The past 18 months have necessitated a shift to working remotely, adjusting to more flexible hours, and mastering the Zoom mute button. As companies consider how best to approach the new normal in 2021, one idea that is making waves across the globe is the four-day working week. In our previous article, we looked at the pros and cons of the four-day week. If you’re considering a trial at your company, it’s important to be prepared beforehand to get the best out of the exercise.

Project portfolio management (PPM) is a means of strategically aligning project portfolios with business objectives. It makes it easier to identify the risk-reward per project or portfolio, forecast returns, and ultimately make smarter business decisions. In essence, portfolio management helps you diplomatically allocate and leverage resources to maximize benefits and outcomes. Sounds good on paper, but how does it affect project management, specifically?

Team chat software is a place where you can connect and communicate with your team members in a secure and dedicated professional environment. A lot of people refer to team chat software as a business communication tool, but it is much more than just this. Team chat software is a powerful invention that helps you connect with people from across different departments, countries and even continents.

Good customers are hard to find; keeping them is crucial. We are working in a much-changed, digital-first economy where it’s all too easy for people to click away if they don’t get what they need. They want their issues solved quickly—preferably on first contact—and they want to feel heard. But too often, customer service teams run up against barriers.

Workpuls COO Ryan Fyfe recently took to the air on The SaaS Podcast to talk about Workpuls’ growth and future plans.

Are your team members working too hard? Is this causing a decline in overall productivity? Learn more about toxic productivity and how it can be avoided.

Any successful business must begin with a clear understanding and strategic roadmap of its internal strengths, customers, competitive environment, and vision for evolving to compete in the future. Money is also vital to start, operate, and develop a firm. You will have an effective tool for attracting investors if you put forth the effort to create a comprehensive business plan that clearly states where you are, how you got there, and how you plan to proceed.

Scoro, the award-winning work management software for collaborative teams, is ramping up its partner channel to meet increased global demand. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in North America and the Baltics, Scoro’s software helps thousands of agencies, consultancies and professional service firms in 60+ countries work more efficiently. Australia is one of those countries that has seen strong growth during the pandemic and the subsequent shift to hybrid working.

Whether you want to track the billable hours spent on a project or analyze your team’s productivity, recording employee hours can be incredibly useful. However, using traditional time tracking methods like punch clocks and paper forms can be tedious and prone to human error. Instead, you can use automated timesheets to simplify the time tracking process and boost productivity.

Today, several insurance companies face challenges like strict regulations and economic instability, along with the COVID-19 impact. To remain competitive, they may consider insurance business process outsourcing. Insurance business process outsourcing is the contracting of certain business processes to an outsourcing company.