Here is my advice, based on many years managing a remote ops team across the continent: you do not need another tool!<p>The good old email and phone is just enough, providing you trust the people you work with (if you don't then this is on you as a manager an no tool will help you)<p>Ask to be cced on the the important problems/projects and have 1 team meeting for few hours Wednesday afternoon, so everyone can share not only work related stuff, but encourage the team to talk about Life, the Universe and Everything... Get to know the people who work with you, have all hands meeting for few days every year, go out for drinks ...<p>Have their backs, no netter what, even if you risk yours...<p>Those simple steps should be enough and have served me well over the years, because, really noting beats working form home...
Good outline. Another great resource is Andreas Klinger's Crash Course <a href="https://klinger.io/post/180989912140/managing-remote-teams-a-crash-course" rel="nofollow">https://klinger.io/post/180989912140/managing-remote-teams-a...</a>
I've already posted the news to HN yesterday, but it didn't get any traction. Anyway one of the best remote collaboration platforms Bitrix24 is now free to an unlimited number of users until COVID-19 threat is over - <a href="https://www.bitrix24.com/about/blogs/bitrix24-tips-and-updates/bitrix24-coronavirus-remote-working-and-contingency-planning.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.bitrix24.com/about/blogs/bitrix24-tips-and-updat...</a>