Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

How to Prioritize Feature Requests from Customers: A Guide for Product Teams

Every product team feels it eventually. The backlog grows. Sales forwards another customer email. An executive champions a feature because one big account asked for it. And suddenly, the roadmap is being driven by whoever spoke loudest or most recently rather than by what will actually move the product forward. Managing feature requests without a structured process means your team spends time building things that feel urgent but aren’t strategic.

What a Kanban Board Needs to Actually Be Useful for a Distributed Team

A kanban board is easy to set up and easy to ignore. Cards move from column to column right up until the project gets busy - and then the board stops reflecting reality, because updating it became one more task competing for attention. For distributed teams especially, a board that isn't trustworthy is worse than no board at all: people stop checking it.

10 Ways to Keep Yourself Safe from Layoffs

Layoffs have become a reality across many industries, affecting companies of all sizes. Economic uncertainty, artificial intelligence, automation, shifting business priorities, and global competition are changing how organizations hire, retain, and manage talent. While no employee can completely eliminate the risk of being laid off, there are practical steps you can take to become more valuable, adaptable, and prepared for change.

August 2026 Feature Releases: Redesigned Timesheet Approvals, Payroll & Developer API | Apploye

Here are the key features we shipped in August for Apploye! In this update, we’re introducing a completely rebuilt Timesheet Approval workflow with smart signals, a streamlined Payroll redesign, our new Public API & MCP Server for AI workflows, expanded report export customization, and email notifications for time off. Timestamps: Introduction Timesheet Approval Redesign & Smart Signals Redesigned Payroll Ledger & Summary Public API & MCP Server Integration Customized Report Export Options Time Off Email Notifications.

The leadership advantage AI can't automate: Attention

As AI accelerates work, leaders need to be more deliberate about what technology takes off people’s minds and where human attention can create the most value. AI promises to help organisations move faster. But at two Asana executive dinners held in Sydney and Melbourne in August, a different leadership question emerged: what should we choose not to accelerate? The challenge is not finding more hours in the day, but creating better conditions for the hours people already spend.

Unified Collaboration Platforms: 5 Tools That Bring Work Together

Think about everything a smartphone quietly replaced. The camera you used to pack for trips. The alarm clock on your bedside table. The paper map folded somewhere in the car. A music player, a calculator, a GPS unit, and a drawer full of chargers with no obvious owner. None of those things became useless. We just stopped needing each one separately when one device could handle most of the same jobs.

7 Effective Tools for Better Work Coordination in 2026

Nobody puts “coordination” on a job title, and yet almost everyone ends up doing it. Work coordination is the virtuous orchestration of internal and external processes – the constant, low-level hum of making sure the right task reaches the right person at the right time, that a decision made in one channel doesn’t get lost before it reaches the people who need to act on it, that a client-facing deadline and an internal review cycle actually meet in the middle instead of colliding.