By Ashley Caputo, TMCnet Web Editor

Often when you hear TV advertisements that say you can work from home and earn a living as if you were in an office, we usually think it is a scam. But with the new innovation technologies that have helped created what we now call the ‘virtual office,’ these types of working environments are in fact real.

With virtual phone systems in place, users can transform their landline phones or mobile devices into an office where they can forward and answer calls, join conferences and set-up a voicemail system as if they were sitting in an office; and with a mobile device, users can even video conference, send faxes and create PDFs.

The opportunity to create an office from your home or mobile device businesses gives more users the ability to work remotely. The most recent company to make headlines is the Russian start-up Workle, which has created a platform that allows Russian citizens to work from home. And no, this is not a scam or false advertisement, especially when it has just received $3.5 million in a second investment to validate its initiative.

Workle offers users the ability to work in a variety of occupations over the Internet in a condensed process as follows:

1. Choose a profession
2. Complete online training
3. Expand your customer base
4. Set-up a bank account for your office

After this start-up process, it will offer advice and information on how to grow the online company that a user chose, and will also notify the user as he or she begins to climb higher in that career ladder from a consultant to a leading expert. With an online office in place like the one Workle offers, users can expand their equipment by purchasing virtual phone systems, like the ones offered by Phone (News - Alert).com.

Phone.com offers phones with a unique combination of assets that include extremely high quality service, robust features and functionality and competitive pricing. With a toll free number a user can connect its virtual staff members in departments like sales and marketing no matter their geographical location, and dialers can directly contact them though an extension given from an audio menu. This allows users to help grow their business and add new numbers and extension to their virtual office through their online account.

For those users who do not have a landline phone or would rather use their mobile phone, Phone.com (News - Alert) also offers a way to make and receive business calls with its Mobile Office app, using a designated number as the caller ID. Users can also listen, view and manage voicemail and faxes, as well as send and receive SMS text.

So, with all the innovational tools at hand, users have the ability to create digital offices through companies like Workle that are not only functional, but compatible with the new technologies that have begun to take over the workplace. For more information on Phone.com’s virtual phone system, click here.