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Key Summary: Once, I was managing a remote team, and it was difficult to balance work and privacy. As a manager, I needed to track their progress. But I didn’t want them to feel like I was spying on them! That’s when I realized the key difference between monitoring vs. spying. Monitoring is about transparency. It tracks project progress, time use, and software activity. Employees know what is being monitored and why. So they feel supported rather than surveilled.

Your team wants to make an impact – they just need clarity on what’s actually going to move the needle.

Attendance and time tracking are a challenge for businesses, especially in hybrid or remote work mode. Employees often forget to log in on time, missed punches, proxy attendance, and manual errors can lead to miscalculations in attendance and payroll management. They can struggle with accuracy, compliance, and efficiency without any proper management system.

Slack's latest report reveals how AI agents are transforming the workplace — and why businesses must adopt a digital labour platform to stay ahead.

Be honest: How often do you catch yourself saying, “I wish there were just a few more hours in the day?” It’s not because you’re procrastinating or being inefficient. You begin each day with a full schedule, solid goals, and a cup of coffee, but then—between urgent meetings and unexpected tasks time seems to slip through your fingers. By the end of the day, you’re left wondering where it all went.

The data doesn’t lie—a good onboarding process leads to happier, more productive employees. But while onboarding can increase retention rates by 82%, only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job of onboarding new hires. Creating a smooth onboarding process is challenging, so it’s not surprising that some organizations fall short. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Accurately tracking billable hours can make you go from less productivity to skyrocketing profitability like that. However, this is easier said than done. Well, not anymore. Welcome to my guide to saving time and money. In today’s blog, I will take you through the top 6 billable hours trackers in 2025 and provide more useful insights.

A project dependency is a task that relies on the completion of a different task. This article breaks down key terms associated with dependencies and the different kinds of dependencies you may see in project management. Much like a relay race, projects are often completed by passing tasks from one team member to the next. Unlike a relay race, some project tasks require other tasks to move forward before they can be started. This relationship between tasks is known as a dependency.

Initiatives can’t succeed without the right resources. Nobody knows this better than Rita Khayat, Asana’s Head of PMO for Strategy and Operations. Khayat is responsible for keeping business-critical goals on track—which she does by allocating the right resources, at the right time, to the most important work. Khayat’s team is responsible for four main business areas within the CIO org: Resource management is essential for each of these areas.

Rita Khayat is an expert at managing complex, company-wide programs. As Asana’s Head of PMO for Strategy and Operations, Khayat is responsible for keeping business-critical goals on track. She does this with clear processes, 20+ years of experience, and a knack for using Asana to its full potential. Khayat’s team is responsible for four main business areas within the CIO org: Together, these responsibilities span many different teams and require a high level of cross-functional coordination.