Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Recognition programs don’t lose relevance because companies stop caring. They become less effective when recognition happens in the wrong place, at the wrong time, or outside the flow of day‑to‑day work. A shout‑out buried in a Slack channel or an annual award that soon fades can turn recognition into background noise. In a recent webinar, three companies shared how they avoided those pitfalls and made recognition more relevant and lasting.

VPNs aren’t dying—they’re doubling. According to TechRadar, analysts forecast the business-VPN market to jump from $5.7 billion in 2024 to more than $10 billion by 2033, even as Zero Trust grabs headlines. Why the surge? Deep packet inspection (DPI) still slams the door on conventional VPN traffic, stranding remote workers behind hotel Wi-Fi, corporate firewalls, and national censorship. Teams need tunnels that blend in, not stand out.

Subtasks are one of the most useful parts of Asana. They let you break a big task into smaller steps, assign pieces of work to different people, and track progress without losing sight of the bigger picture. But working with subtasks used to take a few extra steps. You'd leave your project view, open a task pane, and work from there. If you wanted to turn an existing task into a subtask, you had to open a menu, search for the parent task by name, and click through a few more steps to confirm.

For years, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) has been the gold standard for digital privacy. But it has always come with a silent trade-off: when you add a new member to an encrypted chat, they arrive at a blank slate (as in, they can’t see conversation history). Any previous conversation - no matter how vital to their onboarding - remained locked away, accessible only to those who were already there.

Since we first launched custom agents in May of 2024, we’ve seen teams use Rovo to build agents in Confluence that help them accomplish everything from turning customer feedback into PRDs to maintaining consistency across large sets of data and processes. And agents are getting even more popular, with over 5M invocations of agents every month. They take the foundation of knowledge that lives in Confluence, and act on it, saving customers over 200K hours in February alone.