Improve remote team engagement with these 10 remote work Slack apps

The philosophy behind Range is to reduce micromanaging and start automating tasks for status updates so that your teammates can plan ahead and reflect on their goals. If your teams are working across multiple tools and you need a platform to bring all the updates into one place, Range is the right tool. Range has Google Docs, Jira and Github data integrations and over 300 team building question templates.

Fellow is the perfect app to make meetings more effective. It helps teams set Slack messages as agenda, notes and to send action items. Fellow helps drive engagement and productivity with a collaborative agenda, note taking templates and time saving check-in and retrospectives.

To beat the blues of remote work, Ricotta Trivia lets you host quizzes from a set of 5000+ questions and 10+ fun categories each. Ricotta helps teams to boost employee morale and engagement with weekly contests and daily trivia. Ricotta Trivia has custom icebreakers and games like this or that and 2 truths and 1 lie.

Shuffl creates random teams out of a larger group and prompts them to bond over virtual calls with suggested icebreaker topics and interests. The paid tier has smart shuffles to create harmony among teams and collaborate better. The paid tier includes KPI monitoring and metrics report. There are several use cases ranging from weekly socials for teams to onboarding.

Let's say you have to make a decision on Slack. You ask a question and based on the trigger word, the decider pops-up and asks a few questions about the decision you are yet to take and suggests models based on your answers. You can share the model with the team to ensure you take a much better decision.

HeyTaco helps employees communicate all the great things happening on your team. Small nudges like active leaderboard, friendly competition pushes people to give and receive tacos. Teams can use tacos to celebrate and reward themselves with a curated list of remote friendly ways

Evergreen plants a tree for every single recognition given by a team member. They also have a carbon offset tracker to see how much recognition your team has given, which is a major employee morale metric. Evergreen helps enhance company culture and track engagement while being super easy to use.

In a remote setting, it becomes difficult to achieve an effective and an engaging onboarding process for new hires. Pringa creates an onboarding channel and facilitates 1:1 mentorship, cross departmental introductions which helps in collaboration between different verticals. It also includes fun elements like finding common interest groups!

Water cooler trivia is an asynchronous trivia contest app which has weekly contests based on categories which the teams can schedule and the results are displayed on a leaderboard. Teams usually use this as a team building tool when working remotely.

Watercooler pairs up two teammates randomly and suggests ice breaker topics to talk about. Teams that are working remote should have this tool to feel less isolated and more connected to the team.

Empuls by Xoxoday is an employee engagement platform on Slack. It helps teams appreciate and reward their team members using a point system. These points can be redeemed for gift cards and fun experiences. Empuls can also be used to conduct pulse surveys & get employee feedback.