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How the Asana community stays organized while working remotely

Staying on track while working remotely comes down to one thing: effectively collaborating with your team. But learning to collaborate while working remotely means finding ways to maintain visibility into team projects and stay organized from anywhere. To get a glimpse of how people worldwide are staying organized and connected while working remotely, we asked the Asana Community to share their best practices. Read on to learn their tips for collaborating effectively with Asana.

Why your business needs a change management plan

Change can be scary. We’re living through a global pandemic, SpaceX is launching more rockets into space, and scientists have discovered a way to grow mini brains from skin cells. People like the comfort of things they know, like their favorite fuzzy socks or Mom’s chocolate chip cookies. So even when change is a good thing, it might be met with fear and resistance. And when it comes to business, leaders need to recognize that the human side of change can impact their outcomes.

How to Set Up Your IT Team to Enable Remote Work

In the wake of remote work becoming the new normal, businesses today have newfound gratitude for their IT teams. IT admins have been working tirelessly to make sure you have a seamless work-from-home experience by giving you the best technology, warding off bad actors from getting their hands on your company’s data, and onboarding or offboarding employees. In this interview, Prasad, the Chief Information Officer at Freshworks shares what goes on behind the scenes of our IT team.

5 Business Survival tips for SMEs During the Current Crisis

With the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, work-life has slowed to a crawl in most parts of the world, and remote work is the new normal. For startups and small enterprises, there are some important decisions to be made to ensure business survival in the short term. To aid that decision, here are a few tips that could prove useful.

Beyond the Crisis: Proactively Towards the New Normal

I don’t think any of us could have confidently predicted back in February that we would be working from home for several months. But here we are, continuously trying to find our footing and hoping we will get things under control soon. More than that, growing impatient to get back to our normal lives. However, I have caught myself thinking about whether we will ever go back to the way things were before.

Building Strong Relationships with B2B Customers who Prefer Live Chat - Part 1

It’s no secret that more B2B (business-to-business) customers are using live chat than ever before. A simple way to get a response from a business without having to call (and often face hold times) or email, chat is a real-time form of communication many businesses leverage daily. But what happens when most, if not all, of your conversations with a customer happen over chat?

Dropbox vs Google Drive vs Onedrive: Which Storage Solution Is Ahead of the Game?

First thing’s first: Why are you comparing Google Drive with OneDrive or Dropbox? If you’re reading this dropbox vs google drive review, it’s safe to assume you want to make a more informed choice about choosing your cloud storage solutions. Given how all these three giants are rolling one feature after another, the choice can be tough. And that’s what we are here for - to take the pain out of the dropbox vs onedrive comparison trap and simplify it for you.

The Ultimate Guide To Managing Remote Employees in 2020

Managing remote employees can be a challenge for many team managers — especially if you recently switched to remote work due to the Coronavirus pandemic! But don’t worry, managing remote teams isn’t difficult! To help you out, we’ll cover a few essential tips on managing remote employees in this article. We’ll talk about the challenges of managing remote employees, the best solutions to them and highlight a few essential tools for every remote team.

Seamless branch deploys with Kubernetes

Basecamp’s newest product HEY has lived on Kubernetes since development first began. While our applications are majestic monoliths, a product like HEY has numerous supporting services that run along-side the main app like our mail pipeline (Postfix and friends), Resque (and Resque Scheduler), and nginx, making Kubernetes a great orchestration option for us.