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Providing efficient chat options to developers can help optimize workflow and increase your business’s return on investment (ROI). Developers must stay aligned with their team when working on a project. Connecting them via a chat platform is the easiest way to do this. With the help of an adequate chat app, you can achieve project-based communication within your teams.
Companies know they need an adaptable, diverse and energized workforce — and that flexibility is key to retaining, and competing for, top talent. While remote job listings globally have more than doubled, employers are still catching up to employees’ expectations. For instance, many US workplaces only allow employees to work remotely some of the time, even though, when offered—almost everyone jumps at the opportunity.
Five days of filming, 60+ crew members, 14 actors, 40 extras, and one Miro board. At Miro, we don’t just eat our own dogfood – we use our product to run our entire company. So, when we set out to create our first national ad campaign this year, it was only natural that we turned to our platform to get the job done. We partnered with Portland-based agency Öpınıonated to launch a multi-channel campaign spanning TV, print, and digital ads across the United States.
No marketer is an island. Having a great team of people on your side is one of the most important things you can do to set your business up for marketing success, but to maximize your team’s efficiency, you need to make sure everyone is on the same page. This is especially significant because today’s marketing teams have to juggle many moving parts.
The digital employee experience (DEX) spans the entirety of an employee’s interactions with their digital workplace — new employee onboarding, managing healthcare benefits, company newsletters, employee engagement surveys, project management dashboards, and more. So, why are companies making so many mistakes with its design? We have answers.
For developers, collaboration goes beyond instant messaging apps or project management tools. Information gaps between departments, personnel, and operations support may exist, especially when developers have a big workload or are working on a complex code or project. A newer collaboration model can help developers streamline their work and eliminate information silos that delay decision-making. A level up from older tools, ChatOps is also known as ‘conversation-driven collaboration’.
Recruitment, especially in tech, is seriously hard work. Even just for one new team member. Listing a job, sifting through applicants, interviewing them, re-interviewing the best, negotiating an offer… It’s a lot. Imagine going through all of that, finally hiring a candidate, and waiting for their start date to arrive – only to discover that they’re totally wrong for the job, and completely at odds with your company values.
According to Gallup, the U.S. employee engagement slump continues. The ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees has been falling consistently since 2019, hitting a recent low in 2022 of just 1.9 to 1. For every 19 engaged employees who are out there giving a company their all, another 10 are actively working to undermine those efforts. On the surface, it might sound like the balance is in favor of engagement. After all, there are almost two engaged employees for every disengaged one.