Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

These three small but mighty updates we shipped in June are here to make working in Teamwork.com that much easier.

On 17 June Germany’s federal government and 16 Länder (states), led by The IT Planning Council, confirmed that ZaPuK will be a cornerstone of Germany’s Deutschland-Stack. The Deutschland-Stack (D-Stack) is Germany’s national sovereign technology platform designed to serve as a uniform, cross-governmental IT architecture.

Hybrid work won. Not loudly, not with a press release, but the numbers settled it sometime in the last eighteen months. If you're trying to figure out where remote work actually stands in 2026, past the headlines about Amazon and JPMorgan dragging people back to desks, the data tells a more layered story than "remote is dying" or "remote is everything now." It's neither. It's something more specific, and a little messier, which is usually how real workplace shifts go.

Team messaging has come a long way from the basic chat apps of a decade ago. Back then, the goal was simple: get everyone on the same page quickly. In 2026, that baseline expectation feels almost quaint. Today's high-performing teams aren't just communicating—they're operating inside intelligent systems that anticipate needs, eliminate busywork, and turn raw conversation into measurable progress.

Professional services teams are often convinced they have a "people problem" when what they really have is a visibility problem. Tasks scattered across three tools, time logged in a spreadsheet nobody checks, and deadlines that only surface when a client emails asking for an update. Before I joined Teamwork.com, I spent years managing client projects at agencies where this was just how things worked. Monday mornings started with a 45-minute standup that could have been a dashboard.

Work management software helps teams plan, assign, and track tasks in one platform. Compare the top 10 tools for 2026, including DeskTrack, Asana, and Monday.com.

Successful intranets display intentional design choices that reflect their organizational identity. The 2026 Simpplr Employee Experience Excellence Award winners illustrate how distinctive design, thoughtful naming, and unexpected features turn standard digital workplaces into memorable brand experiences.

Nobody schedules a meeting to talk about the eleven seconds an app takes to load, or the four minutes someone spends digging through a cluttered desktop for a file they saved “somewhere obvious.” Those moments never make it into a retro or a performance review. They’re too small to complain about and too frequent to ignore. That’s why technology challenges that quietly reduce team productivity are so hard to catch.

Work from home has shifted from a temporary pandemic-era arrangement into a permanent fixture of the modern labor market, with millions of professionals now choosing remote or hybrid roles over traditional office work.

What if you could wrap up your weekly resource planning much faster and enjoy more of that well-deserved rest in the sunshine this summer? With the updates we’re releasing this July, it’s 100% possible! Use ELI’s new booking management capabilities to sort out your team’s bookings for this month and next, run instant project health audits with a single click, keep track of active time tracker straight from the project task list, and more.