How and Why to Restrict Employee Texting at Work

No doubt texting is an incredible discovery in the modern telecommunication that has effectively made its place in our lives and quite smartly taken over all the other methods of communication inch by inch but it comes with nocuous qualities that cannot be denied either.

Texting is no less than a drug paralyzing the sensibility of its users.

For instance, an office environment can totally be changed into a pseudo workplace with every single member on your staff texting all the time. However, harmless it appears; texting has most deliberate power to cause damage. Just imagine an entire staff not doing anything at all and only chatting through the text messages, wouldn’t that be damaging towards the productivity of the employees and profit of the firm as a whole.

As the communication through texting doesn’t require anyone to speak out anything, it is easy and more effective at places where noise is not expected and this is why it has made a special place in most offices where employees stay in touch with their friends and relations and at times even with their colleagues in the other department or just a few cubicles away through texting.

Well, there can even be some far more serious issues that texting can lead to.

And it will always be a difficult task to make out what the staff of a certain workplace is really busy doing with their files, and note taking booklets spread over the desks and excel spreadsheets wide open on their computers and “we-are-always-so-busy” looks almost always present on their faces; even when they have their tiny mobile phones below all these mess all set for text chatting all the time!

This trouble gets double when you’re the one who gave the cell phones to your staff and quite consciously announced that it would be perfectly all right for them to communicate through the text messages: though it was only for official purposes.

The menace caused by texting at work place

This includes loads of troubling outcomes. Apart from the too obvious and pretty commonly known fact that employees waste away their time and devote all their energy into meaningless communication, there still are more damaging results of uncontrolled texting habits of an office staff.

Of course, the time flies pretty soon and work remains almost pending all the time. You know your employees are working but you just don’t know that even when your staff is working why the work is always on the pending mode.

Or let’s take a slightly different scene in which your staff is always communicating with your clients and customers or the prospective customer through calls, mails and the most direct way to reach people – through text chatting. But even then your sales are kind of not very satisfactory and the customers are giving out somewhat rude reviews on your products, why is it so?

Well, this happens when your staff is texting but not to the people they are entitled to, and when they neglect all the other things just for the sake of staying loyal to their texting addiction.

But there still is one more thing that texting can do to your company. And it is more dangerous than lowering your company’s profit by ten times. So, you may have some unscrupulous people on your staff who can do anything just for some extra cash by the end of the month! Even if this means stealing away company’s secret information and passing it on to wrong people or selling away your crucial data to your competitors; these people are ready to do it. Though this kind of thing involves risk and fear; texting makes everything easy for your disloyal employees.

Can you stop this menacing practice ever?

Just the way everything else on earth can be controlled, calmed down, and cautiously handled (of course, leaving out the things like Metroid falling on earth!); the issue of employee texting at work can also be handled very well.

This won’t require you to get enrolled in university and start getting educated about rocket science! You will simply have to keep a close watch on your staff’s cell phone activities.  Of course, you can make some kind of not-so-happy-sounding announcements like too much of cell phone communication can mean a fine or delay in salary hikes. You can even decide to sit with your HR and write some special policies for your staff. But there again are two things – if things go really too harsh – either your employees will start searching other workplace to apply in or will get smarter to make a perfect fool out of their supervisor even when they have stringent policies.

Well, something which really has the potential to rescue your office discipline and decorum from falling apart and things going out in really smooth way is to install monitoring software on employee cell phones and keep a close watch on who they are communicating with and what for. You’ll know if their text messages are really sent to your customers telling them about the latest discounts and benefits or they are simply being sent to friends to plan out shopping after the office.

You’ll know if your employees are sacrificing some important data or information crucial for your business and take the needed action to save your business from the ruinous activities of the unscrupulous employees. And the advanced cell phone tracking software will not just keep a close track of the employees’ texting at work but will even record all the other communication and various other activities taking place on the target phone.

So, don’t waste time over dilly-dallying about what to do, start tracking your employees’ cell phone activities and bring them back on track!