Why Your Company Should Be Handing Out Smart Phones

posted by Catt Mallen
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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 several reasons why companies are looking at handing out smart phones to many of their 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 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. 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. 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

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. 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.



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