Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Slack feature drop: Working while you're away

Summer is the great audit. You take a few days off and you find out fast which of your tools actually work without you hovering over them – and which ones just sit there waiting. This month’s release is built for the season. Every feature that we delivered does something for you while your attention is elsewhere. Slackbot synthesises research, generates decks and builds live dashboards without you needing to orchestrate it. Your CRM is in your pocket. Your status schedules itself.

What Is Back Office BPO? Operations, Challenges & Productivity

Back office BPO is the outsourcing of internal business tasks to a third-party service provider. These tasks support daily business operations but do not involve direct customer interaction. Common examples include data entry, payroll, accounting, claims processing, and document management. Businesses use back office BPO to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and free internal teams to focus on core work.

12 Signs of Overworked Employees Every Manager Should Know

Overworked employees often shows clear signs before burnout happens. Missed deadlines, longer work hours, less communication, and lower productivity can show that the workload is too high. This article covers the key signs of employee overload, including what you can spot in one person and what you may notice across a team. Use the 60-second check below to see where your team stands. TL;DR.

Turn knowledge in Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint into connected context

Bring document knowledge you already have access to from Google Drive, SharePoint, and OneDrive into Rovo Search, Chat, and Agents so teams can move from questions to useful context faster. The project plan is in Google Drive. The financial model is in SharePoint. The work is tracked in Jira, and the decisions are documented in Confluence. Your team has the information it needs.

The benefits of capacity planning: protect your margin, your deadlines, and your team

Most teams treat capacity planning as an operations chore, something the resourcing spreadsheet handles on a Monday. That framing is why so much client work loses money without anyone seeing where. Capacity planning is the lever that decides whether the work you win is actually profitable to deliver, and this guide walks through the benefits one by one so you can build the case for it and act on it.

How to Build an Ops Handbook in 9 Easy Steps

You know how things work. The question is whether your team does—or whether that knowledge walks out the door the moment you do. Our research into 303 professional services firms found that only 21% have documented best practices. The other 79% are running on institutional knowledge. Which means onboarding takes longer, quality depends on who’s staffed on a project, and every departure walks out with know-how nobody wrote down. Most ops leads already know this.

How Can Remote Teams Centralize Project Feedback and Decisions?

Centralized project feedback is the foundation of effective collaboration for remote teams. Without a single place to collect, review, and track feedback, important decisions get buried across chats, emails, and meetings, leading to confusion and unnecessary rework.

What a Productivity Audit Reveals About Your Business

Your business looks healthy. Your numbers say otherwise. Every project is staffed. Every team is working. Timesheets are filled out, standups are happening, and clients are (mostly) happy. And yet, at the end of the quarter, the numbers don’t add up the way they should: If this sounds familiar, the issue isn’t effort. It’s visibility. You can’t fix what you can’t see, and most businesses can’t see where their productivity is actually going.