Here’s a quick summary of the tools we’ll be looking at in more detail: There are tools you can use to improve your own workflow, impress your bosses and turn remote working into a truly life-changing move. I’m not here to recommend expensive business-grade tools that your company should be paying. Therefore, many of the tools I’m recommending here are free and the paid ones all come with a free version or offer reasonably-priced options. You work from home (or you want to work from home) and you need to maximise productivity so you can achieve that work-life balance everyone keeps telling you about. However, the focus of this article is the individual remote worker who calls their home their office. We’ve previously looked at the best productivity tools for teams, apps for distributed teams around the world and automation tools for small businesses. These are challenges we’re addressing in this article and all of the apps we’re looking at today will help you overcome these. I can also understand motivation being a problem when you remove all the gentle nudges of having superiors, teammates and that sense of being at work. More challenging is the issue of distractions at home and this is something else I have to be really disciplined with. However, I can also say this is directly linked to productivity when tasks take longer and then start eating into my personal time.Ĭommunication and collaboration is an obvious barrier when you’re working in a different location to your teammates, but this is one area where we have an abundance of apps at our disposal. It’s telling that the most common problem cited is struggling to unplug after work and I can say this is something I definitely have problems with.
The same report from Buffer also lists the most common struggles remote workers say they encounter. This is all great, in theory, but reality shows us that achieving these benefits doesn’t come automatically. One of the key supposed benefits of remote working is achieving a better work-life balance and another one is that it boosts productivity. With this in mind, it’s important to consider the challenges of getting tasks done from the comfort of your own home – as well as any implications this might have on the rest of your home life. According to Buffer’s 2019 State of Remote Report, despite having the freedom to work from anywhere, the vast majority of remote workers (84%) still prefer to get things done from home. With remote working sharply on the rise ( 50% of the entire UK workforce is expected to work remotely at some capacity by 2020), more people are getting the day’s tasks done at home.
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