Remote Working

Go mobile: Working on the road

In business, time is money. And whenever you’re on a train, or driving, you’re spending time without earning cash. Worse still, if you’re the only person who can make responsible decisions, business is at a standstill until you return.

With mobile technologies, you can:

• Use that dead time more productively
• Continue to manage your business affairs away from the office
• Still look after customers when you’re not physically available
• Perform useful functions outside the office as well as in it

Will I really be more efficient with all this technology?

According to the experts, yes. Research from YouGov for T-Mobile recently said:

“This is all set to continue, as more desktop functionality finds its way into mobile phones. From tube maps to sat-nav, presentations to office admin (oh, and plenty of games too), mobile devices are catching up with their desktop cousins. The costs of starting to use these technologies on the road are minimal and the benefits, as evidenced by these figures, are substantial. Indeed, smaller companies have most to gain from milking business value from every spare travelling moment.”

• 83% of small businesses were able to respond to customer queries more quickly once they had deployed mobile technology
• 58% processed orders faster
• 70% of small businesses could process orders faster when using Wi-Fi hotspots, the fastest form of mobile internet