Our mission to empower teams to unlock new ways of collaborating motivates us every day to invent powerful-yet-simple tools. This month, we released features and updates to help you keep your projects on track and your workflows united, with fresh frameworks, a new shape pack, improved integrations, and more. To see how Miro’s newest innovations can help your team work better together, check out our roundup of releases from June.

If you work from home, you’ve faced this dilemma: You want to show face during a video meeting to signal engagement with your job, but video meeting stress is the unavoidable consequence when you go on camera. It’s been more than two years since millions started working from home, and by this point, we’re all tired of seeing our own faces.

When it comes to working together, we could think it’s all about delegating tasks and letting people be, right? Yet, this premise is far from the truth! Effective collaboration allows for different points of view and interpersonal skills to be brought together to reach a common goal. Therefore, to build a collaborative environment, you need to develop collaboration skills; this is exactly why we are here!

Many people prefer to work remotely because they don’t have to commute and enjoy more flexibility. It gives them the opportunity to tailor their schedules to fit their lifestyles and find a better work/life balance. According to FlexJobs, 60% of women and 52% of men will quit their jobs if their employers do not offer remote work. Having to manage remote employees can be challenging for managers who still have a traditional mindset.

Management problems are not uncommon in large, multileveled organizations. In many cases, the root of the issue lies in the communication channels between employees, stakeholders, and management, which causes information to be lost or distorted. Poor communication hampers decision-making. It also creates conflict and silos within the company. According to research, 86% of business executives and employees acknowledge workplace failures to be products of weak communication.

It’s a surprise to most people that the majority of embedded chat is not end-to-end encrypted (E2EE). And that’s perfectly understandable. You’d automatically think that a healthcare insurance firm would provide its customers with E2EE webchat. Or that when you’re in your bank’s app, the live chat would be E2EE. But it’s generally not the case. Test it out now - open your banking or healthcare app and ask if the live chat is end-to end encrypted.