The COVID-19 pandemic forced a huge shift to remote work. Almost overnight, companies had to adapt to fully-distributed teams. Now, with hybrid and remote work here to stay, organizations must understand the psychology of this new world of work. Meet John, an account manager who loved the social office atmosphere at his job. When COVID hit, he found himself working from a tiny apartment. Video calls left him drained. Keeping fit was a challenge. John missed the office banter and morale.

Regular performance reviews are a staple of any successful company. They identify employees’ needs, help managers provide better support, and indicate what works and doesn’t work within your business. They can also help managers understand performance gaps, uncover roadblocks, streamline processes, identify training needs, and even get a picture of what new hires they need to make. In short, performance reviews are critical to give leaders visibility of where their operations are at.

Daily work, or to say the same work brings boredom. We all face it, but losing to it is not the right thing to do. But what’s the solution? How to be self motivated and how to build a team of motivated people? Have you ever felt the rush of motivation after watching a motivational video or being with a successful person? That feeling makes you work hard, at least for the next few days, and that needs to be done continuously for your teams.

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Are you feeling pulled in a million directions? Organizing day-to-day life is an absolute agony when you need to play many roles in your personal and professional space 24/7. Thanks to the task management tools for managing and automating our order of the day. In search of a task management app, you may hear about Todoist or a user of it as it is already beating the task management market. But there may be a better suit for your needs.

This summer, 13 contributors completed the Google Summer of Code(GSoC) program with the Zulip development community. This was the 8th consecutive year that Zulip participated in GSoC; over 100 contributors have now completed one of our formal internship programs, primarily through Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Our welcoming community is fully committed to helping bring up the next generation of open-source contributors from a wide range of backgrounds.

If you’re running a business, customer service is king. To keep your customers happy, you need to ensure that your team is meeting their needs and expectations at all times. But how do you know if your team is delivering the level of service your customers demand? That’s where service level indicators come in. Service level indicators (SLIs) are the metrics used to track the performance and reliability of your customer service team.

In the early stages of a business, reporting is usually straightforward. You have a small set of KPIs, and not many people who need to see them. In fact, when I launched my first business – an online magazine – I had exactly one KPI (Number of Subscribers), and the only people who needed to see this metric was me and my co-founder.

In the world of business, where communication moves quickly, virtual meetings have become essential. Even if a lot of businesses currently utilize AI to improve their video conferencing systems, the arrival of generative AI is going to change everything. This blog article discusses how virtual meetings are going to experience a radical change and how generative AI has the potential to completely transform the way we work together online.

Companies use various business planning tools and frameworks, but none are as simple and evergreen as a simple SWOT analysis one. It’s a quick and effective way to analyze a company, process, individual, or strategy by looking at important internal and external factors at play. Given the frequency of use and the number of use cases, it’s smart to have a ready-to-use SWOT analysis template for your business.