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 many legitimate reasons why companies are handing out brand new smart phones to their new and old 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 ill or have they gone into town to buy something cool for themselves?
Kindness
If an employee receives a brand new smart phone just think how much they will now think of the company and how important they will feel. 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?
With the addition of things like e-mail and Facebook on the mobile it is possible for your employees to do their work wherever they are in the country. You could get them to start the day by looking and answering emails on the train which saves the first 30 minutes of the day being wasted on this.
Negatives
There are however a few downsides to doing something like this and the initial costing is a big one. A lot of the phones that you can get are pay as you go but truth be told you are better off paying for all of the contracts for the employees. If you have lot of people within the office then it could end up costing you a lot of money.
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.
