An honest review of popular services and explanation of when Remote.Team can be an alternative. Slack, Monday.com, and Basecamp have long been associated with remote work. But are they right for every team? Behind the popularity often hide unnecessary features, notification overload, and distracting factors. Let's compare them with Remote.Team, a platform that focuses on security, calm work, and results.

In a distributed team, there's no office background to tell you someone is busy. There are only numbers and results that show the real picture. Now we'll break down point by point what exactly we measure and what insights this gives to managers.

A familiar feeling: you sat in calls all day, but only started real work in the evening? If you add different time zones to this, the situation gets even worse: someone is forced to get up at five in the morning, while someone else sits in front of a camera at night. We decided not to play this game and built Remote.Team around asynchronous communication, intentionally refusing built-in audio and video calls. This is not a technical limitation, but our philosophy of productivity.

Tags are one of the simplest and most underrated tools in project work. Their smart use in our task planner saves time and brings order to tasks and discussions.

In most teams, the messenger and the task planner live on different planets. First, you discuss a project in a chat for half an hour, and then you go to a third-party application to manually create a task. At remote.team, we have erased this boundary. In this article, we will analyze how our tasks (we call them "requests") help make the team's work more transparent and efficient.

Over the past five years, the digital collaborative landscape has seen a significant transformation, evolving from a model of intermittent telecommuting to a thriving, long-term remote-first economy. Software that connects efficiency with human connection is not only a luxury in this cutthroat market, but also essential to operational survival.

In modern teams, work is rarely limited to full-time employees only. Contractors, freelancers, clients, and partners all take part in processes, discussions, and tasks. That’s why remote.team offers a convenient and flexible guest access feature.

Let's be honest: when you try to grow a global team, you often encounter challenges with onboarding new people. Most businesses must undergo a lengthy process of compliance checks, shipping tools, and setting up access, which often prevents talented people from working on new projects for weeks.

Many chats and task managers like to claim “end-to-end encryption,” but in reality, they store the keys on their servers. This means that if they want to, the government, administrators, or third parties can access your correspondence.

You've already experienced how our chat with task planner makes work simpler and more secure? Now you can help other teams do the same and earn $200 for each referral.