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

Another great reason for giving out smart phones is that the employee will actually feel like they are worth something to the company. 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?

It is not just emails that can be accessed via the phones but other things too however email is something that is very useful. 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.