Right now, more people than ever before are working from home. This means, a huge number of employees have made the switch from a desk to a couch, or from a work desktop to a personal laptop. This switch has killed a lot of people’s productivity – because home doesn’t feel like work. For most, the two are incongruous.

There are methods to remedy this feeling, though. Working from your living room will never feel quite the same as a corner office, but with these great remote working tools, productivity might come a bit easier.

Instagantt – Project Management

Instagantt is hugely important for organizers. While working from home, it’s easy for thoughts to become muddled. But that is much less likely to happen while using an interface like Instagantt.

With Instagantt, you can streamline workflow not only to keep yourself on the right track, but to share it with your coworkers and employees. Since you’re not in the same office as everyone else, working from home can make it hard for peers to know where your work stands. Instagantt’s goal is to change that.

This remote working tool also has the ability to create tasks and subtasks, templates for varying projects, and guidelines, while sending notifications to keep you on track.

Microsoft Teams – Collaboration

As previously stated, communication is key when working from home. Microsoft Teams makes it easy to talk to your coworkers in an environment that isn’t stressful or confusing. With Teams, you have the ability to create a number of different channels – group chats for different teams, or individual chat windows for one-on-one communication. To keep the work flowing, there’s also a mobile version of Teams available for both Android and iOS. 

One Drive – Cloud Storage

There’s nothing more irritating than a file too big to send over email. Instead of stressing about how in the world you’ll get that file out into the world, download One Drive and share it that way, instead. 

One Drive is a Cloud storage program that makes it easy to keep your files in one place, and also shareable between others with Drive. 

Another added benefit is the fact that it can be synced across all devices – you’ll never go searching madly for a specific file again. 

Krisp – Productivity

Taking calls from home can be challenging, especially if you live with pets and/or small children. But with Krisp, life is a bit easier. Krisp is a noise-canceling app that removes background sound from both ends of a call. There won’t be any more straining to hear what your client says, or turning a conference call into a guessing game. 

It’s usable with any communication app (Skype, Zoom, Slack, etc.) and will most definitely improve the quality of your at-home meetings. 

Chimp or Champ – Feedback

Keeping up employee morale is not only more important now, it’s also more difficult. Chimp or Champ allows you to track your employees’ level of happiness with an anonymous feedback tool that’s used weekly. This allows employees to offer up suggestions and pain points without worrying about repercussions, and will make for an all-around more positive work-from-home environment. 

Time Doctor – Time Management

Time Doctor comes in the form of desktop software, Chrome extension, or mobile app. It keeps track of how your employees are keeping track of their time, meaning that their time sheets will be as accurate as possible. 

By using the alerting features to avoid distraction, Time Doctor also helps your employees be as productive as they would be while in the office. 

Zoom – Video Calling

At this point, you’ve probably heard of Zoom. It seems like everyone and their mother is using it – but why? Well, for one, it has excellent video quality with no-hassle download. The first forty minutes are free, and you can record any call to use in the future. It also has a screen-sharing ability, which works wonders for presentations. Right now, it’s one of the best in the game.

Microsoft OneNote – Note Taking

For teammates working remotely, Evernote works wonders. It’s a note-taking, organizing, planning app that syncs information across any and all connected devices. This means easier sharing, and a small likelihood of falling behind with coworkers. 

We’ve all had to quickly get used to the notion of working from home. It has upset many of our routines, and turned some of our jobs on their heads. But by using these remote working tools, your work, focus, and overall morale is sure to improve.



These tools may seem like small, simple steps. And, in reality, they are. But when all combined, they create something that will ease you into the life of working from home and make your days go more smoothly. After utilizing some (or all!) of these services, the work you do from your couch might be better than what you did in the office.