There was nothing in particular that should have drawn attention to the two individuals sitting for drinks at the bar in Reno. Just two old colleagues catching up over some drinks. But if someone had paid close enough attention (and perhaps spoke Russian), then they might have overheard that one of the pair was attempting to recruit the other into what was possibly one of the biggest ransomware operations to date.

Getting the best out of your team is always a challenge, but it gets even more interesting when you have to manage team members working from their different homes. This article explores techniques that improve your team’s effectiveness and efficiency. One of the trending topics in productivity management today is “The Future of Work”. While the subject is not entirely new, the discussions around it have taken a new dimension.

When working from home, staying on task and ensuring your productivity can become harder. Fortunately, there are some proven strategies to beat procrastination when working remotely. Do you often find yourself procrastination while working from home? It’s not just you. Studies show that 84% of students and the working population experience putting off important tasks. Without the watchful eyes of your supervisor, you may often find yourself aimless and easily distracted.

Applications deployed on the cloud keep growing in size and complexity every day, bringing the need for DevOps engineers to make sure that their application is running in the most efficient way possible. There are a lot of problems, solutions and best practices to make sure an application is efficient, under various categories. Observability Observability is the measure of how well your application’s state can be understood, and how clearly inferences are drawn from that.

Mattermost Release v5.28 is generally available today. The new feature release offers granular administrator roles, certificate-based authentication with AD/LDAP, and in-product notifications. The release includes the following new features.

We’re always looking to improve our platform, and lately, we at Workativ have been quite busy. It’s that time of the month where we give you all the news and updates and new features that Workativ has added to enhance the capabilities of Workativ Assistant. Without further delay, take a look at some of the key new features we have released.

In recent months, we’ve seen a surge in the use of collaboration and communication tools among remote teams to simplify collaboration, and keep company cultures alive while working from home. At Teamwork, we believe that communication and project management tools should go hand-in-hand to ensure smooth team collaboration, and that’s where our latest integration comes in.

Like most companies, the Teamwork Spaces crew have been working remotely for a while now, and they have been busy, delivering new and enhanced features for you and your teams. With the introduction of the Space Manager role, an improved access request flow, and new space categories — organizing your Teamwork Spaces account has just gotten a lot easier.

Back when COVID-19 triggered a massive exodus for workers from the office to their homes, many organizations found a silver lining to the disruption. They found out what their mettle was made of. They found resilience. Working from home was all the rage. I personally read article after article glorifying the new normal of remote work — and it certainly does have its upside. At the beginning of the pandemic, many companies were concerned that remote working would be damaging to productivity.

The customer has changed and so have their expectations on what customer experience means to them. As these expectations change, so must the company and their approach to customer experience. There was a time when hyper-personalization and chatbots were the leading methods to engage with customers. Today, customers are looking for a very different approach that addresses two key attributes: Access to information and speed to resolution.