Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Retainer vs. project-based work: how to improve profitability across both

Most agency owners and services leaders frame the retainer-vs.-project debate as an either/or choice. In my experience, that framing misses the point entirely. The question isn't which model is more profitable. It's whether you have the visibility to make either model profitable. I've watched the same pattern with our customers at Teamwork.com: firms chasing retainer revenue for stability, then discovering they were over-servicing clients because nobody tracked the hours against the fee.

45+ Employee Monitoring Software Features and Benefits

Are you struggling to keep up with the lightning-fast adoption of AI and remote work? Traditional data protection tools have a massive blind spot: the endpoint, where rogue applications and Shadow AI operate completely out of sight. In this post, we break down the essential features of modern employee monitoring software. You’ll gain valuable insights into what the features are and how they help.

Employee Wellness Statistics 2026. Trends, Insights, and What They Mean

According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025 report, most employees feel their company doesn’t truly care about their well-being. This finding sits next to another one that seems to flatly contradict it: 87% of organizations worldwide report having some form of formal wellness initiative. So most companies have a program. And most employees feel unsupported anyway.

WhatsApp vs iMessage - Which Messaging App Is Right for You

Both messaging apps are available for free use and provide voice calls, video calls, and instant messaging services. Both have billions of active daily users worldwide. Nevertheless, these two apps target completely different demographics. Choosing the wrong application to suit your needs may cause unnecessary complications rather than benefits.

10 AI prompts to ask Teamwork.com every monday morning

For COOs, CFOs, and Heads of Delivery, the start of the week is often a race to find the truth hidden in a dozen different reports. By connecting Teamwork.com to your LLM (Claude, ChatGPT) via our new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, you can query your business health in plain English. This isn't just about speed: it's about gaining a level of operational visibility that was previously impossible without a dedicated finance team.

Choosing the Right Team Chat App for Your Growing Business

Question. Have you ever sent a message to your team and then immediately thought, “Wait… did I send that in the right place?” You’re not alone. Communication at work is kind of a mess. Not because people are bad at it, but because there’s a lot of it. In fact, Grammarly found that every single worker surveyed, that’s 100% of employees, deals with miscommunication at least once a week. One in four deals with it multiple times a day.

The bottleneck keeps shifting: What AI is changing about how we build

Over the past few decades in the technology industry, some of the biggest constraints to building products have been about having enough engineers, time, or compute. For the first time, that era is ending. Tech teams are experiencing a revolution unlike anything they’ve seen before. The barriers to entry for building have all but disappeared. The constraint no longer comes from producing enough output, but from deciding what to build, and the restraint required to build something good.