Due to recent concerns about the evolving COVID-19 outbreak, prolonged remote work is one approach that companies are looking at to keep their staff healthy. Although many companies have existing work-from-home policies, extended remote work for an entire organization will put teams to the test in working together while not together.
From global companies to startups, these CTA members offer top tech tools and services that can help employees stay connected and productive even from afar.
BlackBerry offerings for desktop can turn any home laptop into a remote work laptop, with traffic securely routed and data encrypted. Home workers get a suite of apps, and users only need a link and activation code to start remote work. Their free trial is offered for 60 days.
The company’s digital workspace services allow employees to securely collaborate on documents even when offline. BlackBerry’s communication services, which can also integrate into custom apps and smart devices, allow employees to get work done through real-time chat, voice and video conferencing as well.
Cisco is offering the free version of its Webex service as a proactive and supportive plan to enable people to work from anywhere. It is also allowing up to 100 meeting participants and has added toll-free dial-in features, helping teams meet with each other and collaborate effectively to continue normal business operations.
Cisco has expanded its worldwide meeting capacity and is working with non-governmental organizations to enable school use as well.
With Dropbox Business, team members can easily sync, share and collaborate on documents. The cloud-sharing platform allows users to create, store and share documents from Google Docs and Dropbox Paper to traditional files.
Integrated with other collaboration tools that can further aid productivity in work-from-home situations, Dropbox helps keep conversations and files in one place, even across platforms.
Four-time CES Innovation Award winner Klaxoon is a digital platform that transforms traditional information-sharing meetings into interactive sessions that include surveys, brainstorming and live messaging.
With Klaxoon, team members from anywhere can join a meeting and share opinions through collaborative features on the platform. Klaxoon recently launched Template, which offers ready-to-use brainstorming templates that guide and encourage teams to organize and visualize ideas together.
As its own teams join the ranks of remote workers, Microsoft has started offering a free trial of the premium plan for its Office 365 E1, which allows users to record meetings and take advantage of 1 terabyte of storage space.
With the platform, users can build automated workflows between apps to get notifications, connect through Microsoft Teams to plan schedules, assign tasks and more, as well as host online meetings that can be broadcast to up to 10,000 people.
As companies and employees advance and test out their remote work technology infrastructures, smaller, daily lifestyle products like CTA Startup Member Sum's wireless chargers are also playing their role in keeping teams reachable and communicating despite distance.
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