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Article #313: Avoid Employee Cell Phone Abuse

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






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