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10 Apps To Maintain Communications While Working From Home During Lockdown

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The nationwide lockdown has pushed everyone to try working from home. However, remote work is not always easy. Read more to find 10 Apps To Maintain Communications While Working From Home During Lockdown

Maintaining communication between team members and their clients is the key to maintaining productivity. Remote work can add additional problems.

Many people have difficulties with communication. Not being in the same office as your team members or clients can be an issue for exchanging effective feedback.

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Fortunately, there are many remote work apps that can help you to keep track of your tasks.

Let us help you find some tools that can improve your communications while working from home. Here’s a list of 10 Apps To Maintain Communications During Lockdown:

Skype

  • Up to 10 people on video calls
  • HD video calling
  • Screen sharing
  • Video call recording
  • Interactive video chats
  • Location sharing

This is a good tool to video chat from your computer/ phone/ tablet with a small group or a 1-1 conversation.

The free version of Skype works for small teams with less than 10 members. There is also a special tool called Skype in the Classroom for online education.

Google Hangouts

  • Up to 25 video participants
  • Video, audio, and messenger conversations
  • Video meeting recordings
  • Screen sharing
  • Join calls using Google Calendar

Apart from Skype, Google Hangouts is a great option for audio and video meetings. It can also be integrated with apps like Slack.

This tool is ideal for individual conversations, team meetings, recorded demos, etc. It can be used for personal or business reasons.

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Zoom

  • Unlimited meetings
  • 1-1 and group meetings
  • Host up to 100 participants
  • HD video and audio
  • Screen sharing
  • Private and group chat
  • Scheduled meetings
  • Host controls

Zoom allows for simple, easy setup meetings or regular meetings in your personal meeting room. It is ideal for anyone who works remotely or has remote team members.

Zoom is also a great option for working in very large teams. You can also record and broadcast your meetings for future reference.

Quickly create and share a private meeting link with an individual or team and connect remote team members through video.

Slack

  • Group calls of up to 15 people
  • Individual calls
  • Messenger

Slack is one of the most popular remote work apps out there. A real-time chat allows you to stay in touch with your team members.

This is a great way to ask a teammate a quick question. You can simply use the command/ call or clicking the phone icon at the top of the conversation with another Slack user.

Users can also Slack with up to 15 people if you start a call from a channel, enabling the rest of the channel’s members to join.

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OfficeVibe

  • Maintain team morale
  • Anonymous

OfficeVibe is a great way to monitor your team members and their moral.

The team members get regular direct messages with questions to answer about their overall mood. The answers are then sent anonymously to the team leader.

HipChat

  • One-on-one chat
  • Group/topic chat
  • Cloud-based file storage
  • Video calling
  • Searchable message-history
  • Inline-image viewing
  • Works with Jira/ Atlassian products

The popular chatting tool is especially handy when you used it with Jira or any other Atlassian products.

Alongside one-on-one and group/topic chat, the HipChat also featured cloud-based file storage, video calling, searchable message-history, and inline-image viewing

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Jing

  • Lightweight
  • Screencasts up to 5 min
  • Easy upload

The lightweight solution allows you to easily explain a task to a coworker who is not right next to you.

You can easily create screencasts of up to five minutes. These can be then uploaded and you get a shareable link.

Overall, Jing is less time consuming and confusing than emails or screenshots.

Join.me

  • Audio calls
  • Video calls
  • Screen share

Join.me allows you to easily make audio and video calls with your team. Additionally, it also lets you share your screen with others.

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Chimp or Champ

  • Weekly happiness meter
  • Maintain morale
  • Anonymous suggestions

The weekly anonymous employee happiness meter allows you to check your team pulse and improve employee well-being.

Chimp or Champ is essentially an online suggestion box. It allows your team to provide helpful feedback.

Doodle

  • Planning
  • Polls

Doodle is a perfect tool to send out short polls of any kind and get a quick response. It is very useful for planning the time for the next team meeting or make a new decision.

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