Internal support teams receive an average of 492 tickets per month (Zendesk). 69% of internal support tickets are resolved in one touch (Zendesk). It takes an average of 24.2 hours to provide a first response to an internal support ticket (Zendesk). Given that 69% of internal support tickets are solved in a single communication, a first response time of 24 hours seems high. It suggests that internal help desk teams may be too busy to respond to queries quickly.

Statistics show 88% of HR teams consider employee engagement a strategic priority for their organization. Employee engagement is a workplace method designed to improve an employee’s outlook on the company and invest emotional interest in the organizational goals. If the right employee engagement methods are used, employees will be ready to push their limits and work towards the organizational goals, driven by a sense of personal interest in their work.

Did you know that 50-60% of today’s organizations still rely on manual Identity Access Management (IAM)? While password management technologies like LastPass enable administrators to provision and monitor users across IAM applications, it requires admins to manually change these factors for each individual within the organization. This system can lead to lapses in access restriction and ultimately large losses in time, money, and security.

Artificial intelligence software has gone a long way in recent years, from being an ultramodern potential to a day-to-day reality. A lot of organizations nowadays are using some AI solutions while others are on the trial stage of adopting. There are various types of artificial intelligence software, and AI is being applied in various technologies, particularly in the help desk industry. According to experts from Business Insider, 80% of businesses will want chatbots by 2020.

We are happy to announce that we are selected as one of the 20 most promising conversational platforms by CIOReview. For the uninitiated, CIO Review is a popular technology print magazine containing the latest tech news, articles, and insights from various industries. CIO Review lists articles from top CIO’s, CTO’s and CEO’s of organizations, globally. CIO Review has also selected Workativ as Company of the Year and provides more details in their interview article.

Is your business using Okta for Identity and Access Management? Then you might know how manually provisioning and deprovisioning users can be cumbersome for your IT team. Every new hire or company exit requires timely modifications to a user’s account. As a result, IT spend inordinate amounts of time on these processes and are distracted from other priorities, and your end-users suffer delays in productivity if their accounts aren’t configured correctly.

Research shows that companies that excel at customer experience have 1.5 times more engaged employees than companies with a record of poor customer experience. It’s also clear that companies who invest in employee experience can see a higher ROI than those who don’t. So what should you exactly do to keep your employees happy? You can start by automating some of your IT processes so that employees can self-serve themselves.

In the rush to invest in tools that provide more insights about the customer journey and help provide better customer experience, businesses may have overlooked another powerful tool for improving the customer experience—the employee experience also referred to as EX. Companies that actively work to engage their employees outperform their competitors by 147%.

If you’re using JumpCloud as your business’ directory-as-a-service (DaaS) solution to authenticate, authorize, and manage users, then it’s high time you made the whole process effortless for your employees. Why? Because many a time, businesses tend to invest more on the technologies that improve the customer experience and neglect to do the same for their employees.

Workativ’s new features are an all-round enhancement to dialogs, automations, and a big update for Slack and Teams. Take a look at the new features and enhancements this month, below.