5 Essential Remote Working Solutions

With countries across the world declaring a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, companies are enabling work-from-home structures to keep their business running and employees safe; however, to be successful working remotely, you have to be well adapted to this type of working. Here are five remote working solutions that can help you be an effective remote worker.

What are the essential tools for remote workers to connect and collaborate?

1. Workfrom home laptop or desktop

Remote workers should prioritize clear communication when emailing and messaging coworkers. Stay productive and work seamlessly with a good, powerful yet sleek laptop like MSI Content Creation Laptops and stay connected with emails, virtual meetings, instant messaging and remote access under the protection of your own roof.

Alternately, you can also explore MSI desktops for remoteworking solutions.

2. VPN (VirtualPrivate Network)

A VPN provides employees remote access to the company's network, so you can access printers, connect to IT resources, transfer data and more. A VPN also increases security and can block access to certain dangerous websites.

3. Virtual meeting applications

If you have virtual meetings and conferences that include lots of remoteworkers, Zoom is a video chat application that supports large meetings with upto 3000 participants! In other words, you can even move your offline conventionto an online virtual event via a meeting platform like Zoom. Another goodchoice would be Microsoft Teams, which combines instant messaging,videoconferencing, calling and document collaboration into a single, integratedapp and enables exciting new ways of working.

4. Stayorganized with a calendar tool

One of the most important remote working solutions is virtualorganization. With the increased flexibility and decreased structure, it isincredibly important to keep yourself organized. Plan your daily routine with acalendar tool like Toggl Plan or Team Up. Use Gantt charts for easy navigationof ongoing projects to understand the current workflow, so your remote team canorganize their time accordingly.

5. Minimizedistractions

Distractions are a major pitfall for remote work! To help keep yourself away from distractions, turn your phone to silent mode, log out of your social media and create a private workspace in your home so you don't have people around you while you are working.

Stayingsafe at home a message from MSI

MSI wants to reassure you that your health, safety and peace of mind areof the utmost importance. MSI is following this situation very closely andworking hard to provide services and support to the products you use so thatyou can rest at ease. At this time, our hearts go out to each and every one ofthose who are being affected by this situation.

Please stay safe and healthy.

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