Remote working

The range of portable office technology that is now available ensures that no matter your location, all of the expected office services are at your fingertips. With remote working becoming the norm, developing your own digital rucksack is now child's play.

As every mobile worker will travel with their smartphone or tablet, expanding the capabilities of these devices can enable you to create a powerful and efficient office on the move. The Tascam iM2 Stereo Microphone is a good example. Turning to the camera, lens accessories are available from Photojojo designed for Android phones and the iPhone.

Gilles Bouchard, Livescribe chairman and CEO, says: "With the Livescribe Wi-Fi smartpen, anyone can easily capture important ideas, presentations and conversations in the most natural way - on paper - and they automatically appear right where they want them - on their mobile devices and personal computers."

More traditional data capturing devices are also available: The NeatReceipts scanner is designed to capture - not surprisingly - till receipts, but can also be used to scan any paper-based documents.

With the numbers of mobile office workers continuing to rise, and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) taking hold, building the perfect remote office is now a commercial imperative few small businesses can ignore.