{"id":80524,"date":"2020-12-07T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/?p=80524"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:53:50","slug":"ces-jeunes-pousses-qui-proposent-de-faciliter-le-travail-a-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/ces-jeunes-pousses-qui-proposent-de-faciliter-le-travail-a-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"These startups help you work efficiently from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Some companies will continue to offer remote work to their employees. Several startups are here to help them be the most efficient, even remotely.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We already know it, working from home brings a lot of challenges : inadequate office equipment, isolation, loss of sense of being part of a work team, decentralized information, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies that want to offer long term telework will have to deal with these issues, sooner than later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that regard, several startups have created services and products to facilitate the life of companies willing to decentralize their operations, as well as companies willing to offer remote work to a part or all of their workforce.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The right tools to work from home<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slow computer, poor lighting, bad chair : creating a productive and safe environment at home isn\u2019t always easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is why some companies offer their expertise on what good practices to put in place, on top of taking care of the installation and the repair of office equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstbasehq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstbase HQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a young American startup founded in 2018, for instance, offers a catalog of adapted equipment and also takes care of shipping and repair, as well as the return of the products when an employee leaves the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In France, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/flexlab.fr\/fr\/how-it-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flexlab<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers similar services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By subcontracting these kinds of tasks, important organizations can save costs and avoid dealing with materials located at different places, at each employees\u2019 home office.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Just like at the office<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication tools\u2019 popularity, like Microsoft Teams\u2019 or Zoom\u2019s, have skyrocketed during the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, other solutions are offered by startups, whose goals are to make employees feel closer to their teams and to boost their cohesion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sidekick.video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sidekick<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for instance, offers a tablet-like tool, with which an employee can see their colleagues at any time, when interacting with them or not, giving them the impression of being in the same room as the rest of their team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too intrusive? Only time will tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aubot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aubot<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, another startup, offers employees and managers the capacity to be physically present at each of their colleagues home via a small robot. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That way, they can interact with people or simply stroll around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working from home can also harm team cohesion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To remedy this situation, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eloops.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eloops<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gather teams together on an app where they can share common objectives, give rewards out, quizz each other and participate in team building challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>A work revolution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of startups are trying and will try to take profit out of the popularity of remote work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They will have to prove that their services are not only useful, but also cost-effective, for them as well as their clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They will also face big competitors, like Microsoft, which will continue to develop their own solutions, keeping teams\u2019 needs at heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In any case, we look forward to seeing how working from home will evolve in the coming years, and what practices and tools will end up being adopted by teams and employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6>Photo credits : Alexandru Acea \/ Unsplash<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several startups are here to help companies be the most efficient, even remotely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[27,16,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80524"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81457,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80524\/revisions\/81457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}