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Google Sheets Timesheet: Templates, Pros, Cons, Alternatives (2021)

Tracking the number of hours your employees work is essential to measure their productivity and overtime hours. It also comes in handy when you have to pay employees based on billable hours. But how do you track employee hours? One way is to use a Google Sheets timesheet to record employee work hours manually. In this article, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of using a Google Sheets timesheet and help you select a good timesheet template.

Offshoring to India in 2021: Top Trends, Companies, Pros, Cons

India has become one of the most sought-after offshoring destinations in the world, even outranking some countries in Latin America and Eastern Europe. For some companies, offshoring to India is a strategic necessity for cost savings. For others, it is a ticket to expand their overseas operations. In this article, we will explore why offshoring to India is increasingly popular and highlight five major companies engaged in the practice.

Experience inflation and 'the need for speed'

A few months ago it was time for the periodic service of my car. Now I have to say that my car could use a ride through the car wash. A few days before the scheduled servicing, I actually wanted to wash it. Then I thought back to the previous two times my car had received service. Each time I got it back cleaned and washed. “Nice! they’ll wash it at the garage anyway. ” I thought and I decided to skip the car wash. A few days later I was at the garage to pick up my car.

Media relations for startups: Going beyond just press coverage

Think about this question—what is media relations? If you said, “Getting featured in the press,” you’ve only done half the job. Today, media relations isn’t just a one-time activity to attract investors, or get a customer’s attention. It ties in with your brand identity as much as marketing does. It matters where you are seen, when you are seen, how you are seen, and with whom you are seen.

Simpplr's Blagoja Golubovski Named a 2021 Top 25 Software Product Executive

The Software Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Software Product Executives of 2021, which includes Simpplr’s Blagoja Golubovski, VP of Product Management. Each nominee on this list is the driving force for software innovation, improved user experience, and the genesis of company revenue growth and continuity. Blagoja was recognized for leading product management and UX at Simpplr, driving and building beautiful products to solve for customer’s pain points.

Monitoring Cloud Environments at Scale with Prometheus and Thanos

In Mattermost, our monitoring solution is continuously evolving to meet our scaling infrastructure needs. Our previous architecture used Prometheus federation and was perfect for our small/medium infrastructure size, but was not able to scale in the way we needed. This post will explain how we used Thanos and the Prometheus operator to scale our monitoring infrastructure and meet our long-term storage needs.

Why Employees Are Disengaged and What You Can Do About It

Gallup, the analytics and consulting firm, started measuring employee engagement in 2000. They published that employee engagement was at an all-time high of 34% in 2018. Although that is good news, we are far from finished when it comes to creating companies that are exciting and fulfilling places to work at (whether virtual or in-person). Gallup published a separate article exploring the reasons behind why the majority of U.S. employees are not engaged despite the gains.