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Useful Tips for Remote Collaboration
Virtual meeting platforms are becoming popular as they enable companies to hold team meetings, conferences, share video messages, increase employee communication, and hold live celebrations

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Virtual meeting platforms are becoming popular as they enable companies to hold team meetings, conferences, share video messages, increase employee communication, and hold live celebrations
Fremont, CA: The coronavirus pandemic has compelled companies around the world to work remotely. While remote working has proved to increase employee productivity, many companies are facing challenges in remote collaboration, managing a smooth workflow, and overcoming technical issues.
Let us look at some useful tips for remote collaboration:
Sharing Files and Data
Project-management technology is beneficial for companies that are working remotely. This technology-enables tools can help users easily work with other tools as well as track and manage projects.
Virtual Meeting Platform
Virtual meeting platforms are becoming popular as they enable companies to hold team meetings, conferences, share video messages, increase employee communication, and hold live celebrations. There are various virtual platforms available in the market, including Google Hangouts, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Loom is another application lets users share messages via video. Another traditional video-conferencing tool is Skype.
Unified Communications
Unified communications is a phone system that can integrate multiple communication methods within a company. It unifies and automates human and device communication. Cisco is among such companies that provides unified communications and collaboration tools.
Managing Teams’ To-Do List
It may seem difficult to manage and follow up teams’ everyday tasks. Some well-known project-management platform enables managers to share their team’s to-do lists. Some of these platforms are Microsoft To-Do, Trello, and TickTick.
Tracking Teams’ Time
Tracking teams’ time is essential to improve distributed teams’ productivity. Time tracking can also benefit employees as it would help them better understand where their time goes. Popular time tracking apps are Toggl and Clockify.
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