Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

With teams working from different corners of the world, making plans with your team and finding a suitable time slot for a call can be tricky. With this update, we’ve taken on our Calendar, making it possible for you to effortlessly set up team meetings with clear insight into your team’s schedule and resource availability. Plus, we’ve added a couple of new permissions for increased flexibility and granularity when it comes to defining your teams’ workflows.

Today’s senior leaders have a visibility problem. Within your organization, you likely oversee many projects across many teams, balancing details and budgets competing for your attention. If you pause for a moment, do you know exactly the state of your organization’s work at any given time?

This month we’re thrilled to bring you some exciting new updates in Teamwork, Teamwork Mobile, and Teamwork Desk. From new inline editing capabilities within Table View to the Teamwork Desk Data Viewer, which helps you connect and visualize data from other sources directly in the ticket view, and new functionality within teamwork Mobile, we’ve got features that will get you to work more efficiently.

In a world of distributed and hybrid work, it’s more important than ever for organizations to create seamless workflows that empower collaboration and enhance cross-functional visibility. That’s why we launched Asana Partners, a single platform for distributed work that connects over 200 essential application partners.

We don’t need to tell you that how we work has totally changed over the last year. More than ever, teams have had to adapt to a new normal and learn how to achieve real-time collaboration without actually being together. With companies going (and staying) remote, it’s more important than ever to implement real-time collaboration tools and create spaces to help your team communicate effectively.

Microsoft is introducing their new universal bot action model in the Adaptive Cards schema version 1.4. Adaptive cards were introduced by Microsoft to enable you to take quick actions across their different platforms without you having to leave the platform of your choice.

Scrumban is the combination of the Agile methodologies of Scrum and Kanban. Since project managers are always looking for ways to do things more efficiently, they created this hybrid system that gives project managers the flexibility to adapt stakeholder and production needs through a more visual approach. Scrumban emerged to meet the needs of teams who wanted to minimize the batching of work and adopt a pull-based system.

For all U.S. based companies or companies with employees in the U.S., FLSA compliance is a major responsibility. Ask anyone in HR or leadership and they will tell you how important it is. In the same breath, they’ll also tell you how time consuming it can be. Operating a remote business can make FLSA compliance even more difficult. With the recent increase in remote work, many companies are struggling with questions on how to stay compliant in their new remote or hybrid work environments.