| Looking for a way to save your enterprise or | | | | hard to bear, consider revising this |
| government organization tens of thousands of | | | | strategy. A method that can be effective is |
| dollars a month or more on wireless mobile | | | | allotting an allowance to employees on their |
| communication use? First off, it's going to | | | | usage. In other words, set up a preset amount |
| take some discipline and innovative | | | | of acceptable minutes per month per employee |
| management for your cellular communication | | | | type. If any employee goes over their |
| services to become more cost efficient and | | | | allotted amount of minutes, it is garnished |
| less prone to abuse. Cell phone and handheld | | | | from their paychecks. Many companies have |
| usage can bleed a corporation's IT | | | | deployed this method to curb abuse with much |
| communications funding dry without so much as | | | | success. |
| a turn of the head, or at least until it's | | | | |
| too late. | | | | Reward the Good ... |
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| They're Everywhere ... | | | | In addition to an allowance program, a |
| | | | rewards program could be put in place as |
| It's more common than not for a large | | | | well. To sweeten the sour, award the employee |
| organization to have employees carrying | | | | with the least amount of minutes a percentage |
| company owned devices such as cellular | | | | of the company savings. Let it be announced |
| phones, pagers, PDAs, and Blackberry devices. | | | | beforehand and you may find employees trying |
| All these wireless devices meant to increase | | | | to conserve so they can take home a larger |
| employee productivity are more than likely | | | | paycheck. To make it more viral, perhaps |
| draining funds and ultimately decreasing | | | | first, second, and third place winners every |
| actual corporate productivity. It's an ever | | | | month. That will ensure that employees know |
| increasing telecommunications expense on a | | | | more than one employee each month will go |
| road to disaster. | | | | home with a fatter paycheck. Increasing the |
| | | | odds always helps feed the fever. Works in |
| One is Better ... | | | | Vegas, right? |
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| One way to better manage corporate employee | | | | Easier Said than Done ... |
| mobile communication cost is to buy ALL | | | | |
| cellular services through ONE provider. | | | | Now, keeping track of who is who and who |
| Buying through one provider gives your | | | | calls what can equal to a big headache and |
| organization the chance to receive volume | | | | ultimately take more time and money to |
| discounts. If you are giving your employees | | | | manage. Luckily there are some companies out |
| the opportunity to purchase their company | | | | there that make a living from auditing and |
| wireless device themselves on the corporate | | | | managing wireless bills or supplying the |
| account, you are opening the door to higher | | | | firmware to do so. While costs associated |
| rates and actually taking away control from | | | | with such services vary, they are valuable |
| the company as a whole. | | | | and more importantly; save money. Some of the |
| | | | companies that provide these services include |
| Close To Home ... | | | | Let's Talk Traq and Vercuity |
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| Secondly, audit not just the usage, but who | | | | Carriers Feel Your Pain ... |
| uses the mobile communications. You need to | | | | |
| investigate exactly who is a necessity mobile | | | | Aside from these companies that audit, track, |
| user and who is not. An office employee who | | | | and manage wireless usage, the mobile |
| spends most of their time within corporate | | | | communications industry has seen the aches |
| headquarters and who is not prone to | | | | and pains of employee abuse. Many cellular |
| traveling; may very well be responsible for | | | | carriers now offer more cost effective |
| inflated mobile usage. An employee calling | | | | wireless options for large employers knowing |
| friends and even relatives overseas is not | | | | of employee abuse and the minutes (money |
| entirely uncommon. This kind of abuse has | | | | sacrificed. In other words, lower rates for |
| been known to accumulate to a bill well over | | | | the higher volume to curb the cost of abuse |
| a $2,000.00 in a matter of days with just one | | | | whether or not it is taking place. |
| employee. | | | | |
| | | | One of the better cell phone providers for |
| Allowance, Not Just For Teens Anymore ... | | | | corporate services is Nextel. They offer over |
| | | | the phone ordering exclusively for corporate |
| It's important to weed out vanity from | | | | volume clients for all products and services |
| necessity. If the hardship of striping cell | | | | which include some good plans for busy mobile |
| phones and their usage from employees is too | | | | users. |