EMPLOYEES PHONING IT IN
If you own a company or run a business and gave your employees smartphones in order to help them do their jobs better, you may be doing yourself more harm than good. Smartphones—along with the Internet—are a wonderful invention. They allow people to communicate, play, and work anytime, anywhere—a good thing when done responsibly, but bad when not controlled. If you’ve given a smartphone to your employees with the expectation that they are going to use it solely for work, then you are sorely mistaken. Employees are people. People get bored, distracted, lazy, emotional—all of which can lead to the misuse of something as powerful and easy to use as a smartphone. Apps, video games, movies, social media, porn—all of these are temptations that exist on digital devices. What’s worse is that you’ve given those very devices to your employees. You’ve practically said, “Here you go, So-And-So. Here are a thousand other things you can be doing with your time other than working for me.” So how...