Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

July 2024

Top 10 Best Time Tracking Software for Freelancers

Looking for the best time tracking software for freelancers? Freelancers and freelancing is yet another preference in today’s modern working environment. Thanks to the many advantages it provides to employees and organizations including cost savings, flexible work schedules, and others, many organizations are opting for more and more freelance work. However, there are also many challenges when it comes to management in freelancing. This is for both freelancers and their employers.

How to implement a governance framework that propels innovation

In today’s fast-paced business environment, innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition. But focusing solely on acceleration and growth isn’t the solution: As you add staff, partners, and tools, you may be taking on additional security and compliance risks, creating bottlenecks in your processes ultimately hindering your own path to success.

13 Essential Employee Productivity Metrics to Track

Understanding and tracking employee productivity metrics is a powerful tool for gauging how effectively a team or individual contributes to an organization’s goals. By regularly monitoring these metrics, businesses can stay informed about their workforce’s performance and identify areas for improvement. There are various metrics for different roles, but some common ones include output volume, error rates, and task completion times.

Unveiling the Mystery: A Comprehensive Guide to VPNs

We rely on the internet daily. It keeps us in touch and entertained. Yet, risks exist—we might lose privacy or face security issues. That's where virtual private networks, or VPNs, can help. But what is a VPN, and how can it help you? This simple handbook plunges into the pool of VPNs. It breaks down how they work, their pros, and when you might need them. Tech experts and everyday web surfers alike, this guide prepares you. It helps you figure out if a VPN is the right online security tool for you.

Introducing the Craft.io Progress Dashboard

At Craft.io, our mission has always been to give product teams and leaders the tools they need to make the best-informed decisions for their products’ success. And as a product professional yourself, you know that one of the most valuable tools available to any product team is visibility. That’s why, for example, we created Craft.io’s capacity planning and product portfolio management tools.

What Is Conflict Management? (And Why Should You Care in Customer Service?)

Customer conflict is unavoidable. For many reasons, conflicts with customers will happen. And they may happen quite frequently. So you need to learn how to manage them. In this article, we’ll talk about conflict management with customers—what it is, which tactics you can use, and how to get better at it.

Disney's Slack breach tells an important story

News of Disney’s alleged Slack breach shows what can happen when organisations trust centralised communications platforms that don’t use end-to-end encryption; if an attacker gets inside, they have access to everything. By contrast, in an end-to-end encrypted system, data is instead only accessible by specific cryptographically identified users and their devices. Hopefully the master storyteller can help organisations learn that relying on popular but insecure platforms is a catastrophic risk.

Get better team insights with Time Doctor's improved email notifications

As we strive to be more productive at work, being focused on what is actually important may make all the difference. At Time Doctor, we are thrilled to announce significant updates to our Email Notifications feature. These changes empower both managers and teams by giving deeper insights and increased efficiency in task and project management, by tailoring what you receive in your inbox to focus sharply on the information you need.

How to create an editorial calendar for intranet content: Step-by-step guide + free editorial calendar template

Ready to make managing internal comms more efficient? To reduce the time you spend chasing deadlines, tracking content types, and keeping stakeholders informed and aligned? To streamline your workflow — from strategic content planning through multichannel publication? Learn how to create an editorial calendar. You’ll be glad you did.

22 Best Productivity Techniques To Level-Up At Work

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” Paul J. Meyer, the author, rightly said this. Productivity techniques are ways to improvise and revive your professional creativity and ingeniousness. In the world of work, where the morning starts with Slack or Skype and the day ends with a Zoom call, getting distracted is common.