How would you feel if your boss asked you to come back to the office next week? Let’s say, for example, that you’ve been working remotely since the start of the pandemic. You had never considered remote work as a viable option before, but now that you’ve been working from home for over a year, you love it. Your long and stressful commute is gone, you’ve been taking better care of yourself, and you have more time to spend with your family and friends.

Consider this scenario — you have a team that works onsite or visits the client’s office for a meeting. But since they’re away from the office, they can’t check in when they arrive. You either have to call them to confirm their attendance or hope that they report their arrival time honestly. Do you imagine yourself wishing for a better way to track attendance? Fortunately, you can use an attendance app for employees.

Employees are every company’s greatest resource, and it’s essential to manage your staff members efficiently. You’ll have to be wary of early departures, tardiness, and excessive absenteeism as it can affect your bottom line. And when some employees don’t do their daily tasks, it can add to your team member’s workload – leading to burnout, dampened team spirit, and lowered productivity. That’s a no-go for everyone, right?

Struggling to get all the details on new incoming task requests for you and your team? When you go to review the tasks, are they missing vital information that would allow you to take action? Stop losing time going back and forth searching for project details and say hello to the new Teamwork feature: Intake Forms. It’s never been easier to gather information by personalizing the intake form associated with your project.

How important is it to seamlessly collaborate on documents in real-time with your team? Very important, right? That’s why Teamwork has revamped the entire Notebooks feature! Now your team can easily create a space for essential information with the new collaborative and simplified editor. Host your team’s documents and use the new searchable table view to quickly find and digest the information.

A discussion on leadership and the role of workplace technology for today’s connected, complex world

Personal finance is so important to consumers that more than a third of Americans review their checking account balance daily. Meanwhile, the rise in popularity of financial technology solutions, (fintech), means that more people than ever can make life-changing money moves with a tiny computer in their pockets. In fact, Fintech startups have a real opportunity to transform how customers engage with the global economy, but the stakes are high.

Finding the right information in Mattermost is critical to work smarter and be more productive. Searching in Mattermost now finds both relevant messages and files in your team’s conversation history. Search will return results for attachments that match the file name or contain matching text content within supported document types. File search is available today in Mattermost Cloud and in Mattermost Self-Managed v5.35 (available May 16), with mobile support coming soon.

With remote working as the present and the future, the workplace will never be the same again. And despite the challenges that come with managing a virtual team, the positive change it’s had with many teams and companies cannot be denied. One thing that seems to be both a challenge and an opportunity? Building trust in your virtual team. On the one hand, remote work can be an inherent sign of trust between employer and employee.