Mobile phone use by Council employees

mobile-phones

The York Council has revealed that it rents nearly 2000 mobile phones and other mobile devices for use by its workforce.

Mostly these are Nokia 113, Samsung Galaxy Young and Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini models.

It has now decided to implement a management system for them called air watch

The Council has fewer than 4000 employees with 3500 registered for IT helpdesk support.

The relatively high ratio of corporate phones to employee numbers has not been the subject of any recent review by the Councils audit committee.