Your mobile phone is a very personal choice that you have made. It might sync seamlessly with other devices that you own such as your tablet, laptop, desktop or TV. You may love the brand, you find the operating system completely intuitive or it just looks cool!
So when your IT manager in their wisdom provides you with a work mobile that is a completely different brand, set up, separate to everything else that you use, it can feel very awkward. Even texting from a new device can feel completely alien.
Lots of people in this situation try to adopt a new way of working and communicating but fail. So the phone sits in a drawer gathering dust. The business pays for the contract which on average for a business phone in the UK is £32 per month and the user ends up giving their personal number to colleagues and customers and inevitably answering calls and texts at inconvenient times. Nobody wins here.
With another number you can add a second line to your personal mobile, the one that you chose! So no more trying to master a new device. Work calls will come through clearly marked and with a completely different ringtone to your personal calls so you can answer them appropriately whilst you’re working and divert them to voicemail when you’re not.
There is a clear, set cost each month so you can easily make an expense claim if you’d like to and your business will save around £20 each month as will no longer need to purchase a second mobile. This way everybody wins!
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