Welches Mobiltelefon sollten Ihre Angestellten nutzen?

Kategorie: Marc St-Arnaud

Letztens saß ich um 15 Uhr im Flugzeug. Wir warteten 30 Minuten auf der Startbahn. Mir fiel auf, dass mein Sitznachbar mit seinem iPhone Musik gehört hat.

The other day at 3pm, I was on an airplane. We waited on the runway for 30 minutes. I noticed that the person sitting next to me was listening to music on his iPhone. After I finished replying to my emails and talking to a few business colleagues, I asked him a few questions. “What do you do? Where did you go?”  He answered, “I’m a new executive in my firm. I went on a business trip.”

It was not my place, but I did it anyway. I told him to look around, to look at the other business people working. They were using their laptops and BlackBerry phones to do “work.” I then asked him a few more questions. “Do you manage people?  Are they productive?”

Then I asked him, “What do you use your iPhone for?” He told me that he used it about 65% for music, 20% for games/apps, 10% for phone and 5% for email.” I wondered if he reported to anyone about his unit productivity.

I then asked him the big question, “What phone should your team use in your business to be productive?”

I am not sure if I am correct in my thinking, but as a business owner, anyone I see using an iPhone for business is not really doing business. I cannot figure out why companies provide or allow iPhones to their employees. It is like providing your employees with a powerful gaming computer or Playstation as a desktop computer. Yes, they can both do emails, but where is the business logic behind it?

I also find it coincidental that the iPhone was released in July 2008 and the economy started to slow down at the end of 2008. Could it be that the Apple iPhone is behind the current loss of productivity in America?

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