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Combination of no. 1 CRM platform with the most innovative enterprise communications platform creates the operating system for the new way to work

Did you know you can run an Agile team with Asana? Though Agile is a popular lean project methodology for product, engineering, and software development teams, any team can run Agile processes with Asana. Whether you’re building Kanban boards, running Scrum sprints, or using another Agile philosophy, try these templates to get your team started with Agile project management in Asana.

In early March of 2020 during the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, countless workers suddenly found themselves working remotely — some for the very first time. Businesses needed to quickly adapt to this uncertain “new normal” we were all a part of and for many, telework became an ideal “stop-gap” to continue operations in a way that bought time until everyone could return to the office again.

We released Zulip Server 3.3 today! This is a bug fix release, containing a few cherry-picked changes since Zulip Server 3.2.

Searching for the best online time and attendance software? Tracking time and attendance is essential for any business. It not only gives an accurate measure of employee time but also improves productivity, streamlines payroll processes, and boosts morale. However, you can’t track time and attendance using a time clock, pen, and paper. Timekeeping software is the better option here. But with hundreds of tools available in the market, which should you use?

In business and in life, making a decision is easy when you’re working with a true partner and together can weigh all the factors involved towards making the right decision. In a specific example, the same can be said when it comes to making decisions that impact your B2B customer support teams’ success. As a customer support leader, you have to make a million decisions a day, and many, if not most of them, involve helping to solve customer issues.

In different parts of the world, it is lawful to track the working time of employees. Take, for instance, according to federal law in the United States as stipulated by the Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA), employers should have records of every hourly employee, showing the number of hours they log in each day and workweek, the date and time the workweek began, hourly pay rate, regular income, overtime earnings and overtime hours logged in.

Texting is one of the most used forms of communication. In the United States alone, 5.5 billion text messages are sent daily. So maybe it’s not so much of a surprise that your customers want to be able to text your business when they need support. Few things are more frustrating than when you’re trying to solve a problem and just end up sitting on hold. And texting offers an alternative for you and your customers.

Sometime last year, we found the opportunity to optimize one of our critical API endpoints that was served using Ruby on Rails. This led to a series of investigations before we identified the right long-term solution for our particular use case. It required us not only to leverage a new JSON serializer, but also challenged us to build efficient caching and deployment strategies to go with it. This is the tale of how we embarked on that compelling journey and what we learned as a result.