Work from home software - tool to manage home-based businesses and remote long-term employed staff

Work from home software is a set of different tools that are used to support specialists whose workplaces are not in public offices, but in remote locations, for example at their apartments.
Because of some circumstances, or objective choice, some people decide to work at home, but still they have to collaborate with their colleagues, partners and superiors (some companies provide special "work from home program" that stands for recruiting teleworkers). It is used to help such people with communicating. Every product that helps remotely working specialists to maintain communications with their main offices, their partners and co-workers, can be considered as an application. For example Skype (or any other voice/video conferencing tool) is a good example as it helps to maintain live contact between people. Another essential purpose of the application is to help home-based enterprises, when several team members involved into common projects live in different places.

• Specific example

Outstanding example of work from home software is VIP Task Manager. This effective system can maintain collaborative interrelations between specialists, working from their home workplaces, and their team members. If company decides to resort to the program in order to outsource its projects through involvement external assistance, company managers should consider that system as proper means to control outsourced tasks. Also, business managers are able to streamline their workflows by implementing this application to bond up their teams.

• Technology and purpose

So how can that system help? VIP Task Manager is real-time work from home program that allows project planning and controlling through using different adjustable modes (timeline, calendar, task tree, to-do list) and helps work from home manager in analyzing performance of workgroup in order to identify project evolution, costs and team efficiency. In other words this work from home software enables you to plan multiple tasks with all necessary details, assign them to partners and track work execution in real-time.

VIP Task Manager is software that can work via LAN and/or Internet. Of course in order to maintain home-based projects, all team members working in allocated places should have stable Internet access in order to establish computer-based communications through this package. It works according to client-server architecture and its server component with database should be placed on a server with static IP address or on third party hosted server in the Internet. Another solution is to deploy VIP Task Manager over VPN.

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