Video conferencing is a must-have remote work tool. Communication face-to-face is important working isolated from home. We recommend ZOOM. Find some tips on how to communicate with remote work tools here. Team Communication creates transparency about your teams availability and enables semi-synchronized communication. We use Slack. File Management sharing files between team members enables collaborative working. For security reasons, the sharing-model needs to be user-based. Google Drive is what we suggest. Project Management having a project plan is vital for delivering any project. Trello makes virtual project planning and tracking really simple. Virtual Whiteboard creative work within a team is always a challenge. Using MIRO you have a virtual Whiteboard which allows real-time collaboration. You can register and use all these remote work tools for free. Free usage is limited by volume such that small companies will pay nothing at all.
Torsten Knoefel
Millions of companies worldwide including global players like Google, Microsoft, Twitter, JPMorgan, Apple, KPMG, Nike, Salesforce & Spotify have switched to remote work. From the UK to the US, from China to Singapore, even more companies rolled out mandatory work from home policies amid the spread of COVID-19. Realistically this shift to remote work will become the new normal for many of us for the foreseeable future. And it will, very likely, change the work environment permanently. A 2019 study by online brand development agency Buffer found that 99% of their respondents would like to work from home at least some of their time. After this pandemic goes away, Work From Home will stay and be the new normal. You joined the global Work From Home movement enabling your staff to work remotely due to COVID-19. In the span of a few days, you got your IT infrastructure in place making your team fully operational from home. VPN access, video conferencing, instant messaging, a COVID-19 IT emergency desk, you name it. Your IT team made the impossible possible. After a tremendous effort, they did achieve what had been thought undoable a couple of weeks ago. (if you are not technically ready yet, here: is a set of proven applications you need at minimum) You believe that by having all of the technology in place, you are now perfectly set. The Time calls it “World’s Largest Work From Home Experiment”. You are part of it, but without the preparation the big […]