Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

New and upcoming automation features help your teams do more with less.

Offering even more transparency, these enhancements empower teams to feel secure as they embrace the future of work.

New enhancements to your digital HQ make it easier than ever to work from anywhere.

We’re incredibly excited to share this news! In our view, being identified as a leader in The Forrester Wave for Secure Communications (Q3 2022) is a powerful validation of the benefits Element brings to large enterprises and governments. In Forrester’s words Element is a great fit for “...organizations that prioritize flexibility, federation, and data sovereignty”. We are always having conversations with our customers about these three benefits.

On July 18, 2022, Slack announced that starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will be limited to just the past 90 days of message history. At first blush, this might look like a minor policy tweak. But it is in fact a dramatic change that makes Slack’s free plan untenable for many organizations, including ones that have been happily using Slack’s free plan for years.

It's no secret that cybersecurity threats are becoming more and more prevalent, and companies are starting to take notice. But while it's important to make sure your company is taking the necessary steps to protect itself from potential cyber attacks, it's also important to make sure you're not making it too difficult for employees to do their jobs. After all, if employees are spending all their time trying to wade through complicated security measures, they're not going to be very productive.

No matter the domain, managing teams, is one of the challenging and crucial duties for every manager. A manager will be recruited for more than just managing the Company's finances, profit, and loss; managing the team and groups is also a necessary duty. The most significant error made by small to large businesses is choosing employees for promotions or hiring based on their knowledge of the sector rather than their people management skills.

In today’s hybrid work culture, teams need the support of a powerful collaboration tool to function efficiently. And though ample options are available in the market, open source collaboration software is gaining more popularity than ever. Why? This type of software promises better collaboration for security- and compliance-oriented teams.

For remote teams, connectivity and productivity might be two faces of the same coin. Working from the office isn't a prerequisite anymore, as the global workforce has shifted to a remote workplace. Reliance on internal communication has increased more than ever, with a wide range of communication tools such as email, phone calls, and social networking used daily. Long email threads and social media chats are no longer appropriate for business teams.