As a founder or leader at a small business, growth is incredibly exciting — it means the thing you’re building is working, gaining steam, and growing market share. But growth can be painfully complicated, too. You’ll inevitably reach a point where there’s more to do than you or your current team can get done — but is there enough work to justify hiring a new employee? In this quick guide, we’ll show you how to decide when it’s time to hire.
Knowing exactly when to hire project managers (whether your first one or another to join a growing team) is crucial but tricky. Wait too long, and chaos intensifies — cutting into productivity and profits. Yet, hiring too early can be a resource drain that could threaten profitability differently, especially for startups and small businesses. Businesses that have never had a formal project manager might have the toughest time with this decision.
We all have journeys in life. Rarely do these plans go as expected. Some people fight the direction, believing that the only goals for their life and career are those precisely mapped out with extreme detail. When life throws them a jolt, it can be disconcerting. Some people fall apart. Other people like to take the path that comes to them. People like Andréa Maria Cecil Topper, Director of Internal Communications at Guardant Health,
It is a testament to the tech and communications industry that our leaders are coming from non-obvious fields. Many of our best and brightest are pivoting their careers into internal comms and communications, bringing an abundance of experience and vast knowledge to better their companies and employees. One of the standouts is Jill Stracko, Director of Global Executive and Internal Comms at Uber.
We’re excited to share our new Spring ‘22 release, Hotaka. This release helps further employee engagement and personalization with a range of new enhancements. Here is a quick overview of this release: With this release, we also previewed some future capabilities that are entering an early adopter phase.
Admittedly, it’s been a minute since I’ve dusted off my crystal ball – closer to the length of a global pandemic. I made some predictions about the future of CX back in 2018, and certainly a lot has changed since then. During the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from futurist Roy Amara: “We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
For business owners, and those in charge of HR, accurate time tracking is crucial for safety, ensuring fair pay, and keeping costs down. But dealing with lost, ripped, crumpled and coffee-stained paper timesheets is not only time consuming, but stressful too. That is why many turn to ClockShark, a mobile app with a GPS function that automatically tracks time and completes employee timesheets. However, ClockShark is not the only time tracking mobile app on the market.
Two of the most critical questions every employer’s faces are: How to make employees more productive without micromanaging or continually offering incentives? Why does the team struggle to meet deadlines? It’s aggravating when your team is perpetually behind schedule, and they never seem to catch up, no matter what you do.
We are all moving towards a digital workplace - or a hybrid work scenario. Whatever be the case, you can expect end-users to call and complain about a poor WiFi experience. That's because network monitoring needs to be done from their standpoint, not from the enterprise end. And without the correct WiFi observability data, it's challenging to narrow down the root cause of the problem affecting remote employees. And those problems - poor WiFi performance leading to poor digital experience - can be pervasive and persistent.
