Working Remotely

Tips and best practices for virtual collaboration, working remotely, and more.

Working Remotely

Virtual workspace to work digitally with your team

With many regions under strict lockdown and quarantine restrictions, the pandemic changed how the corporate industry functioned and paved the way for different ways of working. The most widely adopted work model was remote work, which led to virtual workspaces. In this blog, we’ll understand what a virtual workspace

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How to lead remote work teams?

Whether you’ve always worked in a traditional workforce or have been asked to lead a brand new distributed team, leading remote work teams can be quite challenging. Employees and businesses alike have realized the benefits associated with remote work. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the popularity of working

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How to encourage creative thinking in remote teams

It’s not uncommon to find remote workforce critics claiming that innovation and creativity are only effective in a traditional office setting. They think innovation and creativity take a backseat with remote teams. With businesses all over the world working with a global workforce for nearly two years, it’s

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What are virtual team-building experiences?

Virtual teams don’t find a lot of opportunities to socialize, which can make things challenging for remote workers to get to know each other and build a relationship with new members. In this blog, we’ll talk about virtual team-building experiences and how they can help a remote workforce

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Tips for running a successful online Brainstorming session

Brainstorming sessions are an excellent way for teams to generate out-of-the-box ideas and explore different opportunities. Generating creative ideas is a challenging task for teams even when they are together in the same room. With companies going remote, it has simply added to this challenge. This can lead to a

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How to overcome remote work challenges

Fifteen months ago, the pandemic had all but pushed the entire corporate industry into adopting the remote work model. While not many businesses were happy with the scenario, the benefits of working remotely soon became evident. Since then, several studies have proven that remote teams are healthier, more productive, and

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How to plan more effective and productive weekly meetings

Businesses all over the world have shifted to remote work in the face of the COVID19 pandemic. However, hosting meetings virtually comes with its own set of challenges. While we would love to believe that all our online meetings are 100% productive, we all know that isn’t true. Quite

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Different models of remote work post-pandemic

The pandemic pushed the entire corporate world to forcefully accept remote work. Fast forward fifteen months later, companies have embraced the remote work lifestyle and understood how beneficial it could be to the success of their business. With the world gradually opening up, companies have started calling their employees back

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How remote work fosters personal and professional growth

With tech giants like Facebook and Twitter leading the remote work revolution, the world is gradually adopting an entirely remote or a hybrid work model for their future. The primary reason is that businesses have experienced first-hand how beneficial a remote workforce is for their success. This stance on remote

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Benefits of a remote working lifestyle

The pandemic has brought about some much-needed changes to the corporate world. Though the concept of a remote working lifestyle isn’t new, it was primarily enterprises in Silicon Valley that hired remote employees. However, now that people all over the world have gotten a taste of what remote work

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How to manage your remote workers and perform tasks quickly when working remotely

The pandemic has introduced monumental changes to our life, both personal and professional. While the impact has mostly been negative, it pushed us to adopt a global remote work model, which may otherwise never have happened. Now, companies all over the world have realized the benefits of remote work and

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Maintaining a remote work culture

Made in collaboration with: Luke Poulson With the recent boom in the world of remote, we have seen many businesses pivot dramatically towards adopting remote lifestyles, altering the way they communicate and changing the overall culture of their workspace. Along with that, we can see exponential growth in remote start-ups

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Allo: the easiest way to connect professionals

“I’ve never seen any tool that’s like Allo. It supports project management, visual collaboration, and video chat all in one place.” - Anushri Desai, co-founder and COO at NovaHub NovaHub, co-founded by Sarvottam Kulkarni and Anushri Desai, is an India-based remote-first design and innovation lab that helps clients

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Introducing weekly team meetings

Hiring the right people is only one way to build a strong team that efficiently succeeds. Other important factors for building a successful team include setting team visions and goals, establishing clear roles and responsibilities, celebrating successes and failures, and team bonding. Periodically checking in with your team is important

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Allo as an onboarding tool

Before a new team member joins their first meeting, they typically must sign various documents such as their contract and any non-disclosure agreements. Once they’ve completed the necessary paperwork, they’ll need time to adapt and assimilate into the company’s culture while learning about their responsibilities and catching

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Top five tips to make meetings productive

Research has documented how unproductive we are at work as we balance our To-Do List with excessive emails, pointless meetings, and constant interruptions. Excessive Zoom meetings can lead to Zoom Fatigue - a new concept describing the tiredness, worry, or burnout occurring from overutilizing virtual conferencing platforms, such as Zoom,

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Allo can be the only tool you need

“Allo brings many of our tools together. It combines the advantages of Trello, Miro, and PowerPoint. It really improves our workflow and makes our lives less complicated." - Sven Retoré Sven is one of the partners and facilitators of Visuality, a company that makes complex concepts into easily understandable

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Allo: your team’s common ground

Allo allows my team to express themselves visually whilst being remote. It allows us to connect and collaborate as if we are in the same room, with expressive tools that help us communicate on an interactive level. Being able to put our thoughts on Allo helps us innovate and stay

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How ALLO saves time and reduces complexity for course creators and instructors: a long-lived learning experience for students

"ALLO is not just an online whiteboard. The other tools I tried simply duplicated a physical whiteboard experience, which, while useful, is not very innovative." Larry Cooper, CSO at The Hive Professional Network ALLO is not just an online whiteboard. The other tools I tried simply duplicated a

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Allo: the asynchronous collaboration tool you didn’t know your company needed until now

While remote teams existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic, they became more popular during the pandemic. Those accustomed to the office suddenly shifted to remote work and struggled to transition from synchronous to asynchronous communication and collaboration. Mastering asynchronous collaboration is essential for remote teams, especially when team members work

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3 keys to align your remote working team and keep them engaging

Many companies were unprepared for this shift and found themselves struggling to maintain a collaborative, productive work environment and to communicate effectively with their teams. Here are 3 tips on how to keep your remote team working, productive, and engaged.

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Allo: not just another collaboration tool

We didn't want Allo to be just another collaboration tool. Instead, we envisioned Allo to be this one solution that can support our team and our workflow from the beginning to the end. See why Allo is not just a collaboration tool.

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Allo's remote working culture

Allo has a strong remote working culture even before COVID-19. See how we stay connected and efficient even when we are not working physically together.

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How Allo runs daily stand-up meetings remotely

Our team at Allo runs stand-ups online every day, with many employees being 16 hours apart. Take a sneak peek into one of the meetings and see how we do it!

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How to collaborate across time zones

It could be challenging trying to work with teammates from different time zones. Let's take a look at some tips to help with this!