7 Productivity-Boosting Services for Remote Workers

Working from home or remotely was a concept that was applied in professions such as social media expertise, software or graphic design until recently, but was still approached with caution. Many companies preferred employees to be physically present in the office rather than working from home. However, especially the change storm that began with the coronavirus process suddenly brought this topic to the agenda, and companies said “eureka” and decided that remote work is actually not as bad as they thought. Naturally, many people experienced working from home or remotely during the stay-at-home process, and it was seen that this would continue in many sectors going forward. We also wanted to list useful, productivity-boosting applications for people working from home or remotely in this article.

Zoom

Apart but together. Even without being in an office environment, teams can come together online. One of the most effective services that can be used for this is Zoom. While Zoom was a teleconference application known in some sectors, it suddenly became a service used by people from every sector. Although it is used for various purposes from remote education to video calls, it can be used as a tool for teams to come together and hold meetings for the remote working method. Especially thanks to the screen sharing feature, work being done can be shared with other team members and discussed. The fact that it will speed up many tasks and that jobs that cannot be explained over the phone can be shown makes Zoom a productivity-boosting service.

Trello

Is the desk covered with note papers and everything everywhere? Can the note taken for a job being blown away by the wind from the window cause great losses? For such negative situations, online services are just right for you. Trello is tailor-made for this job. With this online productivity application, where you can take notes under various headings, assign tasks, give deadlines, add files, and establish a working methodology, you can maintain order in all individual and team work including remote work. You can maintain your working order with Trello, which is offered for free use for teams with a certain number of members.

Google Drive

It is not always possible to access files on the office computer from another location. A PSD file, an image, an Excel table may be needed while working remotely but things will be disrupted if there is no access. Using cloud storage services is a good solution for this. Google Drive, which is accessible to everyone and offers large-scale storage even in its free version, is one of the important tools of remote work. Since the uploaded important files will be saved to the storage space belonging to the email account, access by third parties is also quite difficult. With Google Drive, where you can access office files from home or home files from the office or other workspaces, productivity will increase and job delays due to data deficiency will be prevented.

Slack

Messaging applications cause many problems in remote working for teams or individuals. In some messaging applications, written messages may not be found, while in others they may not even be shown in search results. This causes the task assigned to the person to be lost or forgotten. The Slack application, developed taking this into account, eliminates the problems of messaging while working. With Slack, task headings can be created, discussions can be held under these headings, files can be uploaded, and these files can be accessed at any time. Thus, given tasks can be completed without disruption.

Asana

Whether remote working or not, people who want to bring employees together in an online environment, distribute tasks, and check that tasks are completed must definitely use an online task tracking program. Asana is one of them. Asana, where you can register as a team or individually, create various headings, assign tasks, load different tasks to employees, distribute each sub-heading to different people, write comments on these headings, upload files, and specify deadlines, will distribute the workload, determine people’s tasks, and make work easier to track. Asana is an application that can be used free of charge up to a certain number of users. It is one of the keys to high-efficiency work for people working from home or remotely or managing these people.

Canva

In today’s world where internet and computer technologies have developed, it has become possible to make designs without owning a high-performance computer and to do this with an internet tab or phone application. Canva is a graphic design tool that people working remotely can use. Thanks to Canva, where quick and effective designs can be made in situations where Photoshop and similar applications may not work on every computer or there may be no computer in the environment, graphic work can be done quickly.

Google Calendar

What work to do on which day, who to meet with, who to email, which job to finish on which day, if the answers to all these questions are on note papers, work efficiency will be quite low. Because some planned work can be overlooked due to stacked papers. Google Calendar prevents this. With Google Calendar, where events can be added to days, hours, and future dates, which can be tracked on a single page, and which can be accessed with a Gmail account, it is possible to organize work, set meetings, and receive advance notifications.

Time can be better controlled with this application that eliminates many problems of remote work. While remote work is on the rise today, it will be discussed more in the coming years and different services will be offered for it. But it should not be forgotten that all these services are tools for a person to work more efficiently. Using them and working efficiently is also in the person’s hands. Not losing motivation and concentration is also a situation that ends with the person. We wish high-motivation, high-concentration remote work.

Abdullah Altunbaş

Content Writer

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