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Part 2: Not Making a Decision is Still a Decision

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about why it’s important to make decisions that can positively impact your customer support department swiftly, and what the consequences are if you don’t. Even a big decision like changing your B2B customer support system can move quickly if you know where to start and how to evaluate the right solution providers.

Slack open source: Top 3 reasons why companies adopt different platforms for team collaboration

If you were to survey the most productive teams, you’d find a common ingredient – efficient communication. That explains the rise of team collaboration tools in 2020 and mega deals happening in the industry, such as Salesforce’s acquisition of Slack. However, right after heavily adopting tools like Slack, companies might notice the downsides of such tools. We aren’t just talking about fearing that Slack will hand over your data to Salesforce.

Deliver the best omnichannel customer service with Freshdesk

Freshdesk is a customer service and engagement platform that brings people and bots together to delight customers at every touchpoint across all channels. Freshdesk empowers businesses to monitor customer conversations across email, phone, chat, social media and instant messaging, improve agent productivity with smart automations, deliver better self-service experiences with AI-chatbots and branded help centers, and monitor key performance metrics with powerful analytics. Freshdesk is used by 40,000 businesses across the globe to make customer service their competitive advantage.

10 Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

Operational efficiency is crucial to the success of your company. Improving efficiency is a combined effort of measuring and refining processes, employees, technology, and financials. The goal is the continual improvement of these aspects to maintain and increase your business’s operational efficiency. Do you want to learn more about enhancing your operational efficiency? Check out StartingPoint, the platform for customer success and service management!

Elsevier Tech cuts report generation time to less than half with Freshworks Analytics

Elsevier Technologies is a global information analytics business that helps scientists and clinicians to find new answers, reshape human knowledge, and tackle the most urgent social crises. For 140 years, they have partnered with the research world to curate and verify scientific knowledge. As one of the world’s foremost providers of scientific, technical, and medical information, Elsevier publishes more than 470,000 articles annually in over 2,500 journals.

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Is IT Prepared for a Hybrid Remote Workplace Environment?

Return to work is happening. After working remotely from home for months due to Covid, companies are now offering employees the option to return to their workplace. In a survey done by Google, 62% of its workers would like to return to the office at some point and see their work future as more flexible. This sentiment is catching up among the rest of the enterprises in Silicon Valley and the rest of America. The hybrid remote workplace model continues to be appreciated by employees seeking to spend more time with family and engaging with the office community.

Streamline your content review process with the TaskReviewer extension

The way we live and work has changed significantly in the last year. One aspect of our work lives that has taken a hit is the way we collaborate with our colleagues and clients. The process of reviewing content and providing feedback may have been done face-to-face in the past, but this won’t be possible in the near future.

Asana tips: 4 templates for managing an Agile team with Asana

Did you know you can run an Agile team with Asana? Though Agile is a popular lean project methodology for product, engineering, and software development teams, any team can run Agile processes with Asana. Whether you’re building Kanban boards, running Scrum sprints, or using another Agile philosophy, try these templates to get your team started with Agile project management in Asana.

Will Work-from-Home Lead to Shrinking Big Cities and a Suburban Explosion?

In early March of 2020 during the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, countless workers suddenly found themselves working remotely — some for the very first time. Businesses needed to quickly adapt to this uncertain “new normal” we were all a part of and for many, telework became an ideal “stop-gap” to continue operations in a way that bought time until everyone could return to the office again.