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Free Tools To Support Home Working
Posted on Mar 27, 2020
A change from operational premises to home-working will look very different for each business.
As a business owner, you may already be working remotely or from home and will experience little changes in the way you operate. For many, Government advice will have encouraged business leaders to take the decision to close offices and have some or all of their employees working from home.
If this is the case for your business, here are some tools which could help make working from home, work for you. If you’re able to get up to speed with these collaboration tools as a business, it could save time overall by creating more efficiencies in your operation.
FOR FILES STORAGE AND SHARING
Google Drive, Dropbox Basic and Microsoft OneDrive all provide generous amounts of space on their servers for free, with Google offering up to 15GB.
These tools are especially useful if team members are unable to access a central drive while working remotely, and can help avoid duplication and confusion around version control by ensuring everyone’s working from or on the same information.
FOR COLLABORATION
Any software or channel that allows you to create and organise different conversations will help prevent important messages from getting lost in a stream of emails.
The collaboration tool Slack allows you to do just this, with 5GB of free storage, and integrates with file-sharing tools including Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox.
WhatsApp could be a useful “quick fix” to keep all team members in the loop, and depending on the size and operation of your business, may be enough without having to explore other software with which your team may not be familiar. It even has a desktop version which can sync with mobile devices. You can also use WhatsApp to send encrypted texts to up to 250 people, which is a quick way to send important updates to staff if you’re concerned they may not be picking up texts or email.
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