Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

89% of executives say AI has increased speed. Only 6% can point to org-wide ROI. IDC’s Wayne Kurtzman and Atlassian’s Liz Fosslien unpack what’s missing – and where CIOs should start. Everyone on your team is faster. So why isn’t your organization moving further?

Manual onboarding is a mess waiting to happen. Documents slip through the cracks, tasks get missed, accounts aren’t ready on day one and the result is a disjointed experience that frustrates HR and underwhelms your new hires. It’s not just inefficient; it’s a bad first impression. Automation changes that. With the right tools, you can turn a scattered process into a smooth, repeatable system that’s faster, more reliable, and easier to scale.

Communication is the process of exchanging information, ideas, thoughts, or feelings between individuals or groups in a way that creates shared understanding. It happens through speaking, writing, body language, visual elements, and even silence, making it one of the most fundamental parts of human interaction.

Virtual meeting etiquette is the list of the professional norms and behavioral practices which are helpful to communicate professionally and work in collaboration during virtual meetings. It covers aspects like being on time, being a good listener, using a camera, microphone properly, communicating clearly and much more. Observance of all these rules provides the structure to the discussion and allows everybody to participate.

Timekeeping software automatically records employee clock-in/out times, calculates hours and overtime, and syncs with payroll for accurate, compliant pay runs.

When a tool can do in seconds what used to take hours, it’s natural to wonder if there will be any work left for humans. But new research from Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab suggests the opposite: Rather than shrinking an employee’s remit, AI appears to be expanding both the breadth of what employees take on and the depth at which they operate.

Ever feel like your team is busy, but profitability is still inconsistent? This is a very common challenge for many IT service teams: they work at full capacity, yet the stronger margins don’t always follow. In service businesses, utilization plays a very important role in profitability.

Clear expectations and a sense of mission make work meaningful—yet data shows both are harder to achieve than it seems. Only 46% of employees feel clear about what’s expected of them at work, according to a 2025 Gallup poll. Meanwhile, only 31% of managers feel engaged. Asana Goals was built to close that gap by giving teams a structured way to connect daily work to the results that matter. Asana Goals gives every team a single place to define what success looks like.

Teams are often busy, but that doesn’t always mean work is moving forward. Delays caused by unclear priorities, repeated approvals, manual status updates, and scattered communication can slow even the best projects. Lean project management helps teams deliver more value by removing the work that doesn’t contribute to the final outcome. Instead of asking people to work faster, it focuses on improving workflow, reducing waste, and making project delivery more predictable.