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When Your Agency Has TOO MUCH New Business w/ Joe Sullivan

Many agencies--just like yours--are echoing this common refrain: Either it’s feast or famine right now. In today's episode, Joe Sullivan shares how his agency, Gorilla 76, is experiencing a "feast" season where demand is exceeding supply. They’re having to tell clients they can’t start working with them for several months–even if they’re ready to sign & start today. It’s a good problem to have, but one that they’ve still got to solve. An aim for what Joe refers to as “managed growth.”

Mastering Overtime Management: Strategies, Best Practices, and FLSA Compliance

Currently, all US businesses must track the time of all non-exempt employees and keep those records for 2 years to comply with FLSA, thus avoiding unexpected and costly wage and hour lawsuits. In terms of the FLSA, these are some of the most important things every employer and employee should know about complying with the DOL’s FLSA timekeeping.

How Much Does Payroll Cost for Small Businesses?

Small business owners often face challenges setting up a payroll system, particularly if accounting isn’t their strength. It can lead to errors, late payments, or compliance issues. There are some factors that influence the choice of the right payroll system for a business, such as; Accurate payroll is important because incorrect tax filings can lead to penalties, fines, and legal implications for the business. Thus, it impacts its financial stability and reputation.

Story points: Estimation guide for user stories in Agile

Story points are an estimation technique used in Agile project management methodologies to help your team scope the effort required to complete a task. Story points account for factors like task complexity and uncertainty, which makes them more accurate than other estimation techniques such as time-based estimation. Estimating story points may sound complicated, but we’ve got you covered—we’ve broken down the process into six simple steps.

Managing Incidents in Jira | The Developer's Edge | Atlassian

Explore how developers can manage incidents in Jira Software using the new incidents tab. The incidents tab pulls relevant incidents from Jira Service Management and other third-party tools, into Jira Software so developers can focus on incidents impacting software components they’re responsible for in the same tool where their development backlog lives. For more about Incidents in Jira check out these articles.

How to Be Productive During The Workday

Are you struggling to find ways to be productive? You’re not alone. Productivity is something that most people struggle with at some point or another. But don’t worry – you can do several activities and strategies to be more productive in your day-to-day life. This guide will get you more out of your day by setting achievable goals, organizing your time and workspace, and using productivity tools and techniques. Let’s get started!

Top 4 Skills to Look Out for in DevOps Engineers

Finding the right DevOps talent to accomplish a seemingly endless series of complex technical tasks has become a top priority for organisations. As businesses strive to increase agility and scalability with the use of enterprise-grade cloud architecture, adopting practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) become highly sought-after.

New in Basecamp: Easier Edits

We're making Basecamp better! It's now easier to make quick edits. Before, editing titles or renaming tools in a Basecamp project took multiple steps, taking you to a different page, and then back again. We made it easier! Now, you can rename projects, tools, documents, messages and more without ever leaving the page. Simply click and make your changes.

Boost Your Workforce Productivity With Web-Based Tracker

The way companies track and manage workforce productivity is changing. The change is more frequent for companies with teams working from home or in different places. The tools and methods used before to track productivity do not work well now. Most businesses are switching to web-based trackers for productivity monitoring. Many business leaders feel pressure from management to make teams more productive. A report says 71% of business leaders feel this pressure.

How Slack protects your data when using machine learning and AI

We recently heard from some in the Slack community that our published privacy principles weren’t clear enough and could create misunderstandings about how we use customer data in Slack. We value the feedback, and as we looked at the language on our website, we realised that they were right. We could have done a better job of explaining our approach, especially regarding the differences in how data is used for traditional machine learning (ML) models and in generative AI.