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You’re trying to focus on coding, but office chatter keeps disturbing you. You want to reach your teammates, but they don’t respond to their emails. You’re trying to find a piece of information related to your current project, but you don’t know where to start. Do these scenarios sound familiar? We hope not. Developers’ tasks are complex as is. But sometimes, productivity issues can add to their woe.
Slack is one of the most popular instant messaging tools for organizations of all sizes. Due to its easy interface and features, many clinics and healthcare establishments prefer to use Slack for their everyday communication. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a law that guides how to protect sensitive PHI (patient health information).
Do you know that mental health memes not only make us laugh but also help us feel less stressed? Technology has made it easy to generate fun-filled relatable mental breakdown memes, emotional memes that can be shared with coworkers, clients, and others. This helps reduce stress in various ways, regardless of the industry. Let me familiarise you with mental health before you start thinking about it.
Distance learning and digital education have opened up many opportunities for students worldwide, allowing them to learn flexibly and conveniently. With course materials and lectures made available online, students can learn on their own terms. By leveraging online tools and resources, teachers can provide a personalized learning experience for students' needs and learning styles. Therefore, effective teacher-student communication is key to ensuring the success of digital education.
Email localization is a strategy to effectively raise brand recognition, increase subscribers, and boost sales. It translates email marketing campaigns into clients' local languages and cultural contexts, but encompasses much more than just translating message headers and subject lines. International email marketing isn’t as complicated as it seems.
In 2020, companies were pushed to adapt to an unprecedented global pandemic. They shifted rapidly from an office-based workforce to a remote one. And with that went the protection of having employees connected through on-premise secure servers, which called for a remote work cyber security infrastructure to be installed. Employees had to configure the official devices through their home networks, and the IT department had to work at scale for remote work cyber security.
Employee burnout is a type of workplace stress – but not necessarily caused simply by an over-demanding workload. The person suffering from employee burnout probably doesn’t realize at first that it is happening to them. They say, for example, that a frog could boil to death without feeling any discomfort – as it is a cold-blooded creature that adapts to the temperature of its environment. In a similar way, employee burnout can ‘creep up’ on a person.
Organizations in FinTech are increasingly met with customer communication challenges due to their rapid growth. What are these challenges, and more importantly, how can you solve them? We’ve asked an expert: FinTech consultant Ellen Cibula. Financial technology, or "FinTech," is a blanket term to describe any company that provides financial services using software and modern technology. The industry has exploded in recent years as more people opt for digital-only banking options.
