Comments on: Mobile Mendacity.

By: bil

bil — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:42:09 +0000

give them all BlackBerrys and be done with it. Not that I used to work for BlackBerry or hold any stock. Course not.

By: Andrew Duffin

Andrew Duffin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:17 +0000

In principle using mobiles is fine, as the Elephant points out above.

All businesses, from the smallest to the largest, use them very widely and find them effective.

What’s wrong here is probably just the good old “Simple Shopper” (H/T Wat Tyler). A marginally-competent procurement department would probably have got the same service for half the cost.

By: Bugger (the Panda)

Bugger (the Panda) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:34:44 +0000

Alan

Pick a “mobile” worker and have him executed.

If the work rate of the others goes up, it has worked.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:58:31 +0000

If performance has improved beyond what about 30-40 extra council workers could provide, or the council is managing the same workload with a similar number less staff, it would be worth it wouldn’t it?

How you would discern whether or not the mobiles have had the desired value adding effect I have no idea.

By: Bugger (the Panda)

Bugger (the Panda) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:38:24 +0000

Can’t they get a deal whereby all calls fro the Council’s exchange and the individual mobile phones, and vice-versa, in the UK are free, ss are calls phone to phone.

Thereafter normal call charges apply and the phone holder is liable unless they can detail why?

Networks would give their eye teeth for a near 5,000 unit contract.

It works in companies I know about.

By: Joe Public

Joe Public — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:22:42 +0000

If a pager is so useful Anna, I trust they’re standard issue in your family.

Of course not, because the phone allows two-way communication, not just an instruction to return to base.

[Think of the productivity increase when an operative phones in to get details of his/her next job, rather than returning to base to find out.]

By: Anna Raccoon

Anna Raccoon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:12:15 +0000

lenko,
The 4,860 is the total number of employees with phones, which represents 39% of the workforce.

Details revealed under the Freedom of Information Act show the total bill

By: lenko

lenko — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:26:49 +0000

So is it

By: elephant never forgets

elephant never forgets — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:58:57 +0000

Not excusing the size of the bill but having dealt with pager networks the costs of the “outgoing” messages and having to have TWO sets of infrastructure support can mean that it is cheaper to only use the mobile phone network.Also the “all inclusive” cost of paying back expenses incured in using home phones for work purposes can also mean a mobile is cheaper overall