Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

This November, we held our annual conference, Distributed ’22, where we shared solutions for collaborating, creating, and innovating in an increasingly digitized and distributed world of work. We also announced some pretty exciting product updates — including Talktrack, Interactive Presentation Mode, and integrations for YouTube, Looker, and Confluence — which will create even better spaces for teams to collaborate and enable new ways of working.

As this year winds down, you may be eager to begin or continue planning for the next one. It’s an exciting time that’s filled with brainstorming, bold ideas, and big dreams as you and your team enthusiastically identify all of the possibilities for the coming year. But you also know that you need to balance all of that ambitious fantasizing with some intention, strategy, and organization.

Well, to be honest, being busy is not quite the same as being productive, and any seasoned programmer is going to tell you this. You might be active at times, however, it does not always imply that you are being productive. Moreover, there are chances that you might be performing repetitive tasks that might be automated, leading you to become less effective. At the most basic level, productivity refers to the ability to do activities quickly and effectively.

Tracking employee time in Excel can help you keep a finger on the pulse of workforce productivity. This guide will show you how to do it!

The workplace looks different these days and so does the employee experience. Since 2019, we’ve seen remote work grow. In fact, between 2019 and 2021 the number of remote workers tripled. With workers at home, in the office, and on the road companies need to have targeted communication options that accommodate these diverse engagement needs. Technology is supposed to enhance communications, but sometimes it becomes its own monster.

The future of selling is here, with tools that drive sales teams’ speed and efficiency.

The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, might sound like a contradiction in terms. The agile methodology for software development is designed to help companies operate nimbly — without being slowed down by processes or constrained by a rigid plan — so that they can deliver value to customers more quickly and efficiently. But what happens when a small, agile company grows into a large enterprise?