The Electronics of a Modern Office: High Speed Scanners to Smartphones

The modern office looks a lot different from its predecessors of about fifty years ago. The typewriter has evolved into a laptop, the rotary-dial phone into the softphone and the office chair has become much more ergonomic. What else?

High speed scanners are a great way to upload images and documents onto your computer. Similarly, copy machines still are the best way to physically reproduce an image. Printers have become faster, smaller and more accessible than ever. All your important garbage you probably want to shred. Office shredders are the way to protect yourself from identity thieves and other con artists. Even clocking in has changed - no more punch cards; instead it's all done online, or even cooler, with hand scans.

Softphones and smartphones are the primary ways we communicate with our voices. But they also allow us to send quick messages without having to speak directly to anyone. Getting voicemail via email and being able to access your business emails in your pocket on the go means that business is streamlined to be more effective and less back and forth. International conferences can be held via VoIP in order to save time and money. And there are lots of special features that come with these technologies, such as three-way calling, area code switches and music while waiting.

Laptops have replaced desktops as the way we compute, largely due to their mobility. We can take them on the go, and do all of our work with a battery life that stretches for often more than three hours, and that's while running multiple programs. With the preponderance of email and instant messaging, laptops are the main way we share information with each other. However, tablets are emerging along with smartphones as alternative computing tools. Even more geared to the traveling businessman, these little computers work as e-books, email retrievers and media players. Lightweight and fast, they act as a medium between smartphones and laptops. And you can expect them to get even smaller and more powerful in the near future.

Cameras too, these days, are practical pieces of office equipment. They all record video in hi-def and make it easy to put videos and pictures online to update your business' social profiles, which are also relatively important these days.

All of these changes in the modern office don't necessarily mean that business is getting easier. In fact, it may be more complicated now than ever before, thanks to the myriad social networks, burgeoning technologies and constantly updated emails and messages. But the sooner you learn how to use these amenities, the better a business you will run.

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