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Four Asana activities to boost connection during the holidays

This year, due to remote work and COVID-19, work holiday celebrations might look a little different than usual. Most companies can’t plan their traditional holiday party or organize holiday-themed in-person events. But just because you can’t connect in person doesn’t mean you can’t close the year with some team connection. For tips, we turned to our Professional Services and Customer Success teams.

Tuning MySQL and the Ghost of Index Merge Intersection

Optimizing SQL queries is always fun—except when it isn’t. If you’re a MySQL veteran and have read the title, you already know where this is heading 😉. In that case, allow me to regale the uninitiated reader. This is the story of an (apparently) smart optimization to a SQL query that backfired spectacularly—and how we finally fixed it. It started off with a customer noticing that a SQL query was running slowly in their environment.

Kronos vs Replicon vs Time Doctor: 2021 Comparison

Are you looking for a detailed Kronos vs Replicon vs Time Doctor comparison? Kronos, Replicon, and Time Doctor are three popular time and attendance software available today. But which tool fits your needs best? To help you out, we’ll compare Kronos vs Replicon vs Time Doctor in this article. We’ll highlight their key features and pricing details so you can make an informed decision when choosing your time and attendance software.

Use Google Sheets' ImportXML function to scrape and visualize data

Google Sheets has a built-in function called ImportXML which can be used to scrape publicly available structured data from webpages. ImportXML imports data from any of various structured data types including XML, HTML, CSV, TSV, and RSS and ATOM XML feeds. In this post we’ll show you how to use the ImportXML function to aggregate Pinterest followers from different Pinterest accounts into a Google Sheet, and then visualize that information using Geckoboard’s Spreadsheets data source.

Four Metrics That Matter For Remote Workers

The novel coronavirus has hastened a trend toward remote work that was already years in the making. Before the pandemic, many employees worked off-site at least once a week. Now that number is soaring, and PwC estimates that 72% of workers would like to continue working remotely even after the pandemic subsides. In many ways, this is excellent news.

7 things that waste employees time at work and how to deal with it

It is a common saying that time is precious, and it is just like an opportunity. Once it is gone, it can never be regained. Therefore, it is important that whatever task anybody finds themselves doing at the moment, you had better put in much so as to yield high productivity, because once that time is gone and nothing positive comes out of it, such person is no different from Time Wasters.

Story points & the evolution of agile estimation

We’ve joined leaders in the industry to unpack story points and the evolution of agile estimation. Estimation using story points has become the most popular way for agile teams to rate the relative effort of work, instead of traditional time-based estimates. Check out this roundtable from leading industry experts Mike Cohn, John Cutler, Andrea Fryrear, Troy Magennis, and Dave West.