How To Improve The Control Over Your Employees

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Always knowing what your employees are doing or how they spend their time during working hours is one of the key things in making a great company and improving productivity of the people that work for you. This is way more and more employers are trying to find ways to monitor their employees and the best way to do that is to use mobile phones monitoring software like mSpy that enables you to always know what your employees are up to. 

Even though it’s not legal to monitor someone’s private phone, if your employees are using company phones that you provided and paid for you have all the legal rights to monitor the way they utilize this company asset.

The basic motive to do this is not to spy on your employees’ personal life but to monitor the way they act while they are working so it’s done only for the company’s best interest and not your own. You are using company property in order to do this and no one can accuse you of invading their privacy. Some employers even tell their employees that they are monitoring their company phone so employees are more focused on their job and on the way they act during working hours.

There are a few Acts that explain the ways and the rules which say that unauthorized interception of electronic communication devices like computer, email or phone are prohibited, but these Acts exceptions that employers can apply. These exceptions are:

•  A business owner has the right to monitor employee’s use of the company property, which includes company mobile phones, in order to improve company service, prevent illegal activities or harassment or to make sure that the employees are actually working when they are supposed to.

•  Business owner can monitor company mobile phones used by his employees if he informed his employees about this. Employees that continue to work in companies despite the fact that their phone are being monitored are giving their consent for these actions.

•  Employer has the right to spy on mobile phones that are in his possession and are only given to the employees for work purposes.

Conclusion

Once you decided to use the monitoring software the first step is to define the thing you want to monitor and then find the best app for this. A good monitoring app will let you see all call logs including the numbers associated with the call, time of call and duration. Some will let you to listen to these calls. You can also read all text messages, monitor internet activities, see all photos and videos stored on the phone and even locate the phone via GPS. After installing the app you will get a web account in which the data will be stored with unique log in details so only you can access it.

Using a monitoring app can help every employer to prevent the use of company phones for personal purposes, prevent leakage of sensitive company information, stop harassment and stop all unproductive activities that will affect the company.

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New Phone Service for Small Business Owners

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If you are a small business owner, you know the importance of cutting costs in any way you can. Having a landline used to be a necessity for many businesses but times are changing.

You can now explore great alternatives to landlines such as VoIP services. VoIP services can improve your bottom line and give your start-up the monetary boost it needs by freeing up some of your expenditures.

If you work with businesses overseas, your phone bill is probably through the roof. There are services today that allow you to make free international business calls to over 50 countries. By using VoIP, you can benefit from services such as 3-way conference calling, incoming call routing, call waiting, free international minutes and more. Small business owners and entrepreneurs should spend the time looking into these services to help save money.

Internet and voice over Internet protocol phone systems, or VoIP, has helped people all over the world lower or eliminate phone bills. If you are frustrated with your current phone service provider, consider the cheap or even free alternatives that could help get your business off the ground. Connect with clients around the world without paying hidden expenses or long distance fees. 

Businesses that have switched service providers have saved hundreds, if not thousands, by switching from a traditional landline to a VoIP service. It’s a hassle-free solution to cut company expenses without sacrificing anything. If you’re not sure if the service is right for you, there are several internet resources to help you along the way.

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Hosted PBX Service And The Small Business

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For the small business owner communication is extremely important. But he also has a budget constraint to work with. Add to this is the fact that he probably has a mobile workforce to support his daily operations and this becomes a complex scenario to deal with.

One aspect of business that he can take care of is the phone systems. With something known as hosted PBX services the small business owner can realize immense amount of cost savings and smooth and effective support for the communication needs of a mobile workforce. A hosted PBX service as the term implies is the outsourcing of telephone systems.

Such a telephone system has a wide range of features, all of which can be harnessed to enhance the productivity and operations of small-business owner. For instance, a hosted PBX service is capable of delivering auto attendant which can be programmed to deliver a very professional sounding greeting. Depending on the kind of services that the small-business owner needs, a hosted PBX service provider can also ensure easier management and the delivery of communications such as fax messages and voicemail directly to one’s email ID. The biggest advantage of choosing hosted PBX services lies in the cost savings. 

A small-business owner need not go in for upfront investment for his business phone system. Most hosted PBX service providers also offer flexible payment schemes and waive the contract as well small-business owners. Therefore a small-business owner can save money that would otherwise be put into installation and initial expenses of telephone systems. Finally, this kind of outsourcing of the telephone system can also result in enhancing the business image of a small organization. In fact you can even have a small office established in your own home but by going in for hosted PBX services you can come across as a well-established and big organization! 

Features: Some of the features and functions that are delivered through hosted PBX services include reliability and 24 x 7 emergency hotlines and support services. All this leaves a small-business owner to concentrate on his core business rather than getting distracted and frittering away constrained resources on investing and maintaining a telephone system. Most hosted PBX service providers also offer quite a few flexible plans. For instance one service provider offers flat rate plans that vary between a single user to up to 50 users. The costs can be as low as around $19 per month for each user and reach around $40 per month per user.

There can also be other discounts and promotional offers and freebies as well. For the small-business owner all of this means great savings on his telephone expenditure. Service providers also offer plans which are priced according to the usage of the telephone system. Such usage could entail or be tailored according to local calls, toll-free calls or long-distance calls. Some service providers also offer specific number of VoIP phones free of cost if you do sign up with them. Therefore it makes sense to look at as many websites of hosted PBX service providers as possible before making your decision.

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How Does Telecom Technology Affect Our Economy Today?

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Telecom technology refers to a vast array of devices and services that allows us to send information over distances. 

The most common ones that we utilize today are the telephony technologies such as land lines, satellite phones, mobile phones, and VoIP (voice over Internet protocol). Other examples include radio, television, and networks.

Economic Impact

With the use of telecom technology, coupled with effective telecom marketing strategies, many businesses have built global empires, evident in many of the online and conventional retailers today. In small places around the world, homeowners make use of their telephones to arrange and order a variety of home services that range from pizza delivery to plumbing repairs. Even in poorer communities, the use of telecommunications has enabled stores to speak to wholesalers to order and bargain prices for their goods. This is also of great help to local farmers in keeping their selves updated on the changes of the hourly prices of goods, allowing them to sell their produce at the best possible price. 

A good infrastructure of telecommunication has been linked to economic growth. However, with the increasing access of the people to the internet, there is some fear that more and more people are getting unequal access to telecom technology in various parts of the world. Despite this, is it believed that with the constant progress of the telecom technologies that we are utilizing today, we should expect the world’s economy and the world as a whole to progress along with it.

Other Impact

Telecom technology has also greatly affected social relationships. It has allowed people to stay in touch with their friends and family, whatever part of the world they may be. Communicating with the society and the world is now made easier and faster, especially with the advent of social networking websites where everything can be done from organizing social activities to even courtship. Add in the ease of SMS and telephones, staying connected have never been so much easier. 

In the world of culture, telecom technology has made the people more access to music and movies. Through television, people can watch movies right in the comfort of their own homes without having to go to the cinema or video store. Through the radio, people can listen to music without having to go to the music store. And with the internet, watching movies and listening to music is so much more convenient.

This also holds true in staying updated with the current events of the world. Compared to newspapers, television, radio, and most especially the internet have become the better and more popular source of the newest and latest news.

Conclusion

Telecom technology sure has come a long way from the use of smoke signals that the earlier people use to communicate and interact. Its use truly has made our lives so much easier and convenient. It also paved the way for businesses and societies to progress and flourish. And with its seemingly never-ending updates and advancements, it seems that we still have a lot to expect from this technology. 

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