An internal hackathon is an effective way to engage your employees in short-term collaborative events. It spurs innovation, increases employee engagement, explores new feature possibilities, imparts corporate culture, and builds teamwork and collaboration skills. By organizing internal hackathons in your company, your employees can challenge and compete to solve internal or customer problems—which can lead to real-life features in your product.

Have you ever wished to measure your team's sentiments on a topic with a live poll? There is a free Rocket.Chat app for that! As many of you discovered already, you can easily use our poll app to perform basic polls. But most of you found the existing poll app rather limiting. We heard you! We’ve launched a new app - the Poll Plus app that can do much more than the old app on Rocket.Chat.

Remote employees are generally more productive and pleased with their careers, according to studies, and remote companies can absolutely be tenable and sustainable long-term. Employing remote employees who utilize their home offices to conduct their daily activities saves companies money on office supplies, space, and computers.

As it is common for the online community to use the internet to land in their next job, a whole new opportunity comes along. It is your perfect chance to develop and grow your business that connects the employers and the employees. How to Create an Online Job Board? This question strikes our minds, but we often fail to answer them correctly. This piece aims to make you understand the setup of the Job Board Website successfully.

As we head into a new year, technical organizations are more likely than ever to have distributed workforces. While over half of the developers we surveyed for our Guide to Developer Productivity said remote work has helped them be more productive, they still stated that team distribution is a significant blocker to developer collaboration.

As modern applications have become increasingly feature-rich and performant, user expectations are at an all-time high. Failure to communicate key information or displaying out-of-date information frustrates users and causes a loss of trust. Think about the last time you ordered something online: if you didn’t receive your order confirmation within seconds, you probably began to worry that something went wrong. Users require product transparency for consistent use.

I am quite sure after learning the terms On-Premise vs Cloud you must be reinvigorating about the knowledge you have, perhaps some of you have minimum knowledge about them which is likely enough to be involved in the very start of the conversation. If you are thinking IT companies should be worried about this topic and you ain’t since your domain differs, let me illuminate the fact that by this end of the blog you will realize both on-premise and cloud apply to every domain.

Collaboration is essential to business success in the 21st century. However, there are very few good tools on the market that can help you manage team collaboration. With the rise of remote teams and freelance workers, business collaboration apps have become a necessity. Creating new ways for people to get their work done regardless of location is a profitable and worthwhile venture.

Virtual teams and flexible work hours have been the saving grace in the face of covid-19 and its impact on how we function as a society. Richard Branson’s quote from 2013 comes to mind where he quipped that the office would become a thing of the past. Well, it surely has, at least for the time being. The IT and Ecommerce industries have the luxury of possessing the required tools to embrace a digital working environment.

We are closing 2021 with some new features and improvements in Rocket.Chat. Let's see what Rocket.Chat 4.3.0 brings. 🚀 Please visit the official release notes for the whole list of improvements and bug fixes.