Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. Over the past few months, we’ve rolled out an incredibly flexible system for managing permissions in Zulip: Permissions can now be granted to any combination of roles, groups, and individual users. This applies to permissions for managing channels, groups, and the organization as a whole.

Zulip organized team chat has a new, incredibly flexible system for permissions management! With it, you can: This permissions system is now available in Zulip Cloud and to self-hosted organizations that upgrade to Zulip Server 10.0 (released today!). In this post, I’ll walk you through how to start using the new functionality to make it easier to manage your organization.

Tracking when your employees are working, what they are doing at work, and what you need to pay them when the work is done can be a complex task. But does it have to be? There are numerous employee monitoring software available on the market that let you observe your employees’ work activities and patterns. But it’s not just about getting a Big Brother-like oversight into the working habits of your employees.

The return-to-office debate is a distraction. High-performing companies aren’t focused on where employees work—they’re optimizing how work happens. Discover why workforce intelligence, not office mandates, is the key to long-term success.

Quiet quitting drains productivity and morale, but it’s preventable. Discover how to re-engage your team and use real-time insights from tools for managing remote workers to address disengagement.

Kudos to The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) which has produced an excellent report into the use of consumer messaging apps within the Australian government. Based on a survey of 22 government agencies, it is one of the few quantitative research papers addressing the issue.

Productivity tracking is the practice of monitoring how time and effort are spent on tasks, projects, and goals. It provides a data-driven view of your work habits, showing how efficiently (or inefficiently) you’re using your most limited resource—time. Instead of relying on assumptions or feelings of busyness, productivity tracking delivers real numbers. You can spot which tasks drain your energy, when your peak performance hours are, and where you lose focus.

An employee performance review is a meeting between a manager and their employee to discuss how the team member is pacing toward organizational goals. Though simple in design, there are many ways to create a more effective process that brings your reviews to life. See the top 15 performance review templates to measure success and improve your review skills. Measuring success is a key piece to leading an effective team. After all, you can’t improve until you know what skills you need to build.

Goals give structure to big-picture plans for your business—but they’re only useful if you can action on them. Lotte Vester, Head of Organizational Strategy at Asana, drives a process to guide teams through execution of goals. She helps transform broad initiatives into focused goals and Key Results (KRs) for Asana's dynamic teams. But she’s a one person team, and Asana is a multi-faceted, global organization. So she doesn’t try to do it alone.

Have you ever wondered why customer support operations feel like a maze? With so many customer communications across email, phone, chat, and social media, teams struggle with inefficiencies, siloed data, and poor customer context. When your customer service agents don’t have a 360-degree view of the customer, they waste time switching between systems—leading to slow resolutions and poor service experience.