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. Many bosses love to keep track of where their employees are for a trust relationship and you can track smart phones. 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 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?
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. 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.
