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. Believe it or not many employees will do this to keep track of where their employees are and this is something many bosses love to do. You are then able to see exactly the reason why your employee has left the office. Are they really off to the doctors or are they just off home for a nice paid afternoon off?
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 a couple of negatives to this and the main one seems to be the initial cost of doing something like this. 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. 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.
