ISOLATED YET CONNECTED — Be productive while you work from home with ProjectBoard

Suresh Karpatiya
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3 min readApr 1, 2020

During this ghastly outbreak of COVID19 pandemic, all the nations are fighting together to protect the world and its citizens. We are all in a state of lockdown and probably this will continue to remain until the threat is diminished. Considering the business and workplaces shut, it is all the more difficult to think about financial state, income, economy and more. But the very important point of advancing technologies are they evolve according to the needs of people and hence, this situation needs every one of us to stay home and work.

Be productive while you work from home with ProjectBoard
Be productive while you work from home with ProjectBoard

With this rising need of managing your work from home, there are emerging tools that could help you manage your work from home easily like ProjectBoard. We must seize this opportunity where one can spend time with family, with oneself while balancing the work. Let’s find out, how we can make the best out of these lockdown period while staying safe at home.

Stick to daily goals and not work hours

If you are carrying work at home, instead of sticking to your laptop for only during office hours then you might feel tired and won’t be able to achieve your daily work goal. So commit yourself to finishing your daily goal or tasks at your most productive hours. This will definitely create a sense of achievement without getting stress.

Make meetings and collaborations fun

Don’t opt emails and calls for collaborating. They are extremely tedious, time taking, unreliable and obviously distracting. It is not practical to shoot emails for every little conversation with your teammate and if you prefer calls, you will be stuck handling calls without completing the actual task. Therefore, opt for tools that support instant communication or chat with team group as well as team mates, where you can use little room for fun conversations too.

Collaborations tools that support instant communication
Collaborations tools that support instant communication

Dedicated working space

Human brain always adapts itself to a repeated process over time. Therefore, try to have a fix place at your home where you can work every day. Dedicated a particular place not only helps you focus but also avoids any distractions that are bound to happen when you are at home.

Keep you activities and hours flexible

Here is the great opportunity to balance your work hours with certain opportunities that can help you grow your intellect, skills and more. Therefore, ensure utilizing this time to learn something, formulate a business strategy possibly or even serve community.

Use the appropriate tool that can help you manage all your work

Working remotely is a combination of lot of things, besides organizing your task, there is an utter need to collaborate with team, communicate with clients, manage change, costs, and assign task, track deadlines and more. Therefore, it is best to use one such tool like ProjectBoard that can manage all your tasks, work and collaborations from one place.

Work tools with file sharing features
Work tools with file sharing features

Keep everything digital, make file sharing easy

For those who have been working in traditional manual ways, times like lockdown remind us the importance of technology and digital era. Try to manage all your work digitally, keep your work handy which allows you to share certain files with the necessary person involved. Use easy work tools with file sharing features.

Also now that it is a digital era, utilize these days to get your business’ online presence. Leverage digital channels to market it to people, outrank your competition and get people to know your services and products. In the times like these people are spending most of their times online and the business having digital presence are taking complete advantage.

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