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