Date: 1 Dec 2009 Comments: 0

With the release of various smart phones are companies choosing to hand their employees the iPhone rather than get technology for their landlines like 0800 numbers and premium rate phone numbers?

The Reasons

Tracking

There are actually quite a few reasons that support why companies are handing out brand new smart phones to their employees. One of the major reasons is that they can keep track of their employees wherever they are going which of course is something that the average boss would love to do. You can then see exactly what your employees are up too. Are they really off to the doctors or are they just off home for a nice paid afternoon off?

Kindness

If someone was to receive one of these phones then they are going to feel a hell of lot better about the company and feel like they are very valued. Giving your employees the latest technology just shows that you care about the people in the business and could actually help to boost the morale within the company making your employees work a lot harder than they did before.

More Work?

The great thing about these phones is that they work from whereveer as they are able to recieve e-mails and do various other things on the phones. No more will the first 30+ minutes of the day be wasted answering emails as they can now do it all from home.

Negatives

One of the major downsides to doing something like this is actually the cost that you are going to get. Although you could get all of these phones on pay as you go, you would only really start to see some benefits in the business. It is certainly going to cost you a lot of money if you have a lot of people within the office itself.

You are still going to need systems like the fax to email in place as the smart phone is not quite clever enough to redirect faxes into an email format just yet.