Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, not only are our habits and way of socializing changing, but also our way of working. A paradigm shift where teleworking is essential to keep organizations afloat and is already projected to cause a technological leap in companies in the most diverse sectors.
Is work a place to go or something to do? This is one of the biggest paradigm shifts experienced in thousands of offices around the world today.
This is because the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with the recommendations of health organizations to maintain physical social distancing to protect themselves, forced thousands of workers to leave their desks or offices to carry out their work from home through teleworking .
The tools we mention below can be applied at the company level to improve the teleworking capacity of its employees.
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Key: technological tools at the service of home office
One of the main challenges of working from home is the change in habits, basically the transition from a physical office and having a team of people to working from a home office and having to interact with a virtual team. As a result, it is important to use the right tools to successfully deal with this scenario.
At G-Talent we suggest the following tools for efficient teleworking:
Slack :
Messaging tool designed for work teams. It's like WhatsApp but designed especially for work. It allows file sharing and other functionalities.
G-Suite :
It is a Google service that offers a desktop full of features to organize and work on shared documents such as spreadsheets, documents, presentations and calendars.
Monday and Wrike :
These are remote project managers that allow you to organize teamwork, assign tasks, priorities, send messages and work with specific dates on each of your projects.
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Zoom :
It is a video calling platform created with businesses in mind that allows real-time messaging and document sharing.
Box :
It is a cloud-based collaboration, storage and workflow platform.
G-Talent :
Online Corporate Academy, created to help Human Resources departments provide training in soft and hard skills to all their employees.
Whether through your computer, tablet, laptop or smartphone, electronic devices are essential to stay connected at all times and in all places during times of teleworking.
Project, training and task management platforms have also become indispensable, as well as keeping in touch through group video calls or networks such as Slack . Likewise, you can rely on platforms that allow the modification of shared documents online and the storage of files in the cloud.
Today, a large number of companies have realized that by organizing themselves - and above all, making the most of technological tools - effective home office or work from home is feasible. A trend that several companies had begun to put into practice several years ago.
The role of leaders in effective teleworking
In addition to integrating the use of technologies , the role of company leaders - regardless of their size - will be key . They will have to understand that not all workers know these tools and applications, but that everything can be learned.
Support and organization must be established by leaders so that the transition to remote work is effectively accomplished.
Setting clear and measurable objectives is another key factor in the success of the Telework strategy; leaders must set explicit, achievable goals and empower their team to meet them.
Last but not least, leaders must boost their confidence levels that team members are capable of maintaining productivity and goal orientation from home.
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