The beginning of 2020 has ushered in a drastic adoption of remote work.

With this necessary work-life change, many workers are left in the lurch, grateful for remote work capabilities but unsure of how to approach this new normal. When working in an office, getting the answers, resources, and information you need is fairly straightforward. When suddenly faced with a home office of one, maintaining successful communication and collaboration can be difficult and daunting. 

Our suggestion? Other than investing in reliable internet, a comfy chair, and a top-notch coffee maker, we’ve compiled a few of our favorite digital tools for working from home: 

Virtual meeting tools
Make meetings a little less painful with easy to use virtual meeting tools. Platforms like Skype, Zoom, and Google Hangouts provide users with a seamless means of communication, making it easy to replace in-person meetings – no matter your location. 

Task organization & project management tools
Managing collaborative projects and daily tasks can feel complicated with a scattered team. Fortunately, project management platforms like Trello and Basecamp make it easy for remote team members to add and manage tasks and resources. Task organization and project management tools not only allow individual team members to track their own work, but also grants further visibility into team projects, workloads, and productivity.

Collaboration-friendly docs & spreadsheets
Teamwork makes the dreamwork. Easily collaborate with team members within the same document, spreadsheet, or presentation, using platforms like Google Drive. With Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, users work within the same file, without fear of overwrites.

Real-time communication tools
Communicating while working from home has never been easier. Using tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, colleagues and teams can chat and exchange resources (and great GIFs) in real-time. 

Shareable, digital forms & docs
Working from home doesn’t mean you need to disrupt your business. When away from the office, it can be difficult to find the documents you need to close business, complete billing processes, provide students with assignments, and more. Using a mobile forms platform, like GoFormz, teams can instantly generate and share digital forms with colleagues, customers, and students – no matter their location. 

Your mobile forms can look exactly like your existing paper forms, simplifying user adoption. Your digitized forms can be easily equipped with image, sketch, GPS, and drop-down fields, simplifying data input. Fields can even be auto-populated with user or client information, accelerating form completion and improving data quality. 

With GoFormz, links to your digital forms can be shared with and completed by users outside of your account, allowing users to access submitted forms and data in real-time, even from their home office. For more information on remote work and elevated collaboration, check out this blog post.