9 Essential Tools That Make Remote Working Easier

Technology needs to be credited for providing us with diverse enterprising tools that are enabling more and more people to work away from the confines of their office. The distances between men and their offices are beginning to vanish as they are able to work effortlessly from virtually anywhere in the world through these tools. It does not matter if an individual is sitting at his home, traveling in a car or waiting for his flight at an airport, he can still connect with his office and colleagues with ease and contribute in the same way as he would have done in an office.

 Benefits are many like saved time and costs, increased productivity and profits. The workers are mobile like never before. With so many benefits associated with such aids, it makes a perfect sense to know more about them and see how these are helping men to boost their productivity at work as well as enjoy their freedom at the same time.

 Let’s cover these rich applications one by one as they get featured in their respective fields.

1. Communication

Skype and Google+ Hangouts are the two enterprising applications that have revolutionized the field of communication.Skype is a popular tool for communicating with colleagues, friends and family members. It is an effective medium for making video and voice calls, sending messages and file sharing. You can better explain work-related matters to your colleagues through its video feature. You can also share pleasant moments with your family members and friends and seeing them face-to-face adds to your joy, no matter where in the world your friends and members are. All you need is a net connection for using it.

2. Google+ Hangouts has also got a similar set of features as are being offered by Skype, but it is more preferred for group conversations. You can send photos and emoji to friends, send them messages, make voice and video calls.

So again a good medium for enjoying fun-filled moments with your friends and family members.

3. Project Management: Basecamp and ProofHub are two project management applications that enable better and organized management over projects. Through these, projects can be executed within the time, budget and other constraints. Basecamp lies at the top among online project management applications. It puts together discussions, schedules, tasks, files and other project related information in a single centralized location. Its dashboard keeps team members updated over new activities taking place in projects.

Members’ access can be controlled to different areas in the project. It offers some various integrations with third party tools in some key areas like invoicing, accounting, time tracking and others.

4. ProofHub, an online project management system is relatively a new entrant to the project management sphere, but has made its mark in a short span of time. This application is quite easy to use and has a powerful set of features. It facilitates collaboration and communication among globally dispersed team members. They can quickly discuss over matters and resolve them fast by effectively sharing their views, ideas and suggestions. This boosts productivity at work. Tasks can be better described and distributed among team members, so they can execute them in a timely manner without forgetting them.

This task management software enables streamlined execution and precise tracking over tasks and these can be better controlled. Timesheets, Gantt chart, notes, calendar, subtasks and labels are some of its prominent features. These project management tools are pretty useful for proper management over projects and enable their timely and successful execution.

5.Finance Tools: Mint.com and Personal Capital are two rich tools for organizing your money related information. Mint.com effectively organizes and categorizes the way you spend your money on various personal needs. So you can better evaluate how productively you are spending your money. You can take quality decisions over money related matters. It clearly explains things through charts.

You can easily set your money related goals and make elaborate plans for them and execute them in a much better way. Your can better track your expenses and budget.

6. Personal Capital acts as a financial advisor. Through it you can better track your finances. You are able to see all your accounts at one single place.

Professional advice from the best of business professionals will help you to make better decisions regarding your wealth.

7. File Sharing: Dropbox is an application which allows you to edit documents, add photos and show videos from anywhere in the world with quite ease. You can put your files and documents in Dropbox and easily access it from any kind of device whether it is a tablet, phone or computer.

Documents and files remain secure and safe from any kind of accidents. You can control the access of individuals to your data. You can work with your team as if you are working on a single computer. This remarkably improves your productivity at work. You can better share your photos with friends.

8. Meetings: The GoToMeeting tool being provided by Citrix helps in conducting online meetings with co-workers and customers in an easy and cost effective manner. Through its video conferencing, conference calls and web tools, one can interact in a very personal manner with other team members and individuals.

One can participate in an online meeting from any device like PC, iPhone or MAC and others from anywhere in the world and better discuss over work related matters. This improves productivity at work as well as reduces costs and time. The need to travel for physical meetings gets significantly reduced.

9. Backup: CrashPlan is an enterprising tool that enables safe and secure backup of important files including the music, photos and documents in a computer at a local drive, offsite or in the cloud and you can effortlessly retrieve them whenever you need them.

Files can also be accessed from mobile. Your data remains safe and protected from any accidents.

 Here we gave you a glimpse of some really useful tools that have enabled more and more people to work away from their offices and achieve better productivity at work. You can go through them and choose the ones that best suit your needs and interests. These tools will make a great difference to your work and you will be able to enjoy your work even more.

Author Bio:

A project and business manager by profession, Sharon loves to write about ways to simplify work through a project management software. She tries to provide an insight into the best project management tools out there and how they help people in improving their productivity and efficiency, as well as save time to focus on what’s more important.