Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

The old ways of intrusive monitoring have long gone with the introduction of GDPR. It sets strict standards for how employee data is collected, stored, and used. So, choosing a tracking software blindly can burn your business empire to the core. The good news is that some monitoring tools are just built differently, with ensuring compliance as the number one priority.

If you work in an office, company news lands in your inbox or Slack. You scroll through it with your morning coffee, skim what matters, ignore what doesn’t. But if you work in a warehouse, on a hospital floor, or in a manufacturing plant, staying informed takes more effort. By the time an announcement filters down through supervisors or gets posted on a bulletin board, it’s already old.

Your products or services are as good as old books eating dust in the storeroom unless you market them right. The first step to marketing your products and services to the right consumer base is understanding the marketing environment around your industry.

Most agencies and consultancies hit the same wall as they grow: Projects keep selling, but profits don’t. You win work by being flexible and “tailored,” but that flexibility comes at a cost—proposals balloon, delivery gets messy, and margins quietly disappear. Suddenly, your team’s creativity is buried under admin, scope creep, and endless firefighting. That’s the pattern Brian Kessman has spent the last decade helping firms break.

At The Matrix Conference 2025, I had the opportunity to present how we’re building large-scale, multi-tenancy hosting for TI-Messenger - the standard for secure communications across the German healthcare system.

As hybrid work becomes the norm, tracking workplace attendance has become increasingly complex. There are several important factors that influence the accuracy and significance of workplace attendance metrics, including employee satisfaction, work-life balance, and incidental costs. These elements play a critical role in understanding and improving employee retention and human capital ROI.

These days, companies everywhere are asking: how can I get more teams using AI? And what should I do besides just saying “use AI” or forcing everyone to take yet another training? At Atlassian, we’ve found that meaningful adoption comes when teams are inspired to experiment and see firsthand how AI can elevate their work. This was the guiding thought behind our AI Product Builders week.

So, you sit down and crack your knuckles, ready to calculate employee hours like a boss. However, frustration takes over. Relatable. Isn’t it? There are many things to take into account to calculate employee work time accurately. Plus, don’t forget to include overtime and time off (paid and unpaid) to accrue payroll processing. Errors here can be costly. $71700 per 1000 employees, to be precise. Plus, don’t forget that up to 4% of payroll costs can go into correcting payroll errors.

As a project manager, I’ve experienced firsthand how planning can make or break a campaign. From coordinating team calendars to tracking the ROI of social media ads and demonstrating business value, the right marketing planning software feels like a trusted extension of your team, offering robust capabilities.

There was a time when I thought productivity meant staying busy. At least this is how our entire team used to work. We always had dashboards full of activity logs, task counts, and online hours. Everyone seemed active, yet somehow, our results didn’t match our effort. I can remember, we used to slip deadlines more often. Even the creativity and motivation of work were getting worse. That’s when I thought, maybe we are following the wrong pattern of work.