Some, Sheppard among them, gather with employees for periodic dinners or other social activities.Įmployees overall are doing more telecommuting, though it's hard to quantify how many work remotely and how many of those are at small companies. Many owners have at least one meeting a year that brings far-flung staffers together. Video services like Skype and Zoom are also popular. He has six employees, all in the Toronto area. Sheppard, like many other owners, uses messaging programs like Google Hangout and Slack that let remote staffers hold group or individual chats. "This makes it difficult to gauge employee emotions, morale, and well-being." "There is only so much that you can communicate through text," says Max Sheppard, CEO of TrustedPros, an online service that helps people find home-improvement workers. And sometimes interaction isn't quite as effective as it is in person.
But there can be downsides, including the risk of personal and professional isolation. Among the upsides: It expands the pool of job candidates, and lowers a company's overhead since there's no need for a big office. Having a remote staff can be a good fit for many companies. NEW YORK (AP) - At more small businesses, any watercooler chat takes place in a messaging app. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. With LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference Reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We monitor all Virtual Meetings reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. See our list of best Virtual Meetings vendors. GoToMeeting is most compared with Zoom, Adobe Connect, TeamViewer, BlueJeans Meetings and Webex, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, TeamViewer, Zoom, 3CX Live Chat and Cisco Jabber. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skype for Business writes "Communication and collaboration tool with multi-device setup, but lacks dynamic file updating". The top reviewer of GoToMeeting writes "It features low latency, which is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work". GoToMeeting is rated 7.8, while Skype for Business is rated 7.2. GoToMeeting is ranked 8th in Virtual Meetings with 6 reviews while Skype for Business is ranked 7th in Virtual Meetings with 18 reviews.
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