Top Tips for Home-Working

Home-working an efficient way to get the most from your employees.

Content, relaxed, and hard-working, the typical home-worker will work efficiently and effectively if helped to home-work according to best-practice.

Here are some top home-working tips.

1. Divide and Conqueror

The Ice³ Online Collaboration system provides you with a very simple but effective means to control access. Use it wisely so that your home-workers have access to what they need, and can't access what they don't.

2. Organisation, Organisation, Organisation

Plan how your information is going to be used in the Ice³ Online Collaboration system and communicate this to your employees. Following common practices increases efficiency and that is as true online as it is at a desk.

3. Communicate Progress Regularly

Encourage your home-workers to keep a Diary for each Project in which they are involved. Not only to communicate what they are doing, but also to give a record of what challenges they are facing, what they are learning, and what information they need, and so on.

Managerial oversight need not be a nasty term.

4. Use the Right Tools

Email is not the friend of the home-worker. Important documents lost amidst the spam, no way to control versions, and more, means that email can get in the way of effective home-working.

Encourage your home-workers to use email for what it is, and to exploit the document-sharing and communication facilities of the Ice³ Online Collaboration system.

5. Use All the Tools

Normally, only a small percentage of any software functionality is employed regularly by its users. Somethings are just too obscure to be used, others too complicated. But often shortcuts and easy ways to do things are missed.

With the Ice³ Online Collaboration system there are number of really useful features that make your life easier.

Encourage your home-workers to learn all about the 'Watch This' facility, for example, which watches for changes from others - so you don't have to!

There are other tips that we can suggest, but you've done well to read this far.

Explore further within this website to discover more about the Ice³ Online Collaboration system or contact us to chat how it might be able to help your business exploit the opportunity provided by effective home-working.

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