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What's new in Asana | August 2026

Welcome to the August edition of What’s new in Asana, our monthly product update. Key moments: AI Studio instruction suggestions: Improve automation instructions in AI Studio with tips from Asana AI to make your instructions clearer. And remember to follow us on our other social media channels: LinkedIn - / asana Instagram - / asana.

When (And How) to Make Your First Operations Hire

As an owner or managing director, you often assume ops responsibilities by default. But that’s a short-term solution. One that inevitably leads to problems and burnout as the business grows. And being overwhelmed often leads to rushing your first ops hire. Then, instead of being able to fix problems, your new team member gets stuck firefighting. Hire strategically instead, with our seven-step process.

Remote work's second wave is here. And it's not about location.

AI is absorbing the parts of your team’s work that used to prove someone was doing their job. If you manage a distributed team, that leaves a real question: what do you actually measure now, and how do you know it’s true? The location debate is already settled. US remote work has held steady at around 27% of the workforce for three years running, according to figures Liam Martin, co-founder of Time Doctor, cited in his opening keynote at Running Remote 2026.

Project Handover Checklist: How to Transfer Projects Without Losing Context

Every workplace has a story like this: a freelancer disappears mid-contract, an employee quits without much notice, or someone just goes on leave for two weeks, and by the time they’re back, nobody remembers what half the files mean. Projects rarely fail because of bad ideas or sloppy execution. They fail because the knowledge was sitting in one person’s head, and that person walked out the door with it.

Simplified time logging is here: fewer fields, more accurate time entries

You can now choose a simpler time logging interface for your team, so people log more time and log it more accurately. Admins decide which fields their team fills in and which get calculated automatically. Less friction on the timesheet means better data feeding your budgets, margins and forecasts. Anyone who's chased a team for missing time entries knows the real problem. It's rarely that people don't want to log their hours.

What's new in Teamwork.com | Summer 2026

Summer delivered. A completely refreshed Task Details, a rebuilt Budgets page, formula-driven Custom Items, a customizable Home dashboards page and deeper financial reporting all shipped this season, alongside a long run of automation, integration and quality-of-life upgrades. Read on for what landed. And one thing you can try early.

New reporting columns give you a clearer view of project profitability

We've added a batch of new columns to custom reports and the profitability report, so you can see revenue, cost targets and effective rates without exporting data or building formulas yourself. If you run delivery or finance for a services team, these are the numbers you check most, now sitting right where you report. This is part of our ongoing work on financial reporting. Less digging, more answers you can trust.