By Adam Turteltaub

Mobile devices are terrible if you need to retrieve information from them. Employees hate handing them over and there are a ton of apps in which data disappears automatically. All in all, it’s just a nightmare.

But, the government still wants you to track what employees are saying, and you may have to produce that data.

Matt Rasmussen (LinkedIn), CEO, and Ryan Frye (LinkedIn), Chief Innovation Officer of ModeOne want to discourage you from falling into despair over the prospect. Employee resistance can be overcome by taking a targeted approach and using electronic tools that only seek business-related data.

Even before you get to that point, though, they recommend taking the time to train the workforce about what rights the company has to the data so this doesn’t come as an intrusive surprise.

Listen in to learn more about how to make retrieving mobile device data a bit less painful.