as when you add a secondary iCloud account you only get basic features, safari,bookmarks,calendars,notes,email and not photo stream, keychain, data, iCloud backup Find my iPhone...
We have looked at the Apple Configurator and they don't offer a solution with that mass distribution iOS Software....
This means the end user cannot restore from an iCloud backup, they cannot use Photo stream (however Box.net, dropbox, mega all have valuable usable Photo storage services).
We get the device belongs to "The Company" but now a days people tend to keep one phone on them ,taking pictures, and we all know how much people MANUALLY backup their own data on iTunes.
Any other solutions would be great where we can keep control of the find my iPhone section, so when we restore a terminated phone it is tied to our Business Apple ID,  making it a simple restore, but the end user can still use their personal for all other features as mentioned above, other than the basic  (mail,contacts,calendar,bookmarks,notes) and can backup their phone app data, and photos they have taken.
Thanks
Message was edited by: Knitsu1984 - minor adjustments and re-clarification.

Answer 1

We struggle with the same Problem in our company. Another case we would like to have each device configured with our company AppleID is when an employee told us he has lost his iPhone. We have no possibility to use the "Find iPhone" feature even the device belongs to us, because the employee use the iPhone with his own privat AppleID. So we just have to trust and believe the phone is lost, even we have doubts.
We are thinking about to Switch to Android because they have more Enterprise friendly device Management applications even I personally prefer iOS.