In response to the present global pandemic, more and more businesses have shifted to remote working arrangements for employees and teams. Working from home has gradually become the new normal - an adaptive measure allowing businesses to continue operations, with reduced risk to the health and safety of their workforce. Thus, creating a growing need for tools and apps that enable efficient virtual collaboration, in the absence of face-to-face interaction.

Lark is the next generation collaborative suite that integrates multiple essential functions into a single platform, eliminating the need to juggle between apps while working. Signing up for a free account on Lark equips your team with the necessary tools to boost their productivity from anywhere.

With Lark Messenger, team members can instantly exchange information with one another. Emojis make messaging fun and interactive, and allow for quick reactions within the team chat, reducing noise by eliminating multiple replies to the same message. The team calendar may be viewed within the chat window, making it easy to check everyone’s schedules and reduce unnecessary notifications for team members in the group chat, all in one place. And more one-click translations are also available in Lark Messenger, eliminating the language issue for cross-country collaboration, if any.

Pulling up a group chat or accessing a video call from a Lark Calendar event is easy to do as well. This smart calendar also features a multi time zone view, to avoid scheduling confusion among team members around the world.

A free Lark account gives users UNLIMITED Video Conferencing with advanced screen sharing capabilities. You can share editable content within the video call window, allowing real time revisions and additions to documents during virtual meetings. Its new live streaming feature opens up even more possibilities for online collaboration, allowing larger audiences to join in and view broadcasts.

Lark also offers a wide range of advanced video conferencing features optimized for remote working environments, including blurring your background, touching up your appearance and reducing background noise and the sound of keyboard typing.

Lark Docs enables multi-user collaboration on online spreadsheets and documents. For easy reference, you can simply tag other Lark docs, team members, and even chat groups within a document. No more time wasted searching through folders for what you need. Lark's powerful universal search feature allows you to locate information from within your organization's unlimited chat history, documents and calendar events instantly. With 200GB cloud storage included in a free Lark account, there is more than enough room to store your work files, images, and videos.  

Finally, access other productivity and monitoring tools by connecting external apps through Lark Workplace. Some add-on features provide customizable attendance and approval workflow.

Lark Workplace also supports a wide range of third party integrations, including project management tools such as Asana and Jira, analytics monitoring through Google Analytics, and CRM solutions such as Salesforce and Zendesk.

Available on Mac, PC, iOS and Android, teams can continue working together flexibly and effectively inside and outside the office with Lark.