Cloudless Collaboration in Times of Social Distancing
The pandemic has turned everything upside down for businesses around the world and hopefully it will soon get back to normal. People have already started visiting offices, meeting each other personally, even business travelling is taking off after a long lull.
However, we are still recommended to social distance! We should keep in mind those 2 meters (=6 feet) of safety zone and follow preventative measures to keep the pandemic from spreading.
Let’s Recall These Safety Measures
Online meetings and teamwork. Sure, nothing is a better barrier for the virus than being completely isolated from all your colleagues.
- Postpone unessential business trips.
- Hold regular meetings with your team and business partners through special conferencing software.
- Move training sessions and workshops to online versions.
Offline meetings sometimes can’t be replaced with negotiations through the Internet, especially if you need to discuss commercial secrets or make fundamental decisions for your business. Hold them in compliance with crucial measures:
- Avoid shaking hands and close contacts with colleagues.
- Keep a 2-meter distance during communication.
- Book large meeting rooms even when you need to talk to a few people. Don’t meet in small rooms or crowded restaurants.
- Check the functionality of the ventilation or open windows.
- Keep your hands clean and have a sanitiser nearby.
- Use only your own personal gadgets, avoid sharing them and keep them clean as well.
It’s obvious that holding online events is convenient and safe, but there are cases when you can’t fully rely on technology. When it comes to negotiating about finance or dealing with sensitive information that must not become public, one just can’t avoid personal meetings.
Collabio is here to help make your personal business gatherings as safe as possible without privacy risks.
Collaborate Safely with Collabio
With our last release, we have introduced the P2P local collaboration feature that helps to significantly reduce the likelihood of spreading COVID even when you have to work within the same office.
This unique feature empowers users to locally share and simultaneously edit files of different sizes with their team, no matter how many teammates there are.
Should you want to discover more details about this technology, check out this article. It explains the principle of its functionality and describes the best use cases.
What Are the Benefits of Such P2P Collaboration?
- Safe distance. Social distancing can be followed even when you’re cooperating with colleagues in one meeting room or from neighbouring office rooms. Keep a healthy distance that is limited only by your Wi-Fi hotspot power!
- Live cooperation. It’s a fact that offline collaboration is more productive. When you are sitting next to your colleague, you can speak to them and hit the common ground faster compared to online work. P2P collaboration brings you much closer to face-to-face communication without compromising social distancing.
- Full control. You are sharing access to the editing session, not the document itself. You can see the changes made by colleagues in real time, but once you close the document or end the session, no one will be able to make further edits.
- Privacy. Your document is edited locally, instead of being saved somewhere on the web. Once the session is over, the document will be safely saved only to your device. Even professional hackers won’t be able to steal your secret information without physical access to your phone.
As you can see, Collabio opens new horizons for teamwork — your phone alone will be enough to provide a similar experience as huge cloud servers do.
Who Can Benefit from P2P Collaboration?
We’ve talked much about using peer-to-peer collaboration at the office. Collabio helps with getting things done during personal meetings with colleagues, but the app use is not limited to office work.
For example, students start visiting schools, colleges and universities. There’s a lot of group work inside any classroom. If previously students gathered into small teams to perform common tasks, nowadays it is not safe, so P2P collaboration serve as an ideal solution.
The same goes for meetings with friends. Sometimes you need to plan some common activities, create shopping lists, or collaborate on any other document, here Collabio can be helpful too.
So, the ongoing pandemic is not a reason to completely isolate ourselves from society. Moreover, the world is being revived and all the processes are returning to their usual course.
How to Use Collabio’s Local Collaboration Feature?
Are you ready to experience the convenience and power of next-generation cloudless collaboration? Get Collabio from the App Store and try it yourself. There’s a free trial so have a good test drive before subscribing!
We have explained how this feature works in our Collabio Spaces for iOS app. What’s more, the macOS version of Collabio is coming soon. It means that you’ll be able to cooperate with colleagues safely using your iPhone, iPad and a MacBook — all on one subscription.
