Time is the most critical element and when it comes to achieving goals, the value of time gets multi-folded. Now when workplaces are evolving with growing remote teams and businesses are striving to enhance employee efficiency in distributed work, managing workforce hours is important to maximize productivity in remote work.

We are committed to ensuring our customers’ voices are heard. With every new version, we are actively seeking ways to enhance Rocket.Chat as an effective platform for communication, collaboration, and business goals achievement. If you've been with us since the start of the year, you'll notice we've introduced a new version practically every month, illustrating our unwavering commitment to constant improvement.

Are you concerned about the impact of employee absenteeism on your organization’s productivity, morale, and bottom line? Do you wish to understand how to calculate absenteeism rates and implement effective strategies to reduce them? Look no further. This comprehensive guide will give you a fresh perspective on employee absenteeism, its actual cost, and how to combat it.

As an engineer, you’ve had to master the art of thinking big — and solving small. Engineers have to understand the big picture and see where the ship needs to go. But they also need to build the microscopic parts and pieces of that ship — sometimes while it’s already on the water! It isn’t easy to think big and solve small, but project management software can help you keep both sides of the engineering coin in sharp focus.

In an effort to offer multiple ways to easily manage, view, and log time across all projects and tasks, we’re thrilled to share that you now have two ways to view your timesheet. Calendar view and Sheet view will both provide customizable, flexible, and efficient time logging experiences to better match how you choose to log your time.

Suppose it is July, and when you check your bank account, you realize there is an extra pay you did not get in June. You are receiving three paychecks instead of the two paychecks, as usual. This is what you get in the world of five paycheck months. If you are paid bi-weekly, some months fall on 24 instead of 26, meaning that you will have one extra day to save or spend.

Reflect on the last time you had to sit down and think through something — whether it was a complex problem, an important project, or a new product feature. Your brain was likely a jumble of questions, ideas, tasks, and tangents. And while that buzzy creative energy is a good thing, it can be tough to make sense of all of the random pieces of information spinning in your head. That’s exactly where the mind mapping method comes in handy.

Think humans are dispensable in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? The opposite is true — we’ve never needed human intelligence in the workplace more to navigate organizational blind spots, communicate effectively, and lead with authenticity.

Taking good meeting notes is an important project management skill to have. By providing your stakeholders with good meeting notes, you’re offering clarity into important conversations and key decisions being made, even if they’re unable to make the meeting. In this article, we discuss different note-taking techniques so you can create effective meeting notes. Meetings are an important part of projects—they are where decisions get made and team members connect with each other.

Not every company or team has a formal project management process. Whether you work at a large organization or a fast-growing startup, formal project management may not be something your team has prioritized yet. But now, you’re finding it increasingly difficult to stay organized and collaborate with teammates. You might be wondering if you need project management—except that’s just a thing for teams with dedicated project managers, right?