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Stop and think before you infect your company with Zoom and Slack
“With the right set of apps, you can maintain a close-knit and productive working environment” says Zoho as they re-bundle eleven tools into a package called Remotely. GoToMeeting has re-bundled four tools into an Emergency Remote Work Kit. Zoom, Slack, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, and many other telecommunication companies are talking about or offering changes to their pricing in the wake of the coronavirus and the impact of COVID-19.
Pushing eleven new tools on to a person adjusting to working from home is one of the worst decisions you could make right now as you plan for business continuity. It is a new login to remember, a new URL to bookmark, likely several onboarding emails, eleven new, and quite abstract, names to internalize, and dozens of potential incompatibilities with their devices. Do you even know how these tools work and can you support your staff as they attempt to use them?
You will be pressured to respond by making bold and company-wide decisions. Realize that you are up against the marketing teams of billion-dollar companies with huge investments in their remote working products. You are up against a media system bullish about stock prices for remote working product companies. A hassle-free trial now is a difficult to refuse DocuSign agreement for several thousand…
