In an organization, the telephonic communication needs of each employee will be different. It is very unlikely that the business phone services needed to perform the day-to-day work by each employee of your organization is the same. For example, an employee representing the sales or marketing department may have to travel a lot or stay out of the office for meeting clients most of the time. Whereas, the staff from the human resource, admin, or quality departments are usually stationed in the office. In the first case, having a cell phone that can be carried around places will be the right option while in the latter case, opting for a business landline phone service would be ideal.

Moreover, be it a business landline phone service or a cell phone, it is important to map the communication needs of each employee before deciding who will be issued a phone or not? Does each employee require a personal phone? This needs to be understood depending on the size and scale of the functioning of your business. The number of phones to be assigned to the employees can be limited to a particular department or a team which can help save money on the business phone service plan that will be eventually selected by you. Some questions you need to ask yourself before selecting from the several business phone services available in the market are listed below.

• How many senior management are there in the organization? Cell phones will enable them to be reachable in case of an emergency or a situation of crisis management.
• Does your organization’s sales force require to be mobile or do they need to be meeting clientele most of the time? It would not make sense to equip them with both a business phone service and a cell phone to manage their job which will only add to the hassle and costs of running business phone services.
• For the employees who have been assigned with business cell phones, how much calls or text messages or data do they consume? Depending on their time spent away from the office and the primary utilization of the phone for making business calls or data usage to check emails and access files on the move, you can choose a business phone service plan that provides the appropriate package of talk time and data services to meet the communication needs of your business.