Work from home?

Work from home?

Although the Coronavirus (Covid-19) started in China, it has affected more than 100 countries around the world in the last month. The world-famous company Google has instructed its office employees in South American countries to work from home. Citizens of many countries, including Italy, have started living in isolation at home due to the effects of Corona.

This process of not going to the office, not going to crowded places and staying at home has started going on in many countries. With the outbreak of Corona, many citizens have stopped leaving their homes for work other than what they have to do.

Even though there is no corona infection in Nepal, the fear of it is increasing. Going to the office is crowded and if one person has an infection, there is a higher chance of transferring it to another. For that, the practice of working from home can also be started in Nepal. But how to do the work from home? Such applications are discussed here, which are more popular for office purposes and if an office encourages its employees to work from home, the use of such applications will help them in their work. These applications help for virtual communication between more than one person. These tools help to do office work at home, not only when the corona virus is discussed, but also at other times. Some tools are more useful for office management and some for employees.

Slack

Slack is a tool used for office purposes. Its specialty is that it gives an opportunity to communicate on various topics among the people in the office. Another feature of Slack is that it can be used in both paid and free forms. Any organization with many employees can use it. One of the biggest features that makes Slack popular in offices is not just chatting, but the ability to chat by topic. It can also be integrated with other social networks and tools that work with document share, edit. It can be used in both app and web versions.

Flock

It is also a business messaging platform like Slack. It allows the user to chat, provide instant progress of ongoing work. It allows you to chat with more than one person collectively or separately according to the topic. In addition, it also has the provision of video chat. It has the facility to send messages to separate departments of the office, groups engaged in separate work according to their work. Flock can be used for free or for a fee. You have to pay a fee to use its full features.

Microsoft Team

Microsoft Teams is a competing tool to Slack. Its purpose is to monitor the office staff and their work. Although Microsoft launched it four years ago, two years ago it was made available in a free version. You can add your employees to it, file sharing with video, audio calls, chat and distribute responsibilities according to the project, and it can also be monitored easily. Also, it is easy to know which employee's shift and how long they have worked.

Team viewer

This is a very useful tool for people who work both at home and in the office. It allows access from one device to another, which is very useful for file sharing. It can give you the facility to work on your office computer even while sitting at home. It can be used for free.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a useful tool for working people. If you keep the files and documents on your office computer in Dropbox, you can work comfortably wherever you are, due to which there is no hassle to do office work while staying at home. Because files in Dropbox can be shared with others, emailed, edited, copied, it brings a lot of ease in work. It can be used for free.