The daily bombardment of alerts dinging, beeping, and ringing from all those applications we use is enough to drive someone completely crazy. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, we allow ourselves to be interrupted by Slack in a way we wouldn’t from any other platform. Even though it seems completely counterintuitive, and despite the sheer amount of daily notifications (because we still can get a bunch of notifications from Slack alone), we love and use Slack—a lot.

Editor’s note: Tech decisions can set the tone for how employees experience belonging, especially in distributed workforces. Successful leaders often cultivate company culture through digital workplace experiences. CIOs enjoy an outsized role influencing company culture, even before employees or customers are onboarded. “I hold the keys to the experience that every employee has,” said Colleen Berube, CIO and SVP Operations at Zendesk.

Tech pioneers in the food industry share their experiences of Slack as the collaboration engine of their digital HQs.

At its core, any B2B business’s goal is to provide value to its clients. Fortunately, the product or service being sold isn’t the only way for a company to demonstrate or provide value. There are countless opportunities for B2B sellers to act less like a supplier, and more like a partner before, during, and after the sale. That is why we will review the B2B customer journey and how businesses can optimize using proven frameworks and analytics from their operations.

The pandemic saw a massive shift in the way teams work together. With remote work becoming the new normal, secure collaboration tools became crucial in helping teams collaborate seamlessly despite being spread across different cities or even different continents. But why does the word "secure" hold the utmost importance here? While remote work offers the flexibility of working from anywhere and using any device, it can pose a great threat to an organization's data.

Many organizations have moved to hybrid work – this means employees are establishing a new method of collaborating and communicating. Virtual teams undertake most of their work online rather than coming into the office and meeting with their colleagues in person. Let’s look at what makes a strong framework for virtual team members to collaborate and communicate.

The notion that we can return to the office as it once was—is flawed. As people question whether the office is a thing of the past, we must consider what the office of the future could look like. To do that, we must first acknowledge the flaws and gaps that existed in the workplace prior to the pandemic. Work-related stress and burnout were at an all-time high. Density of space was at capacity. Daily commuting was polluting the planet and draining our energy.

Metrics are critical in order to gauge the performance of both support teams and the technology solutions behind them in any project. In our customer case studies, we frequently talk about milestones such as our customers reaching deflection rates of X%, yet what do these terms really mean? As you progress with your conversational AI journey, which key customer experience metrics can you see improve with AI?

Editor’s note: Top-down initiatives can set the tone for how employees experience diversity and belonging, especially in distributed workforces. Successful leaders often cultivate inclusivity through digital workplace experiences. While remote work offers an opportunity to make the workplace more diverse, equitable and inclusive, there are also significant hurdles to overcome to ensure no one is left behind.

It’s very easy to affirm that trust and communication are essential in any team, but is there a magic formula behind it? After all, as humans, we are constantly trying to keep ourselves safe. Therefore, building trust can be especially difficult to maintain in a remote team. In a remote team, you can’t just pop into someone’s office to ask them a question – you have to rely on tools like email, chat, and video conferencing to communicate with your colleagues and employees.