And Skype can also be linked to Microsoft's business software including Office productivity programs and Lync, multimedia software for workers collaborating on projects.
That's because Office 2003′s breakthrough features — its ability to let workers collaborate on intelligent work files — work only by hooking into Microsoft's latest server products.
As the Internet replaces the functionality of the traditional office, new technology is emerging that lets workers collaborate on reports, presentations and other documents in a way never before possible.
In Europe, these groups of white- and blue-collar workers collaborate on issues such as plant rules, work hours and vacations.
It simplifies sharing and collaborating on projects.
Freelancer.com lets companies post jobs to freelancers, but, in a hat tip to the big trend these days for crowdsourcing, it also has structured its site to let individual workers collaborate together on projects.
In the future, Dropbox is likely to build things like tools for workers to collaborate on company material.
It was not until 1993 that "groupware" and "workflow" software became widespread in American offices, allowing teams of workers to collaborate on electronic documents simultaneously.
In 2010, Knight's research group found that, when they allowed students and workers to collaborate on decorating their offices, the subjects reported higher workplace satisfaction and well-being, on average, than those who were forced to abide by their employer's tastes, whether lean or enhanced.
This means that co-workers can collaborate on a document in real-time.
