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Most companies in 2026 are already using AI somewhere in their hiring pipeline, their customer support queue, or their project management software. What fewer companies have figured out is how to use it well, in ways that actually improve working life rather than just adding surveillance overhead. This isn't a theoretical question. According to McKinsey's Superagency in the Workplace report, 92% of companies plan to increase their AI investments over the next three years.

Learn more about legal and effective employee screen activity tracking methods, top software tools, compliance rules, and productivity tips for 2026.

The learnings are based on our recent webinar, “Inside Reddit’s IT playbook for AI and scale”. Check out this session and other conversations with customers on-demand. When Reddit grew from fewer than 400 people before 2020 to roughly 4,000 globally distributed employees today, it wasn’t just their headcount that changed. The mandate for IT changed with it.

Recognition programs don’t lose relevance because companies stop caring. They become less effective when recognition happens in the wrong place, at the wrong time, or outside the flow of day‑to‑day work. A shout‑out buried in a Slack channel or an annual award that soon fades can turn recognition into background noise. In a recent webinar, three companies shared how they avoided those pitfalls and made recognition more relevant and lasting.

VPNs aren’t dying—they’re doubling. According to TechRadar, analysts forecast the business-VPN market to jump from $5.7 billion in 2024 to more than $10 billion by 2033, even as Zero Trust grabs headlines. Why the surge? Deep packet inspection (DPI) still slams the door on conventional VPN traffic, stranding remote workers behind hotel Wi-Fi, corporate firewalls, and national censorship. Teams need tunnels that blend in, not stand out.

If you’ve ever sat in a planning meeting feeling like you’re playing a high-stakes game of Tetris with your team’s schedules, you know the frustration of "making it work." Many organizations reach a size where spreadsheets fail, but they find themselves at a crossroads: do they adopt a massive, rigid ERP system designed for factories, or do they look for a solution built for people? This is where Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) software comes in.

Before I joined Teamwork.com, I spent years pulling together reports that took hours to build and minutes to forget. Stitching data from three or four tools into a slide deck every Monday, only to have a client ask a question the report didn't cover. Sound familiar? That cycle is exactly what AI reporting is built to break.