Giving Out iPhones In The Recession?
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. Have they really gone home ill or have they just left a bit early to go to a concert?
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. if you give your employees all of the latest gadgets then you are showing that you really care about them and it could help them to work a bit harder as their morale’s are going to be higher.
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. They can start the day on the train by sending out important e-mails and you can get in contact with them either by e-mail or via Facebook whenever you need too as well.
Negatives
There are a couple of negatives to this and the main one seems to be the initial cost of doing something like this. 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. This is very expensive indeed and if you have a number of people in the office it will cost you a small fortune.
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.
