Avoid Employee Cell Phone Abuse

Looking for a way to save your enterprise orconsider revising this strategy. A method that can
government organization tens of thousands ofbe effective is allotting an allowance to employees
dollars a month or more on wireless mobileon their usage. In other words, set up a preset
communication use? First off, it's going to takeamount of acceptable minutes per month per
some discipline and innovative management foremployee type. If any employee goes over their
your cellular communication services to becomeallotted amount of minutes, it is garnished from
more cost efficient and less prone to abuse. Celltheir paychecks. Many companies have deployed
phone and handheld usage can bleed athis method to curb abuse with much success.
corporation's IT communications funding dryReward the Good ...
without so much as a turn of the head, or atIn 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 largeamount of minutes a percentage of the company
organization to have employees carrying companysavings. 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 wirelesscan take home a larger paycheck. To make it
devices meant to increase employee productivitymore viral, perhaps first, second, and third place
are more than likely draining funds and ultimatelywinners every month. That will ensure that
decreasing actual corporate productivity. It's anemployees know more than one employee each
ever increasing telecommunications expense on amonth 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 employeeEasier Said than Done ...
mobile communication cost is to buy ALL cellularNow, keeping track of who is who and who calls
services through ONE provider. Buying throughwhat can equal to a big headache and ultimately
one provider gives your organization the chancetake more time and money to manage. Luckily
to receive volume discounts. If you are givingthere are some companies out there that make a
your employees the opportunity to purchase theirliving from auditing and managing wireless bills or
company wireless device themselves on thesupplying the firmware to do so. While costs
corporate account, you are opening the door toassociated with such services vary, they are
higher rates and actually taking away control fromvaluable 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 usesCarriers Feel Your Pain ...
the mobile communications. You need toAside from these companies that audit, track, and
investigate exactly who is a necessity mobile usermanage wireless usage, the mobile
and who is not. An office employee who spendscommunications industry has seen the aches and
most of their time within corporate headquarterspains of employee abuse. Many cellular carriers
and who is not prone to traveling; may very wellnow offer more cost effective wireless options
be responsible for inflated mobile usage. Anfor large employers knowing of employee abuse
employee calling friends and even relativesand the minutes (money sacrificed. In other
overseas is not entirely uncommon. This kind ofwords, lower rates for the higher volume to curb
abuse has been known to accumulate to a bill wellthe cost of abuse whether or not it is taking
over a $2,000.00 in a matter of days with justplace.
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 theirclients for all products and services which include
usage from employees is too hard to bear,some good plans for busy mobile users.