7 Apps To Create A Productive Remote Team

Remote work isn’t just a trend anymore. It’s here to stay forever. Working from home and flexible schedules offered by remote work are good for health, mood, and productivity of your employees. Y

Your company can save money on office rent and equipment as well. Here is a list of the must-have cross-platform applications for productive work of remote teams.

Google Drive – A Cloud for Everything

It’s cloud storage for personal and corporate purposes that allows you to store, backup, manage, and share access to files with an unlimited number of users. It provides you with 15GB of free space, which is more than enough for small and medium company documents.

Google Drive is integrated into thousands of applications. You can use it to share any file types from device storage. It’s also a default sharing option on web platforms. It’s easy to access your account from any operating system via a web browser. You can also benefit from a wide range of Google Suite interconnected applications.

Trello – Plans, Schedules, Lists, and More

With Trello, you can create and prioritize actions for teams and individuals. The core of the planner is the Kanban system that was popularized by Taishi Ohno, who’s considered to be the founder of the Toyota Production System.

Trello boards include lists of tasks where you can attach detailed descriptions with files, documents, links, and media. Admitted users can comment on tasks to discuss them with others. You can also label tasks with colors, tags, or images for faster navigation.

This app supports a wide range of integrations, including Slack, Google Drive, and Zoom. This makes file sharing and communication much more convenient. You can install Trello on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac OS.

Slack – A Swiss Knife for Communication

Slack is designed to be integrated into nearly any app that you and your employees use. You can create private and public chat threads to discuss any topic separately. Such a “branched” approach makes communication spam-free as all messages belong to specified topics.

The integrated App Store allows you to get hundreds of tools for interacting with apps on your desktop and mobile devices. As a result, you have a personalized communication hub suitable for almost any business purposes. Using Slack bots and IFTTT, you can automate recurring processes to save time. Slack is available for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac OS.

TeamViewer Quick Support – Remote Device Help

TeamViewer QP is a specialized client by TeamViewer creators. You can receive and provide remote help with devices, using the app. Unlike the mother-app, it lets you not only to connect two devices but also to have the full-access remote control.

It comes in very helpful when you need emergency help. Programmer or technician can connect your PC, Mac, or smartphone from any device and fix issues. The desktop version doesn’t require complicated installation, so you can also offer it to your customers to provide them help with your products.  

Zoom – Massive Video Conferences

Live video conferences require everyone to be engaged simultaneously. That’s why they’re considered to be a powerful organizational method. With Zoom, you can gather up to 500 people to participate in a meeting, webinar, or discussion. Moreover, you can invite up to 10,000 inactive spectators. As a result, you can apply it to businesses of any scale. It works on Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android.

1Password – Safe Way to Share Corporate Passwords

This password manager is developed to store and protect passwords to all accounts and apps. It’s a form-filling and secure payment tool as well. It can help you share access to accounts, folders, and documents without sharing confidential data in social networks and messengers.

All operations with passwords are permanent in 1Password history, so you can always check what your employees do and when. If any issues occur, the app reports about them on the dashboard. You can sync your password base on iOS, Android, Mac, PC.

ProofHub – Convenient Project Management

This is a powerful service that serves the same purpose as Trello but offers more controls. It allows you to create and manage team tasks and projects. Automatic online reporting makes it possible to track the progress of each team and employee.

You can loop users to create quick chats upon tasks and topics. It’s a good alternative for Slack threads that may be too cumbersome. With centralized access control, you can assign roles to every employee. Add access tags to directories or files instead of sending passcodes or links to multiple users.

The Bottom Line

With these apps aboard, you can start a company of any size and feel sure that you established reliable means for communication, file flow, management, and even tech support. You may think that some of them are rather expensive, but traditional office renting is much costlier.