Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

If you work in an office, company news lands in your inbox or Slack. You scroll through it with your morning coffee, skim what matters, ignore what doesn’t. But if you work in a warehouse, on a hospital floor, or in a manufacturing plant, staying informed takes more effort. By the time an announcement filters down through supervisors or gets posted on a bulletin board, it’s already old.

The old ways of intrusive monitoring have long gone with the introduction of GDPR. It sets strict standards for how employee data is collected, stored, and used. So, choosing a tracking software blindly can burn your business empire to the core. The good news is that some monitoring tools are just built differently, with ensuring compliance as the number one priority.

From the beginning of an employee's journey, we provide them with access to time tracking software. The solution gives us access to track employee activity, like how many mouse clicks there are, and how actively they are logged in. But one thing that really got me is, our employees were not able to deliver that productive outcome anymore. Even after having the most active time on their screen. Their creativity was missing, even though they were struggling to meet deadlines.

These days, companies everywhere are asking: how can I get more teams using AI? And what should I do besides just saying “use AI” or forcing everyone to take yet another training? At Atlassian, we’ve found that meaningful adoption comes when teams are inspired to experiment and see firsthand how AI can elevate their work. This was the guiding thought behind our AI Product Builders week.

As hybrid work becomes the norm, tracking workplace attendance has become increasingly complex. There are several important factors that influence the accuracy and significance of workplace attendance metrics, including employee satisfaction, work-life balance, and incidental costs. These elements play a critical role in understanding and improving employee retention and human capital ROI.