Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

We’re excited to roll out a set of major UI improvements on iOS that will enhance the way you interact with your messages. From new gesture controls to refined conversation layouts, here’s everything you need to know about the latest updates.

When you’re managing multiple things, tasks, deadlines, feedback loops, and shifting priorities, your notes can’t live in five different places. If your notes are scattered across notebooks, emails, and post-its, you’ll struggle to power through. To complicate matters, sticky notes don’t scale. Your memory isn’t reliable. And context gets lost quickly when you’re switching tools every hour. This is where a digital note-taking tool like OneNote earns its keep.

Direct deposit is the electronic transfer of a paycheck directly into an employee’s bank account. Instead of issuing a paper check, the employer initiates an Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer that routes the funds straight to the employee’s bank. Employers choose to pay employees by direct deposit for several reasons. It’s faster, more accurate, and easier to manage than paper checks. It reduces the cost of printing checks. And it also lowers the chances of lost or stolen checks.

In healthcare and life sciences, communication is more than coordination — it’s care itself. A single delay, a missed update, or a message lost in the noise can mean real consequences for patients. That’s the reason why clinical communication is far more than collegial conversation now. It is a structured, high-stakes info sharing with roles, departments, and facilities involved.

Human Resource management is crucial for the sustainable growth of the business. If you are a small business owner with a hybrid and remote team, you might find it challenging to micromanage employees, whether payroll, leave, compliance, or onboarding. The HR professional helps businesses manage employee onboarding, compliance, and performance training. However, hiring HR professionals for small businesses manually can be costly.

Imagine a ship setting sail without a map, compass, or clear destination. The crew may work hard, but their efforts could be in vain—leading to wasted resources, frustration, and even disaster. This is exactly what happens when teams operate without a clear charter. Studies show that projects often fail due to poor communication or miscommunication, while 37% fail because of a lack of clearly defined objectives and milestones—problems a well-crafted team charter can help prevent.

By the start of 2024, only 33% of employees were engaged in their work and workplace. That is not a statistic but an alarm for the organizations, showing that it is deep and serious on the systemic business issue. Low employee engagement nurtures low productivity, increased turnover, and therefore increased recruitment drives. Disengaged employees cost companies billions every year in lost productivity.

Running a small business is like trying to get a ship through stormy seas. Deadlines crash in like waves, the budget is as tight as the sails, and your crew looks up to you for guidance to get them through it. It’s tough, but there’s a lifeboat: project management software. No matter how rough the waters get, this tool can help streamline tasks, improve communication, and keep you on track.

Zendesk recently launched its brand-new Dashboard Builder, and there’s plenty to get excited about. To help you get the most out of it, we asked Zendesk Expert Jude Kriwald to break it all down. In this post, he covers what’s changed, what’s improved, where there might be challenges, and how to successfully migrate your existing dashboards. Zendesk recently launched a new Dashboard Builder in Explore.

Explore why biometric tracking may not be the answer and discover smarter, privacy-first ways to improve productivity and security with workforce monitoring software.