Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Action items are follow up tasks that you create from a meeting. They should be clearly defined with a description and a deadline, and help bring the conversations you have in meetings to life. Here, we’ll show you the benefits of creating action items, how to create them, and potential mistakes to avoid. It's the end of a successful project kickoff meeting and your team members are ready to move forward to execute everything that was decided in the meeting.

Summary: I get it—employee monitoring is truly tricky! You want to keep productivity high but never create a workplace of mistrust! I remember the time when I even second guessed— should I even monitor or not? But the fact is that employers can and should monitor their employees to enhance productivity, security, and compliance. Here’s the catch - it should be done with balance! Too little monitoring can cause productivity issues, and too much will invade employee privacy.

Summary: Do you feel exhausted by the daily long commutes, office drama, and fixed schedules? What if your job allowed you to save time, lower expenses, and lessen stress, while also increasing your productivity and happiness? Well, this isn't just wishful thinking! It can be your reality if you can approach your office with the top reasons to work from home.

Do you unknowingly frustrate your team with too much control? Imagine trying to assemble furniture, but someone constantly hovers over your shoulder, correcting how you hold the screwdriver, when to tighten a bolt, and how fast you should work. This is a classic example of micromanagement that creates frustration rather than efficiency.

Building a great SaaS product isn’t just about features—it’s about keeping users engaged. You might spend months developing an amazing tool, but if users sign up, explore a few features, and then disappear, all that effort is wasted. Often, it’s not that they dislike your product; they simply forget about it or never realize its full value. That’s where multichannel notifications come in.

This month, we’re focusing on work management improvements. We’ve improved the visibility of time off in the Planner, added week date tooltips in the Booking tool, and more. These changes may be subtle, but they’ll help you work smarter every day!

Retention starts with career growth. Discover how internal mobility keeps employees engaged and how workforce insights from monitoring employee performance drive smarter retention strategies.

Skype, you’ve served us well. If you’ve ever worked remotely or needed to make an international call, there’s a good chance Skype was your go-to app. For years, it was the first tool many of us reached for when starting the day. But as with all technology, change is inevitable. Recent rumors have fueled the idea that Skype’s time is running out.

We’ve all heard the promise that traditional automation systems, like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or AI automation, will eliminate manual work and transform your business operations. This stands true, but only to a certain extent. The traditional automation systems run on rule-based, rigid frameworks, which limits their ability to adapt to changing environments and make independent decisions.

As space becomes an increasingly contested domain, military and defense organizations require robust communication solutions that ensure secure, reliable, and instantaneous data transmission across their operations.