Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

May 2024

Manish Kapur: Optimize these 4 areas to grow your agency

Forget about revenue for a moment. Consider how much more profitable your agency would be if you optimized your team’s time and improved utilization. If you could reduce hiring costs by keeping staff for longer. If you understood the leaky buckets in your outgoings and reduced losses like over-servicing through improved best practice. Manish Kapur, who has over 25 years of experience in creative ops, explains how he streamlines agency operations and boost profit within agencies of all sizes.

HR and Payroll Management Solutions | Top 10 Picks

Manually managing payrolls and HR is old-fashioned. An easy way to go for is to use an automatic, and fully integrated HR and payroll management solution. Here are the top ten HR and Payroll Management Solutions to manage payroll for your small business: To avoid costly mistakes and legal issues, it’s essential for businesses to understand the rules and responsibilities of handling employee pay. Without knowing these, they could face fines, lawsuits, or harm their reputation.

Free timesheet templates in Excel, PDF, Word formats (weekly, monthly, bi-weekly)

If there’s one thing that both employees and employers agree with, it’s that time tracking is an extremely tedious process. To make the process easier, download the three free employee timesheet templates in MS excel, Google Sheets, MS Word or PDF formats given in this article. You can also use an automated time tracking tool instead of filling out spreadsheets or PDFs manually.

Keep Your Projects On-Track & In-budget With Project-Based Timesheets

Perfect project management is a detailed balancing task where staying within schedule and budget becomes crucial. Delayed delivery dates and budget overruns can easily throw a wrench into even the most carefully planned initiatives. The result will be lowered productivity and strained client relationships. This is where project-based timesheets come to the rescue.

When Your Agency Has TOO MUCH New Business w/ Joe Sullivan

Many agencies--just like yours--are echoing this common refrain: Either it’s feast or famine right now. In today's episode, Joe Sullivan shares how his agency, Gorilla 76, is experiencing a "feast" season where demand is exceeding supply. They’re having to tell clients they can’t start working with them for several months–even if they’re ready to sign & start today. It’s a good problem to have, but one that they’ve still got to solve. An aim for what Joe refers to as “managed growth.”

Attendance Tracking Software: A Complete Guide

Are you looking to optimize attendance monitoring via attendance tracking software? Then, look no further. Here, you will find the most comprehensive and complete guide to tracking attendance using dedicated software. Using a good attendance tracker for employees will ensure that there are no manual entry errors or other issues. We will cover all of this and more in today’s post.

How Slack protects your data when using machine learning and AI

We recently heard from some in the Slack community that our published privacy principles weren’t clear enough and could create misunderstandings about how we use customer data in Slack. We value the feedback, and as we looked at the language on our website, we realised that they were right. We could have done a better job of explaining our approach, especially regarding the differences in how data is used for traditional machine learning (ML) models and in generative AI.

Managing Incidents in Jira | The Developer's Edge | Atlassian

Explore how developers can manage incidents in Jira Software using the new incidents tab. The incidents tab pulls relevant incidents from Jira Service Management and other third-party tools, into Jira Software so developers can focus on incidents impacting software components they’re responsible for in the same tool where their development backlog lives. For more about Incidents in Jira check out these articles.

Write better AI prompts: A 4-sentence framework

For non-developers, AI can seem like a black box. The concept of AI prompting sends a chill down our spines, especially when we’re bombarded with complicated examples and techniques. Multi-agent prompting? Prompt chaining? ReAct prompting? Sounds too much like the CompSci 101 course we failed in college. But according to Ethan DeWaal, Asana’s AI Program Manager, AI prompting doesn’t have to be complicated.

Mastering Overtime Management: Strategies, Best Practices, and FLSA Compliance

Currently, all US businesses must track the time of all non-exempt employees and keep those records for 2 years to comply with FLSA, thus avoiding unexpected and costly wage and hour lawsuits. In terms of the FLSA, these are some of the most important things every employer and employee should know about complying with the DOL’s FLSA timekeeping.

New in Basecamp: Easier Edits

We're making Basecamp better! It's now easier to make quick edits. Before, editing titles or renaming tools in a Basecamp project took multiple steps, taking you to a different page, and then back again. We made it easier! Now, you can rename projects, tools, documents, messages and more without ever leaving the page. Simply click and make your changes.

How to Be Productive During The Workday

Are you struggling to find ways to be productive? You’re not alone. Productivity is something that most people struggle with at some point or another. But don’t worry – you can do several activities and strategies to be more productive in your day-to-day life. This guide will get you more out of your day by setting achievable goals, organizing your time and workspace, and using productivity tools and techniques. Let’s get started!