How to Make Work from Anywhere Possible for Small Businesses

Employees heavily rely on their devices, including laptops, media equipment and headsets, to maintain digital productivity. Here are four benefits your team can experience with the right technology.

While working away from the office can help productivity, it comes with some distractions.

At coworking areas, cafes or homes, employees may encounter background noise, patchy Wi-Fi and distracting people that may cause them to lose focus. This may affect their ability to take video meetings, get on audio calls and maximize productivity.

To minimize distractions, Jabra’s Evolve2 series offers a range of headphones that can help provide a focus-friendly environment. Their key benefits include the following:

• Active noise cancellation: Decrease background noise to improve music and call quality in outdoor settings.
• Longer battery life: Extend work hours with an uninterrupted battery suitable for occasions when a power source may be beyond reach.
• Comfortable ergonomics: Ergonomic headphones can help prevent aching ears or headaches during long meetings and conference calls.
• Enhanced audio quality: Collaborate with coworkers or take client calls without missing a beat on important conversations.

At the same time, Samsung’s Galaxy Book5 Pro makes remote collaboration more effective with its networking and battery capabilities.

• Wi-Fi 7 compatible: Ensure low-latency network performance for meetings and calls so you can collaborate without disruptions on the go.
• Extended battery life: Get up to 25 hours of battery life with the new Book5 Pro that helps make working from a remote location easier.
• Live captions support: Get live translation and captions in English with in-built AI when meeting with people from different regions in multiple languages.
• Samsung DeX support: Easily pair peripherals with Samsung phones and tablets using Samsung DeX which allows sharing presentations, videos and messages on the go.

As per the CDW 2025 Canadian Cybersecurity Study, cyberattacks on business IT assets have been on the rise with corporate-owned PCs and laptops making up 45 percent of attacks.

SMBs need to be careful of data leakage or cyberattackers entering their IT environment while their employees work remotely. But strengthening security can be challenging as devices constantly move in and out of the office’s security perimeter.

The Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro addresses these security concerns comprehensively through its built-in Samsung Knox platform. It offers SMB users several security features without third-party software.

• Quick Share with Private Sharing: Securely transfer files between Galaxy devices using blockchain encryption.
• Dedicated security hardware: Enhance protection against unauthorized access and external threats.
• Real-time data shielding: Active monitoring and protection of sensitive information and employee data.
• Secure cross-device connectivity: Ensure safe interactions between multiple devices, strengthening overall data privacy.

From presentations to videos and long documents, employees go through a variety of multimedia content on their devices. SMBs with hybrid workers need devices with rich multimedia capabilities that can improve employee experience.

Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro offers several enhanced multimedia features that can meet the needs of SMB employees, as described below:

• Dynamic AMOLED display: Ensures vivid, clear visuals with a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate for fluid presentations, improving visual impact and clarity in client and team communications.
• Anti-reflective Corning Gorilla Glass: Provides improved readability even in bright settings, allowing users to confidently present anywhere without visibility issues.
• Staggered HDR webcam: Delivers clear, vibrant video quality during calls, ensuring SMB users maintain a professional presence in client meetings and virtual collaborations.
• Quad-speaker system with Dolby Atmos: Offers immersive, high-quality audio, making video calls and presentations more engaging and effective.

Additionally, Jabra’s Evolve2 range of headsets, especially Evolve2 50, offers enhanced audio quality for all sorts of environments. The headphones help employees consume content in a distraction-free way by bringing office-like audio quality to wherever they work.

Many offices feature high-end PCs and desktops that can handle rigorous workloads and come with advanced processors. But with laptops, it’s difficult to pack the same performance in a smaller, portable form factor.

This may create a gap between the employee's experience in the office and when working remotely. SMBs would want to ensure that employees have access to the same computing resources, be they laptops or conference hardware, inside and out of the office.

Samsung offers several computing capabilities that enhance performance with the help of a new chipset and dedicated NPU in their Galaxy Book5 Pro models.

• Intel Core Ultra processor (series 2): Provides powerful processing capabilities, enabling employees to efficiently handle complex tasks and heavy workloads, maintaining performance consistency regardless of location.
• Rapid charging capabilities: Delivers up to 35% battery charge in just 30 minutes, ensuring users can quickly power up their devices even during short breaks, keeping work momentum intact.
• Copilot key: Offers immediate, personalized AI assistance at the press of a dedicated keyboard button with the underlying hardware for AI processes.
• Neural processing unit (NPU): Powerful NPU delivers up to 47 trillion operations per second (TOPS), enabling swift execution of complex AI tasks.

Jabra, in addition to their headphones, offers conference speakers that ensure onsite and remote workers have the same level of quality for meetings. The Jabra Speak2 series offers the following benefits:

• Full duplex calls: Enables both speaker and microphone functions for crisp call quality for employees working from the office.
• Conference room clarity: Cuts out noise and distractions from conference calls, enabling teams to maintain parallel voice quality.
• Plug-and-play connectivity: Connects easily to laptops with USB A connectivity with easy setup.

CDW Canada closely works with Canadian small and medium businesses to tailor technology solutions to their specific needs. Our product expertise and deep product knowledge will help you overcome concerns like budget allocation, post-sales support and technology integration.

Whether you’re building a remote workforce or enabling your employees to stay productive from anywhere, CDW offers personalized support. We understand your technology needs and can help you find and implement suitable solutions.