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Expert guide on choosing the best team chat app for your business in 2024

Are you looking for a team chat app for your business? Perhaps your tools aren’t scaling well as your organization grows, or you’re early in your journey and want tools that will grow with you. Maybe members of your remote or global team are frustrated with your current communication software. Team chat is often the virtual office for your organization, where employees spend a significant portion of their working hours.

6 Effective Ways To Improve Work Performance

Performance at work is crucial for companies to assess personnel productivity and monitor data on hard and soft skills, leadership qualities, and employees’ attitudes. Such analysis is helpful for both managers and the entire team. Here’s why: Indicators such as task complexity, resource expenditure, and deadlines are considered when assessing labor efficiency. For example, employees cope well with their job duties but do everything late and interrogate colleagues.

How to Create a Messaging Application

Do you want to build a messaging app but are unsure where to start? Despite the intense competition, the demand for innovative messaging solutions continues to grow. Successful apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal have set high standards, and today’s users seek both ease of use and advanced privacy features. In this guide, we’ll walk through each step to create a messaging app that delivers secure, real-time communication and a seamless user experience.

Why Supporting Employee Wellbeing is Key to a Thriving Remote Workforce

There are 3 billion working people globally, with 40 percent expressing happiness in their jobs, which indicates that roughly 1.8 billion individuals are not feeling fulfilled at work, and this discontent can create ripples that affect not only those employees but also the organizations they represent. Happiness at work is a genuine performance booster, and organizations with high levels of employee happiness report three times the revenue growth compared to their less-content counterparts.

We've Tried Skype vs Google Meet and Chat (Our Team's Feedback)

Microsoft and Google have been battling for years to own the future of tech. Today, I’m comparing two of their popular tools – Skype and what was once Google Hangouts. (Now it’s split into Google Chat for messaging and Google Meet for video calls.) Thanks to building Chanty – a simple team chat, our team had to perform an in-depth analysis of our competitors.

Our Take on RingCentral vs Slack: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Can you imagine a working environment without team communication tools? Nowadays, that’s almost impossible. Once you start using them, there is no need to keep in touch with colleagues via email. Team chat applications bring the whole team together in one place, organizing the working process and keeping conversations flowing. However, with so many tools hit the market, it can be tough to find the best one for you.

Deep dive into Element X!

The Matrix Conference saw the official launch of Element X! That means Element X is now the mobile app that almost all Element users should be using for messaging; both in the workplace and for personal use. Some large customers that self-host are still using the classic mobile Element apps. Once those customers have migrated, Element X will simply become ‘Element’ and the classic mobile apps will be retired.