I used to be against working from home...
I have had bad experiences with Odoo employees in the past, and heard stories of friends abusing it in their companies as well. Although I knew it could be productive, I was afraid of the downsides. So, we did not have any work from home policies at Odoo.
Last week, we went from 4 to 700 employees working remotely, almost overnight. And it's efficient! Everyone is working at full speed, and collaboration is still very good. Over the past 5 days, productivity did not decline.
Yesterday, I was able to meet with 12 different teams in less than two hours, all of which got me up to speed in just a few minutes.
In every crisis, there are opportunities. Ours was to improve the way we operate remotely.
If there is ONE company that could easily allow for remote work, it's Odoo. We are 100% paperless, from HR to operations, from finance to sales, 100% of our activities have been online for years.
More than that, it's our core business to digitize companies, and we provide services to our clients remotely.
Our mission has always been to offer tools for employees to work smarter, in order to make companies more productive. It's critical now more than ever before.
Here is a set of actions we launched to help companies:
For schools and universities
Odoo eLearning is free and open source. To help schools & universities organize courses online, we also provide free support and hosting, for unlimited students, forever. You can test the platform here: https://odoo.com/slides
Contact Charline (clo (at) odoo (DOT) com) to get started.
For private companies
To help you digitize all activities, we offer 50% discount on the first success pack service for all SMEs. Our experts are available to help you transform your company for the good: electronic signatures, collaboration tools, project management, social marketing, HR apps, etc. We want to do our part, helping SME's be able to afford their digitalization.
Our project managers work remotely, allowing us to get started right away. To get a demo, schedule an online meeting easily:
here: https://odoo.com/r/meeting-be for Europe and Africa
here: https://odoo.com/r/meeting-us for North America and Latin America.
You can check our pricing here:
https://www.odoo.com/pricing#implementation_service=success_pack
Note that Odoo is still free for one app. Whether you need a document management system, an electronic signature app, a website, a CRM, ... you can start at https://odoo.com/start
Feedback from our first week working from home