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Guide to Employee Compensation and Benefit Strategies

As organizations strive to attract, motivate, and retain their workforce in an increasingly competitive labor market, the importance of developing effective compensation systems is paramount. To bring you up to speed, let’s go over everything you need to know about crafting a beneficial compensation strategy that aligns with your company's goals while promoting employee satisfaction.

Preparing our customers for a new era of secure communication

For anyone new around here, we enable our customers to have true self-sovereignty over their communications through a combination of Element Server Suite (ESS) and our Element app. ESS allows our customers to own their communication platform and deploy powerful administrative tooling through our paid subscriptions. Customers host their own server(s) and customise it to suit their business needs.

Mattermost Pro Tips: Using emojis to improve team collaboration

When technical and operational teams work together in the same physical location, it’s easy for employees to communicate and understand each other because things like body language, facial expressions, tone, and enunciation provide additional context to the words that are being said. Unfortunately, such context clues don’t inherently exist in text-based communication; it’s not uncommon for two different team members to read the same sentence and take away different meanings.

10 Discord alternatives for effective communication

Among numerous communication tools, Discord has established itself as a go-to platform for many communities — especially for gamers and content creators. But as we step into an era where data security holds an insurmountable weightage, the 'one-size-fits-all' approach of Discord doesn’t work. In fact, it emerges as a pressing concern for senior leaders in IT Infrastructure, security, and enterprise governance spheres.

Top 7 Push Notification APIs

Most people who interact regularly with smartphones and tablets are familiar with what a push notification is. They want their calendar application to post an alert to their mobile or desktop interface, for example, whether or not they have the app open or their screen locked. If they want to change when, how, or if they receive notifications at all, they simply adjust those in the application settings. For app developers, push notifications are a great way to keep users engaged with a product.

Building Strong Bonds Remotely: Fun Ways to Connect a Remote Team

In today's business world, more and more companies are having their employees work remotely. This means people can be flexible with their work, which is good, but it also brings some problems. One big challenge is ensuring that teams of workers far away from each other can still work well together and get along. In this article, we will look at ways to help teams bond and work together nicely, even when working from different places.

10 best open source live chat solutions to engage your customers

Yes, you know all about live chat and its advantages. But what makes open source live chat so different and how can it help you serve your customers better? Today, live chat has become a staple in customer service. Customers can send their inquiries via a simple chat widget on a website and can get a swift response from the team. However, as every business is unique, it may require a custom live chat for their needs.

Element X preview is now on Android too!

Psst… don’t tell anyone, but: Android development on Element X has now caught up with iOS and we’ve released an early edition of Element X in the Google Play Store. Since we published our first release of Element X for iOS on the App Store in July, we’ve been swamped with Android users asking how to get involved too; and so now we’re officially making Element X goodness available on both platforms.