Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Picture the scene: You’ve returned from a wonderful holiday break, invigorated to tackle ambitious projects, and then it hits you. Maybe it’s pinned to your Jira board, or taking up a tab in Confluence. It’s that one project that won’t go away. Its status hasn’t updated in three weeks. The Slack channel for the project is silent.

Starting today, teams can check on their Asana portfolios, generate and preview new projects, and create tasks directly in Claude, Anthropic’s AI offering. This connection is especially meaningful for teams already using Claude to think through work.

The January 2026 release of OneDesk is now live. Here are some of the great new features and enhancements introduced this release.

•A project timeline is a visual roadmap that orders deliverables, tasks, dependencies, and milestones by date, so teams can see what happens next and when it is due. •Timelines clarify priorities, keep the big picture visible, and align stakeholders around shared goals. They also improve communication, unify distributed teams, and surface bottlenecks before they delay delivery.

•A project implementation plan explains how a project will be carried out, defining goals, scope, responsibilities, resources, and timelines so everyone is aligned from the outset. •Starting with an implementation plan improves project outcomes by creating a clear roadmap, aligning stakeholders around shared goals, and reducing miscommunication. •Clear ownership within an implementation plan strengthens accountability, making it easier to track progress and address issues early.

Intelligent cost-saving initiatives use workforce analytics to reduce costs by improving how work actually gets done and enabling smarter, more sustainable decisions. In this article, you’ll learn how workforce analytics helps you: Together, these five (5) approaches show how you can reduce costs, protect productivity, and improve return on investment by making decisions grounded in real work patterns. When you’re under pressure to reduce costs, the instinct is often to cut budgets fast.

When scheduling resources, the difference between perceived availability and actual availability can make or break your project timelines. You might think a team member is free and begin assigning work, only to find out they’re booked solid in meetings all afternoon. How do you mitigate this? Well, Teamwork.com’s Planning views are getting a whole lot smarter—Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar have moved in!