The modern workplace is a vastly different environment than it used to be. Gone are the days of simply showing up and punching in at 9 am for your 8-hour shift. Today, people work from home, from coffee shops, from coworking spaces – anywhere they can get enough bandwidth to make their laptops hum. This new way of working has many advantages: no commute time or gas costs; more flexible hours; less distance between coworkers and managers; greater productivity with fewer distractions at home.

But at the same time, this trend also means that employers need better tools to help them manage remote employees effectively.  That is why this article would be covering important software programs that would make managing employees working remotely easy.

Asana

Asana is a project management tool that helps managers and teams collaborate with one another. With Asana, you can keep track of the progress each team member makes on their assigned tasks and projects. You can also see how much time they spend per day on which particular task and whether any potential issues arise in terms of conflicting priorities between teammates.

Another useful feature is its chat function with notifications so managers can stay up-to-date as to what is going on. It will help them ensure everything runs smoothly without having to check in too often or interrupting people’s workflow.

It can also be described as a ticketing system that helps the team remain focused and accountable for the tasks at hand. All these features and more make the software a valuable tool for managers working with remote employees.

ProProfs Project Management

ProProfs is another useful tool for managing projects and keeping deadlines in check. It provides a place to store all the information you need to track your project from start to finish, including files, questions, templates, templates, shared calendars for setting due dates and milestones along with due date notifications.

You can also upload documents from Google Drive or Dropbox directly into ProProfs – ensuring that everything that needs to be seen by the team members involved is always available. For remote employees who travel constantly between time zones and places, it offers an easy way of sharing schedules so everyone is on the same page and knows when requests should be submitted and when important deadlines are coming up.

WorkPuls

It is an easy-to-use employee monitoring software that also keeps deadlines in check, tracks computer activities, takes screenshots at regular intervals, and helps to verify your employees are actually working. As a team lead or manager, your business can avoid incurring unnecessary debts and increase your profit margin with better project budgeting. WorkPuls helps to make budget forecasting more of a genuine prediction rather than random guesswork. It also helps to identify areas where project costs could be cut without hurting productivity. Sounds great, right?

Cool Timer

It is one of the simplest employee monitoring tools out there because it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of some of its competitors. However, it still provides many functions managers may find useful in day-to-day work with remote employees, including task/project tracking, real-time notifications for overdue deadlines, ability to set timers for breaks or certain periods during which an employee cannot work (for example, lunch breaks), and automatic screenshots taken every 15 minutes.

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Hive

Hive is a great example of how remote employees can stay in touch with office colleagues. It provides an online space for remote workers to ask questions to the team, share files and information, collaborate over shared documents (such as spreadsheets), chat about project-related matters, and leave notes for members not currently in the office.

Time Doctor

Time Doctor is another time tracking tool that helps managers keep track of how long different tasks take without having to constantly bug their employees or interrupt them while they are working. You can also see who spends most of the day on which task – useful knowledge for future assignment planning.

The software records keystrokes, websites visited, applications used (down to the second), along with other general computer usages.

TeamViewer

Finally, TeamViewer is a simple tool that allows team members to keep an eye on what their colleagues are doing at any time – for example, managers can use it to see what contractors have been working on and check if they are actually making progress. It also helps in case of technical issues or other problems that require immediate attention from the IT department.

All these software programs provide useful features that will make managing remote workers easier – especially when combined with regular calls or video chats (like many of them offer). With all this information available, you can avoid wasting money hiring people who aren’t truly contributing to your business goals while ensuring everyone is accountable for his/her work and deadlines are met.