Lima Alasan Pegawai yang Bekerja Secara Remote Menguntungkan Startup

Kehadiran startup secara langsung telah memperkenalkan konsep bekerja secara remote atau di luar kantor kepada pegawainya. Alasannya sederhana, untuk memudahkan proses kolaborasi dan tentunya menekan biaya atau pengeluaran, terutama jika memperkerjakan pegawai yang lokasinya jauh dari kantor pusat atau di luar kota.

Bagi pegawai sendiri bekerja secara remote ternyata cukup memberikan suasana baru yang lebih segar dan fleksibel. Tidak harus menempuh perjalanan pergi dan pulang ke tempat bekerja yang pastinya diwarnai dengan kemacetan, belum lagi dengan lingkungan bekerja yang terkesan monoton dan membosankan, hal tersebut yang selama ini menjadi salah satu penyebab menurunnya produktivitas kerja. Artikel berikut ini akan membahas 5 poin menarik yang ternyata memberikan manfaat baik untuk pegawai yang bekerja secara remote.

Menghilangkan stres

Kebebasan untuk memilih sendiri tempat bekerja yang diinginkan ternyata cukup ampuh untuk meningkatkan kreativitas dan produktivitas kerja. Untuk itu sudah banyak startup asing yang saat ini justru menganjurkan perusahaan konvensional untuk kemudian melakukan hal yang serupa, yaitu memberikan pilihan untuk pegawainya bekerja secara remote.

Komunikasi lancar dengan teknologi

Bekerja secara remote bukan berarti Anda tidak bisa mengontrol kinerja pegawai, saat ini teknologi sudah banyak menawarkan tools dan aplikasi terkini yang bisa digunakan untuk memperlancar komunikasi dengan pegawai yang bekerja secara remote. Kemudahan dan efisiensi yang ditawarkan oleh Slack untuk komunikasi, Cloud untuk menyimpan hasil kerja dan bisa dilihat bersama, Trello untuk melihat aktivitas kerja pegawai hingga Skype atau Google Hangout untuk melakukan konferensi, merupakan tools yang paling ideal untuk digunakan.

Menekan biaya operasional

Salah satu kelebihan dengan menerapkan proses bekerja secara remote kepada pegawai tentunya bisa menekan pengeluaran perusahaan. Terutama jika Anda membutuhkan tenaga ahli seperti engineer yang kebetulan bermukim di luar kota. Dari pada membawa pegawai tersebut ke kantor pusat serta meluangkan budget khusus untuk tempat tinggal dan transportasi, dengan bekerja secara remote pengeluaran tersebut bisa dipangkas, namun tidak mengurangi hasil kerja dari tenaga ahli tersebut.

Pekerja remote lebih ‘engage’

Pekerja remote biasanya lebih ‘happy’ dan puas dengan kondisi kerja yang ada, sehingga mereka semakin bersemangat dan selalu menawarkan adanya tugas yang bisa diselesaikan. Hal tersebut tentunya bisa memberikan manfaat lebih untuk perusahaan, ketika pegawai lebih ‘engage’ dengan pekerjaan dan tentunya perusahaan.

Tempat umum lebih ‘ideal’ dari kantor

Bekerja di coffee shop, perpustakaan atau food court yang pada umumnya banyak dipilih oleh pekerja remote ternyata merupakan lokasi ideal dan tentunya lebih menyenangkan dibandingkan dengan suasana kantor yang kaku dan membosankan. Karena alasan itulah pegawai yang bekerja secara remote biasanya lebih fokus dan lebih cepat menyelesaikan pekerjaan karena suasana hati yang positif, dibandingkan dengan pekerja di kantor pada umumnya.

[Event] Annual 1% Event Made Its Way to Jakarta

If you have a platform to accommodate, would you share 1% of your knowledge, time or money to people all over the world? Well, I would! That’s what the 1% CLUB has been trying to do through their website: crowdsourcing solution for social projects all over the world. And to give the ‘1% experience’, they create the annual 1% EVENT. This year, nine countries participated in this co-creation event, they are: The Netherlands, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Palestine, Tunisia, Somaliland, Indonesia, and Sudan.

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[Simply Business] The Need For Collaborating and Networking

I was just getting back home from a nice #geekball* session with the guys and we decided to hang out a bit at Tista’s office for some drinks and BBQ. We had a long chat about the NBA, Star Trek,  and ended up with some collaboration ideas among our companies, sponsorship deal, and creating a CTO Club for sharing technical problems and solutions. How can a random discussion leads to a productive collaboration? No idea but that’s something that can happen when you’re hanging out with like-minded people.

This is not the first time it happened and it sure won’t be the last. Most collaboration and ideas are born outside of formal meetings. Most of the big deals of my life were born over drinks, at an after-play at a basketball court or just hanging out with friends and future partners. Formal meetings are just for the sake of formality and signing documents.

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Volpen Holds Writing Collaborative Competition

Volpen, a service for writing collaboration, holds a writing collaborative competition with iPad 3 as  prize for the winner. In this writing collaboration competition, you are required to work and compete at the same time with other friends to write a book.

This competition requires you to write a segment of a book with the length of 200 to 4000 words for each chapter. The book will be finished when it reaches ten chapters. So, you will be asked to invite your friends to support each chapter you wrote by voting. The winner will be the book that has the most votes, while iPad 3 winner is the writer of the most voted chapter in the winner’s book. It means that the winner with most votes is the writer of a chapter in the book with the most votes as well.

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GeekFest 2012 Pushes Collaboration Between Communities

GeekFest 2012 (GeekFestID 2012) have been held on Saturday and Sunday, March 31 – April 1, 2012. The event, organized by Fowab and KibarKreasi, was held at Sasana Ganesha (Sabuga) Bandung, inviting more than 20 participants from various communities.

GeekFest itself, inspired by SXSW, as mentioned in the press release some time ago, is intended to collaborate variety of existing communities such as music, video, multimedia, information technology and gaming communities. The event was devided to several programs, such as main program, mini stage and exhibition from several communities. Aside from the already mentioned above, there are also comic, art graffiti and other communities.

Although not every community gave the work of collaboration, the highlight of the main event is about collaboration. In addition to collaboration in the form of work, collaboration also comes with a gathering of several communities in one event.

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Volpen helps writers collaborate with others to write a book

There is now a startup that helps people to independently publish book, namely NulisBuku.com. Although helpful in publishing books, NulisBuku does not provide means for cooperation among enthusiasts/writers to collaborate, especially online. Volpen is the solution for those who wish to write a book and collaborate with others for the completion of the manuscript.

According to its founder, Daniel Liejardi, Volpen has been established since December last year. Initially he used English and recently added a multilingual feature so Bahasa Indonesia speaking users can use Volpen to maximum. Daniel himself makes sure that Volpen is 100% made by Indonesian people and he hopes that it could obtain at least 3000 new Bahasa Indonesia writers in the next two months.

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Two Additional Partners for Financial Consultants in NgaturDuit.com

As featured in DailySocial, NgaturDuit, a service for financial record, plan, and manage announced their collaboration with additional financial consultant groups and now the groups’ logos have appeared in NgaturDuit.com. So, now other than their main partner Akbar’s Financial Check-up (AFC) they are also supported by 2 new partners, Finansia Consulting and Tatadana.

DailySocial tried to contact Api Perdana from NgaturDuit to find out about their strategy on this, including several new developments from their service. Perdana explained that AFC is their main partner and the collaboration with the new two partners is based on discussion with AFC.

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DailySocial in CHIP Magazine

For those who follow the DailySocial Twitter account probably already knew that there are now DailySocial articles in the CHIP magazine. Yup, DailySocial cooperates with CHIP magazine to present some articles published in the monthly edition of CHIP magazine.

Starting with the April 2011 edition, there will be some articles about the world of technology development in Indonesia (local news), information about the startup as well as various news around the web or mobile-based services that published in DailySocial also will be published in the Indonesian edition of CHIP magazine.

DailySocial editorial team will be working with the editorial team of CHIP magazine to present some selected news for CHIP magazine readers. For the April 2011 edition, there are three local news that was published: about Amplop.in service, news about Zynga Game Cards and also news about the partnership of Kaskus and GDP Venture.

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