Our nation’s sick and feeble economy has weakened America’s workforce and lengthened the unemployment line. One company after another is donning the farewell frown as it dispenses pink slips to an unprecedented number of employees. But sometimes you have to cut off the arm to save the soldier, so to speak, and layoffs may be necessary in order to keep the businesses alive.
However, these aren’t your grandfather’s layoffs. Joe worker doesn’t pack up his anniversary clock and lucky ballpoint pen and hit the road — there’s a whole gamut of accoutrements that must be accounted for, among them are his mobile devices. Channel partners providing mobile device management solutions can step in during this layoff fever and tend to a business’ device health.
“By their nature, mobile devices are much harder to track and manage than wired devices,” said Denise Chapman, director of marketing for TEM provider Veramark Technologies Inc., which integrates MDM with its VeraSMARTTEM offer. “As employees come and go, organizations must be able to rapidly and accurately update mobile device assignments and plans, update inventories, validate invoices against updated information and do it all in the most efficient manner possible.”
Chapman explained using wireless management solutions can provide a company with essential capabilities such as mobile device moves, adds, changes and disconnects, and workforce fluctuations only increase the need for this centralized management.
