Digitalized tools which aid professionals to communicate, interact, coordinate, organize and analyze their works from remote locations are popularly termed as remote productivity tools. These web technologies help people to work orderly even from remote locations. There are various remote productivity tools available in markets, but some exceptional and outstanding ones have been discussed below:
1. SLACK
Slack is a messaging program developed by an American international software company named slack technologies in 2013. It is a software concretely built for the workplace purposes. It is expedient to know that:
- Slack mainly provides IRC approached features.
- It provides tenacious chat rooms which are categorized by topics and also offers private groups and enables direct messaging options too.
- According to its 2019 report, it has more than 10 million users worldwide.
- Slack contains trouble free searchable contents.
- Slack is a freemium licensed product which is available in all platforms such as iOS (13 or above), Linux (8.0 or above), windows (8.1 or above).
2. GOOGLE DRIVE
Google drive developed by google is a file storage and synchronization resource launched in 2012. It enables users to upload, store and share files among various devices. Some remarkable features available in it are:
– Google Docs
Google docs enables users to create and edit documents and access it user friendly from their web browsers. Multiple users can easily coordinate and organize their work using google docs.
– Google Spreadsheets
Google spreadsheets is also a similar free web program as google docs. Using it people can easily create, edit and analyze various types of data online.
– Google Slides
This is a web-based presentation tool that allows users to create and organize presentations as well as collaborate with others.
These features are absolutely free and are accessible with a free google account. Google Drive is available in all major operating systems such as windows, android, MacOS and iOS. As of 2018, Google Drive has 1 billion users worldwide. Google is currently headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
3. TRELLO
Trello is a web based, Kanban method of listing application, developed by an Australian based software company’s subsidiary, Trello enterprises in 2011. This application is helpful in generating work boards and scheduling it. Users can customize their tasks in between according to their schedules. Some purposes of Trello in personal and professional fields are bulletin boards, planning, management, gaming and web designing. It’s a freemium licensed application accessible in windows, MacOS, android and iOS. Trello has reached 50 million users worldwide.
4. HUBSTAFF
Hub staff is a workforce management software suite created by a remote company in 2012. The core values of this companies are accountability, freedom and transparency. This software helps users in time tracking, management of their payrolls, productivity surveillance etc. Also, it’s a freemium licensed software commonly accessible in desktop browsers and mobile apps. Hubstaff has over 40 thousand customers across the world.
5. ZOOM
Zoom meetings also known as zoom is an outsourced, video conferencing software program developed by zoom video communications in 2011. It’s a freemium licensed software which allows users up to 100 to attend a 40-minute time restricted video conferring for free. The maximum number of people allowed to participate are 1000 up to 30 hours, which comes under an upgraded plan of zoom. In addition it’s clearly accessible in windows (7 or above), android (5.0 or above), iOS (8 or above). It was the 5th most downloaded app worldwide in 2020 with 477.3 million overall downloads. Today zoom has over 300 million active users all around the world.
Final Thought
These remote productivity tools, being found merely 10 years ago, were highly efficient during the covid times. These technologies helped us to visualize and have a real time user experience of working together from various remote locations around the world. As socializing became restricted during this pandemic, we immensely relied on these software and programs to complete our tasks efficiently on time. Without departing from our daily routines of learning and experiencing, remote productivity tools are playing a very important role among us to keep us updated on our work.
At Shrewd Virtual Assistants, we understand that any tool/application is only effective if the user utilizes its capability to the fullest. Therefore, we ensure that our remote team understands every software accordingly to help our clients attain maximum ROI. Let us talk and see how we can help you.
