This month we’re thrilled to share several powerful updates that will amplify your planning, collaboration, and user experience. An enhanced Planner app, smarter Azure DevOps integration, and AI-powered alt text suggestions: These updates and more were designed to streamline your workflow and boost productivity. Not to mention we have three accessibility updates to improve how assistive technology works with Miro, helping to ensure everyone can experience the Miro magic.

Meetings are an integral part of any business. No matter what position you’re in, you will inevitably have to attend meetings and even make notes. As such, if you’re someone who’s designated to maintain minutes of meetings, then you need a meeting notes template to make your job easier. Starting from scratch every time is inefficient and a waste of time. Using a template allows you to keep things consistent and ensure you cover all important points while saving time and effort.

Project managers often find themselves knee-deep in complex projects—juggling multiple tasks, people, and expectations at once. A detailed Gantt chart template is a great way to bring order and structure to your project management efforts. Here are 15 free Gantt Chart templates to get you started.

As the saying goes, the best things come in threes. Turns out Teamwork.com couldn't agree more and we’re thrilled to now offer three different budget types: Time and materials, Retainer … and Fixed fee! Perfect for teams that complete project-based work on a set-fee, our new Fixed fee budget offers financial stability, profit margin tracking, and revenue transparency.

Liam Martin, co-founder and chief innovation officer of Time Doctor, and Michael, chief data scientist, discussed the new area of predictive workforce analytics and its ramifications for the support sector in the ‘Benchmarking helpdesk software‘ webinar. By examining information from 12,000,000 support tickets, they demonstrated how predictive analytics may completely change how businesses select and use support software. These are the main takeaways from their conversation.

Employee onboarding is the process through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members. The importance of a well-structured onboarding process cannot be overstated, as it directly influences employee retention, engagement, and productivity.

With the rise of remote and hybrid work, many of the things that were long held dear by companies, such as cohesiveness, loyalty, and a chain of command have all started coming apart, with massive long-term ramifications. This is because the traditional ethos of internal communication, which involved memos and emails, is no longer befitting this new age, bringing forth a string of new apps and solutions to pick up the slack “pun intended!” First up, why bother with communication tools at all?

Whenever we hear “Employee Computer Monitoring Software,” we associate it with surveillance and oversight. However, it should be treated as merely a data collection that helps businesses perform better. Its job is to give insight into when employees are taking breaks and how they are performing a specific task. The gathered data can help the organization improve workforce performance. Therefore, organizations can use this data to improve their overall workflow.

In today’s very competitive job market, providing competitive pay is more crucial than ever. According to a Glassdoor survey, nearly 67% of job searchers regard income as their top priority when evaluating job offers. This brings up the topic of competitive compensation, a phrase that is frequently used but not always understood completely.