Ease anxiety from office absence
Stay connected with tech tools
Syed Gilani
Ease anxiety from office absence.
Tough economic times are threatening millions of jobs across the world and pushing us to work harder and longer as we live through challenges. Another challenge is managing the delicate balance between work and family, especially when holidays and vacations require spending quality time together.
Don’t worry. There are ways you can keep in touch with your office, while visiting with family and friends.
Document Sharing Tools
You don’t have to be in your office to manage your workspace. Document sharing tools like Google Docs allow you to manage your documents, presentations, spreadsheets and forms from the convenience of your own computer. You can upload, access and share your office work with your colleagues and hierarchy without paying a dime! The powerful publishing and saving tools allow you to easily manage your workload.
Remote Desktop Access
You might have big family plans and want to work from home or vacation destination. But you are afraid too much information on you computer won’t allow you that flexibility. Technology again comes to your rescue by allowing you to access your office laptop remotely with the help of low cost desktop remote access software.
Online Faxing
If you don’t have access to a fax outside your office, you can sign up for low cost online faxing services, which allows you to send and receive faxes from anywhere in the world.
Remote Meeting
Your boss really wants you to be in a very important meeting which happens to fall right in the middle of your family plans. Worry not! An online meeting service allows you to be in any meeting from any remote location. Even a regular messenger services like Google Talk or MSN Messenger can help you conduct a video or voice chat with your boss or colleagues.
Personal Data Assistants
These days all cell phone providers are offering multi featured personal data assistants PDA’s) to help you manage your business with greater flexibility. Packed with powerful communications and office management tools, they allow you to access your emails and manage your documents.
The synchronization of global communication networks makes it much easier to stay in touch with than ever before. Holidays are meant to for you and for your family and friends. Being able to stay connected to what is going on with your business, while you can’t be physically present can ease anxiety.
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Syed Giiani is president of BIZ VI a Virgin Islands marketing, technology, training and research company.
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