Kanobi Communications | Jacksboro, Tennessee | Promotional Products for Everyone

If You Can't Beat Them, Make Them Safe

Increasingly, as our work and home lives overlap more and more employees are using technology that isn't provided by the company's IT department and probably isn't even approved to be able to carry, transfer and access files, communications, etc., that employees need to work. Many an IT department in a company has tried to hunt down and outlaw these rogue technologies because they often pose a security risk. This unfortunately probably just sends them underground, but doesn't stop them. Your employees have great intentions; they are trying to work more and make their work – home lives blend. In order to promote your employees efforts to be more productive, develop a promotion to bring these technologies out in the open and get IT departments to help employees find safe ways to work. On the IT side, develop an incentive program for figuring out how employees really work and ways to accommodate them, while maintaining security. Maybe smaller rewards are given for each employee an IT person sits down with; and bigger rewards given for each solution. Or hold a contest in which the employees vote on IT solutions to their problems. On the employee side, create an awareness program of the security risk they might be posing and entice them to be open and honest; and to have a stake in helping IT to be successful in this arena. Attending a Career Fair? Create an incentive for potential applicants to attend by devising some type of draw and promotional products are a great way to do this. It might be simply an incentive attendees will receive (some type of logoed merchandise that would appeal to the job category you are trying to fill) or you might offer an in-house expert to share new methods or new insights in the field. Don't forget to target "relaunchers" those stay-at-home moms who might be ready to return to the workforce. Once overlooked because of the gaps in their employment histories, they are now being wooed by companies as a great pool of potential. They not only have experience in their field, but have also gained a wealth of knowledge from the demands of raising a family. Always send attendees home with some type of logoed product that is specifically useful in their field or profession. For example, a simple pen on a lanyard is very useful to nurses.