Coming from a traditional office environment, the ways of working tend to approximate in-person rituals. As the common adage goes “we want what we can’t have.” When you’re in the office together, the hierarchy of communication usually goes something like this: in-person > video > audio > text. But when you take a team and spread them across the world, a preference for synchronous, in-person conversations can drastically slow down collaboration.

Data from the work management platform shows how reducing hours to a 4-day work week might not be as hard as people think – if the working processes follow Scoro has today announced it is moving all 140 staff to a 4-day work week, with no compressed hours and no change in salary.

At Scoro, we’re all about getting rid of those tedious extra steps in your workflow. With this update, we are introducing several project management related improvements that significantly reduce manual work with similar or standard projects. Plus we’ve got some news on the emoji front! Here’s what’s new in Scoro.

Back in March, we announced the first beta release of Element Call, our voice and video conferencing app powered entirely by Matrix. Since then, not only have we been busily using it for all our own internal small-group meetings (it currently only works with up to eight participants - give or take) but we’ve also been working hard on improving and updating it. That makes it really exciting to announce our first major update to Element Call: Beta 2. So, what does this update bring?

This quarter, we've worked hard to improve all product areas with new functionalities and enhancements. Continue reading to learn more about the latest features and improvements in team collaboration, omnichannel, and Marketplace. ‍

CurrentWare version 7.0.1 is here! With this release we’re excited to announce the introduction of two key security features: Two-factor authentication (2FA) and our first two admin activity logs! These enhancements provide an extra layer of security to help ensure that only trusted operators are accessing your admin console while providing greater visibility into what they are doing within the CurrentWare Suite.

If you could build anything, what would you make? At Miro, our goal has always been to empower teams to build the next big thing. Last week we launched our redesigned Miro Developer Platform 2.0, enabling developers and partners to build apps and integrations for Miro’s 35+ million users.

We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature for the Courier platform: Courier Automations. Courier Automations is a toolset that includes both an API and a visual builder that allows anyone to easily configure logic for notification workflows. Need to send a reminder to class attendees 10 minutes before the class starts? Need to page an on-call engineer on multiple channels until they respond? These use cases and more can be achieved quickly and easily with Automations.

New report identifies the Best Performing Professional Services Automation firms based on an Emotional Footprint Evaluation Scoro has been recognized as a leader in the Best Performing Professional Services Automation (PSA) Emotional Footprint report from SoftwareReviews, a division of IT research and consulting firm Info-Tech Research Group.

Forrester, the research and advisory firm, recently published its Now Tech: Secure Communications, Q2 2022 report which provides an overview of 25 providers and helps enterprises understand the value of a secure communications platform. And (we’re all flushed in the face), Element is listed as one of the secure communication providers (available to view here).