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Why Employees Are Disengaged and What You Can Do About It

Gallup, the analytics and consulting firm, started measuring employee engagement in 2000. They published that employee engagement was at an all-time high of 34% in 2018. Although that is good news, we are far from finished when it comes to creating companies that are exciting and fulfilling places to work at (whether virtual or in-person). Gallup published a separate article exploring the reasons behind why the majority of U.S. employees are not engaged despite the gains.

5 Customer Service Principles That Elevate Your Business

Customer service is a key part of any business and the modern customer has higher expectations than ever before. Helping your customers extends far beyond just making a sale – customers expect businesses to be on hand to handle their queries and ensure they get the most out of their products and services. Delivering quality customer support isn’t easy, and that’s why you need to design your service strategy based on these key customer service principles to guide your team.

Simpplr Recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor for Digital Workplace Strategy and Applications

What’s cooler than being cool? Being designated as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor! What’s cooler than being cool? Being recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor! On May 11th, 2021, Gartner published their research report, “Cool Vendors for Digital Workplace Strategy and Applications.” According to the report, “Remote and hybrid work amplify challenges in coordinating teams as the needs for flexibility around time, place, and technology affect everyone.”

Scrumban 101 What is Scrumban-A beginners guide

Scrumban is the combination of the Agile methodologies of Scrum and Kanban. Since project managers are always looking for ways to do things more efficiently, they created this hybrid system that gives project managers the flexibility to adapt stakeholder and production needs through a more visual approach. Scrumban emerged to meet the needs of teams who wanted to minimize the batching of work and adopt a pull-based system.

How Troop Messenger works invariably different from Microsoft Teams?

If you’re using Troop Messenger just for the basic collaboration services, then I would say you’ve just explored a small portion of its facilities and features. Troop Messenger works fast and better and is the perfect choice for building stronger teams when compared to its counterpart Microsoft Teams. It stands unique in its way with the new-gen chat capabilities, modern calling, and conferencing solutions, and workable features that boost productivity at work.

How Time Doctor Makes FLSA Compliance Easier

For all U.S. based companies or companies with employees in the U.S., FLSA compliance is a major responsibility. Ask anyone in HR or leadership and they will tell you how important it is. In the same breath, they’ll also tell you how time consuming it can be. Operating a remote business can make FLSA compliance even more difficult. With the recent increase in remote work, many companies are struggling with questions on how to stay compliant in their new remote or hybrid work environments.

Microsoft Teams and Slack integration using Matrix

Element Matrix Services lets you pick up the Slack between Teams... Element Matrix Services now offers fully managed bridges for both Microsoft Teams and Slack, so Element (or any other Matrix-based app) can integrate with either service. Connect Element to both, and you can integrate Slack and Microsoft Teams via Matrix.