Remote working 101: Nine apps that will help you bust stress and beat work-from-home blues
Lakhs of people around the world have been forced to work from home.
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Apps that will ease your stress, help your productivity and, in general, make work from home more effective.
Given the urgent need for social distancing to contain COVID-19, lakhs of people all over the world have been forced to work from home. Many are also realising that pulling off remote working is not easy, given all the distractions. Here are 9 apps that will ease your stress, help your productivity and, in general, make work from home more effective.
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Headspace
Work from home can get stressful. That’s where this meditation app comes in. One can have 2-3 minute mini-meditation sessions for a quick mental reset.
Free and paid versions on Android, iOS
Hours This one helps you keep track of time. You can simply use a timer to track how and where you have spent all home-office hours. This can be for individuals as well as teams.
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Free on Android, iOS (in-app purchases)
Forest This app encourages you to put down your phone by planting seeds, which eventually grow into trees. It’s a fun app that helps you stay focused and reduce phone addiction.
Paid version on Android and iOS
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Take a Break, Please As the name suggests, this app tells you when it is time to take a break from your breakneck work schedule at home. You can configure the time between the breaks and their duration.
Free on Android, Windows (Free), Rs 76 on iOS
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Tide This one helps you stay focused by playing white noises and other background music. You can set timers and even get your sleep analysis done.
Free on Android and iOS (in-app purchases)
Down Dog Since heading out to the gym is out of the question these days, you can do some home yoga. This exercise app has over 60,000 different configurations — in other words, you won’t feel bored doing the same workout again and again.
Free on iOS, Android Hydro Coach While you feel burnt out while toiling at home, this app helps you calculate how much water you need, and also track what you drink. There is also a feature to remind you when you need to drink water next.
Rs 100 on Android
Join.me This is a handy app to share content and do conference calls. You can even share your screen with colleagues.
Free on Android, iOS
For The Sake Of Our Planet: 15 Clean Tech Start-Ups That Are Addressing Climate Change
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Tech for energy storage, smart metering, clean cooking, innovative EV solutions, battery technologies, energy monitoring systems and hydro turbine technologies are among the 15 winning start-ups announced and felicitated by Government of India, BIRAC, Tata Trusts, TATA Power and Social Alpha at a felicitation ceremony and innovation showcase of the Social Alpha Energy Challenge 2.0 (SAEC 2.0), last week. The winners were selected from more than 150 applicants across the country which were screened for their unique technology and business model, strong focus on affordability and accessibility and social, economic and environmental impact.
The selection for the winners of Social Alpha Energy Challenge 2.0 was made for two categories respectively - ‘pre-pilot’ and ‘post-pilot’, to address the needs of technologies and start-ups in different stages of product development. The pre-pilot category winners will be supported in their very early stage through handholding and mentorship for product development, including support in physical prototype development and testing. The post-pilot category start-ups are the ones that have crossed the proof of concept stage and have demonstrated a working prototype, and will be supported in the go-to-market execution.
The winners will be incubated by the Clean Energy International Incubation Centre (CEIIC). CEIIC, Social Alpha’s deep-tech Energy Innovation Lab, which is the joint initiative of the Government of India and Tata Trusts, supported by Department of Biotechnology, BIRAC, Tata Power and Tata Power-Delhi Distribution Limited. CEIIC will support entrepreneurs by providing industry and field connect critical for product development .
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