National Work From Home Day: 15 Helpful Services For Remote Working

On May 17 in the USA celebrates the holiday of all freelancers — National Work From Home Day! Many employees enjoy the benefits that come with working from home. Some people feel lucky to spend more time with their family or avoid a commute. Other people like the flexibility to set their own hours and work around schedules for school or daycare

In recent years, more and more people are moving to remote work, and developers are releasing more and more new services and applications that help make remote work even more comfortable. I have prepared for you a list of new, different, and useful services for remote work, which will further simplify teamwork and increase your personal efficiency!

Teamwork — some people perceive remote work as a paid vacation, which leads to a decrease in efficiency and performance. If you have such employees in your team, install Teamwork service for everyone, with its help you can track every hour to increase the productivity of your team. The tool allows you to bill for all tracked time and expenses. You can create custom reports on time spent on a project. Export reports and time log records in Excel, CSV or PDF format.

Getscreen.me — a cloud service for remote access via a browser. An indispensable tool for hybrid work — you can connect from home to your office computer at any time. Also a must-have software for technical support staff and system administrators. Connection is by link, there is Quick Support and Permanent Access.

Email Analytics— a tool that allows you to increase productivity and activity within your team by using email. Users can see the average response time to emails, as well as the number of emails each team member receives and sends daily. This tool will be especially useful for remote salespeople and marketers.

Troop Messenger — a worthy alternative to the popular Slack, suitable for working in small teams. Allows administrators to add employees and regulate access to the workspace. The service can be integrated with important applications such as Dropbox and Google Drive. The messenger can be used not only to correspond but also to exchange files, audio and video calls.

Kudos— is an employee recognition program that facilitates peer-to-peer shoutouts between remote colleagues. Teammates can send each other certificates, badges, awards, and videos accompanied by thanks and kind messages. Employees can also choose to send presents from gift cards, swag, or custom rewards. The program operates like a social feed, keeping distant colleagues connected and engaged.

Krisp — is a noise-canceling application that helps remote workers and teams work more productively. It eliminates background noise from both sides of the call, so you and your callers can take important calls from anywhere. You can use it with any communication app (Zoom, Skype, Slack and many others) and enjoy more productive remote meetings.

Feedly — smart newsfeed. A handy tool for keeping track of the latest news and publications on your topic. Instead of being torn between dozens of bookmarks, subscriptions and social media channels, you can gather them all in one place and read them as a single feed. It will be especially useful for content managers, journalists and SMM managers.

BuzzSumo — content analytics service, allows you to identify trends, current topics and viral content, as well as determine opinion leaders in different topics. In the search box, you can enter both the topic of interest and the name of a competitor or URL of a specific resource to get a detailed overview of related publications and their effectiveness/virality. Search results can be filtered by several parameters to leave only the information you want.

CoSchedule — A free tool for organizing marketing activities. It allows you to create projects, tasks, events, post and message templates, as well as plan publications, advertising and media campaigns. Detailed analytics on your marketing activities are also available in the service.

Bitable — service for creating branded videos. Intuitive online video editor with a large library of clips and infographics. It’s easy to put together a small promotional video. However, in the free version, you will have to put up with a watermark.

ActiveTrac— is remote workforce management software that tracks the performance of remote teams. The software reports on the use of other remote work applications and tracks interactions between team members so that managers can better understand how employees are spending their work time online.

Bloomfire — is a collaborative knowledge management platform. The program collects information in one central repository that remote team members can quickly access and search to find what they need. The platform is a great self-service tool for employees working independently at home. Employees can easily find answers to questions without having to text colleagues and wait for a response, and maintain a sense of community as they work.

Front — is a customer communication tool that integrates all forms of messaging into a single platform. The program creates a universal mailbox so that employees can direct customer questions and requests to one central hub. Remote teams can better manage workflows and approve or assign tasks without worrying that another team member is already working on the issue.

Justworks — is a professional employer organization, or PEO, a human resources service provider serving small and medium-sized businesses. The online platform integrates payroll, benefits, employee information and compliance tools. Justworks offers a centralized online portal to which remote workers can apply for time off, enroll in benefits plans or obtain company documents such as handbooks or organizational charts. At the same time, Justworks simplifies payroll, health care enrollment, and record-keeping for employers.

Pixlr— advanced online photo processing tool. It supports many formats, including PSD, PXD, JPEG, PNG. There is a very useful function to remove backgrounds from photos, as well as a large selection of filters, design templates and animations.