One of the perennial problems associated with remote teams is coordination. This is especially true if a remote team is spread out across time zones. Different employees often receive messages sent by team leaders at different times. There will be times when managers have to reach out to an employee for something, but a person has either stopped working or not yet started for the day. 

Managers can avoid these communication delays by integrating their communication platforms like Slack with their task management tools like Trello and Airtable. The software company Zapier, through their ‘zaps’ tools, allows businesses to integrate these two fundamentally important platforms so that the task management tools are updating the communication channels in real-time. The amount of time that can be saved by automating these updates makes remote teams much more efficient.