Tools for teleworks

During the last decades, the telecommunication has taken an extensive advancement in the global network. Companies look for more facilities arising from technologies which prove to be more profitable whilst working at distance in several ways. As we are all aware, the price of petrol had undergone a constant increase during the past few years and companies are quite reluctant with the monthly amount of money disbursed on petrol for employees. Another perpetual motive affiliated to the high increase in petrol is excessive transport fees of employees. For this specific reason, many companies mainly virtual one are increasingly asking employees to work from home. Another consideration might be the flexibility of moving to third world countries where standard of living and wages are comparatively low. Companies prefer to invest in communication and technologies to communicate with employees at distance. Below are a list of tools, with a constant innovation and friendly approach which enhance communication for telecommuting.

Tools facilitating swift and effective communication

To enable a swift communication between employees and teams, there exist a wide range of communication tools more or less with the same objectives.

Electronic mail

Electronic mail also pronounced email is a way of communicating information by writing send and received messages over a communicating system. This system of communication allow to send document and image as attachement to a designated recipient . Below is an example of group messenger offering the above mentioned uses.
Outlook Express - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/oe/default.mspx
Microsoft Outlook - http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook/default.aspx
Netscape Messenger- http://blog.netscape.com/2007/11/15/netscape-messenger-9-alpha-1-released/
IBM Lotus Messenger - http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/smartsuite/

Instant messenging

Instant messaging is newer than web based email services. This types of communication allow to create a private chat room with another recipient for exchanging instant messages.A great example can be MSN live messenger. This system allow you to know whenever a communicator is online which enable you to open a chat session with an individual. MSN messenger allows you to see the individual live through webcam. The below mentioned instant messenging offers more or less the same features:

AOL Messenger – http://www.aol.in/help/aim.jhtm
Trillan-http://www.trillian-messenger.net/
Pidgin- http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/integrate-facebook-chat-into-pidgin-instant-messenger/
Kopete-http://kopete.kde.org/
Yahoo Messenger-http://messenger.yahoo.com/
Gmail- http://www.gmail.com
ICQ - http://www.icq.com/

Talking through the internet

Some software allows to make free calls over the internet to user of the same service. Call to landline and mobile are however possible but payable. Skype is one the best software which largely avail the above mention. It also includes features like instant messaging, documents transfer and video conferences. Other software providing the same features :-

Stanaphone - https://www.stanaphone.com/
iCall- http://www.icall.com/
Callserve - http://www.callserve.com/Homepage.asp
Gtalk - http://www.google.com/talk/