At high altitude on a transatlantic flight, at high speed in a Thalys on its way to Brussels, and of course from the moment it arrives in the hotel room: the business traveller has never been so connected. For better, and for worse. While companies may see it as a productivity booster, this blurring of the lines between professional and private life - what the new language of business travel has labelled "blurring" - is problematic in more ways than one. " Disconnection is now at the heart of concerns about health in the workplace. "says Edouard Mongrand, marketing and sales manager and co-founder of ED2. " The lack of separation between professional and private life is a fact of life, with the direct consequence of potentially significant stress. And this stress is the main detrimental factor in companies today. ". The well-being of the business traveller is not the only issue identified by ED2, which points out that hyperconnection can also have a direct cost for the company, through roaming charges that inflate the telephone bill when sending text messages, making premium rate calls or connecting to the Internet abroad.
This is the background to the launch of Calldoor, a new tool that enables companies to control the use of smartphones. In practical terms, companies can set limits on phone use online, define the time slots concerned, and then restrict calls to certain numbers - mobile phones or contacts beginning with 08, for example. The Calldoor tool can also be used to limit Internet connections - to Wifi networks, to avoid the often exorbitant costs associated with 3G or 4G data consumption, lock certain applications, and even impose total disconnection except for emergency and priority numbers defined in advance. " We wanted to provide a response to the constraints of the hyper-use of telephones and the need for companies to better control the excesses resulting from these new communication and consumption habits. "says Edouard Mongrand.
