More and more companies are adopting remote work, especially in the current situation with increasing restrictions on activity and mobility. But how can remote work be improved?

As several European countries enter their second lockdown, it’s time to prepare again for forced remote work in companies that can implement this method as the best way to prevent infections and maintain operations.

Working remotely has many advantages, but it’s not all smooth sailing, and many professionals may face serious challenges adapting to this situation. Fortunately, we have a good number of useful tools at our disposal to improve remote work and boost productivity.

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How to Improve Remote Work in Your Company

Microsoft 365 is our preferred option, both for its power and for its wide variety of connected tools that make work more fluid and collaborative—almost as if you were in the office surrounded by colleagues.

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Facilitate Remote Work with Better Communication

To maintain smooth contact with the entire team, Microsoft Teams is a powerful choice. Thanks to its stability and speed, you can hold video calls and webinars seamlessly, chat, create workgroups, manage calendars, and work on shared files.

You can also continue working in your usual way with Outlook email (including calendar and contact management), Skype (for phone calls), and Yammer (as a corporate social network).

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Eliminate Storage Problems

With OneDrive, teams can access all files from anywhere. You can save files personally or share them with selected people.

Additionally, Azure is available, a cloud storage system offering services related to cloud computing, databases, virtual networks, content management, and enterprise applications in a secure environment.

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Improve Remote Work with Task Organization

Microsoft Planner is an application that allows project coordination using cards and boards, with the added advantage of being integrated with other platform tools like Teams.

Moreover, the Microsoft Store offers a wide variety of apps that can be integrated into its solutions, allowing you to continue using tools like Trello or Slack within the productivity suite.

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Maximize Efficiency with Office Tools

This is Microsoft 365’s flagship feature, the evolution of Office, usable anytime, anywhere, on any device. It facilitates collaborative creation, storage, and file sharing.

It is the most well-known, widely used, and user-friendly office suite in the world, including Word (word processor), Excel (spreadsheet), PowerPoint (presentation software), SharePoint (document management), and OneNote (note-taking).

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Global Business Management

The entire Microsoft 365 platform integrates seamlessly with Dynamics 365 management tools. This allows companies to manage all processes from a single location, ensuring consistency, alignment across the organization, and a single source of truth for all tasks.

Within Dynamics 365, you can find programs such as Business Central (ERP), Sales (CRM), Retail (commercial operations), Field Service (maintenance), Customer Service (technical support), Project Service Automation (project management), and Finance & Operations (large-scale manufacturing, operations, and finance).

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Leverage the Benefits of eCommerce

Given the current situation, the ability to sell online is a significant opportunity. Sana Commerce is eCommerce software that allows you to manage an online store from Microsoft Dynamics, maintaining the same business logic, data, and system.

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Increase Productivity

People accustomed to working in an office may struggle to focus, work efficiently, and achieve goals from home. Therefore, it’s essential to have tools that boost productivity.

Power Platform is a system to create, enhance, and customize applications to make them more useful. It includes Power BI (self-service business intelligence for better decisions, data analysis, and reporting), PowerApps (for building intuitive apps without coding), and Microsoft Flow (an application to create automated workflows).