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 quite a few reasons that support why companies are handing out brand new smart phones to 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 are then able to see exactly the reason why your employee has left the office. Are they really ill or have they gone into town to buy something cool for themselves?
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?
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
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.
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