A few months ago it was time for the periodic service of my car. Now I have to say that my car could use a ride through the car wash. A few days before the scheduled servicing, I actually wanted to wash it. Then I thought back to the previous two times my car had received service. Each time I got it back cleaned and washed. “Nice! they’ll wash it at the garage anyway. ” I thought and I decided to skip the car wash. A few days later I was at the garage to pick up my car.

Think about this question—what is media relations? If you said, “Getting featured in the press,” you’ve only done half the job. Today, media relations isn’t just a one-time activity to attract investors, or get a customer’s attention. It ties in with your brand identity as much as marketing does. It matters where you are seen, when you are seen, how you are seen, and with whom you are seen.

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we launched Miroverse, our community templates gallery featuring real workflows from industry thought leaders, partners, and Miro users. Since then, we’ve seen more than 350 creators share 550+ templates, including frameworks, activities — even art. The best part?

We checked in with Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson about building a culture of empowerment and accountability.

The Software Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Software Product Executives of 2021, which includes Simpplr’s Blagoja Golubovski, VP of Product Management. Each nominee on this list is the driving force for software innovation, improved user experience, and the genesis of company revenue growth and continuity. Blagoja was recognized for leading product management and UX at Simpplr, driving and building beautiful products to solve for customer’s pain points.

In Mattermost, our monitoring solution is continuously evolving to meet our scaling infrastructure needs. Our previous architecture used Prometheus federation and was perfect for our small/medium infrastructure size, but was not able to scale in the way we needed. This post will explain how we used Thanos and the Prometheus operator to scale our monitoring infrastructure and meet our long-term storage needs.

Gallup, the analytics and consulting firm, started measuring employee engagement in 2000. They published that employee engagement was at an all-time high of 34% in 2018. Although that is good news, we are far from finished when it comes to creating companies that are exciting and fulfilling places to work at (whether virtual or in-person). Gallup published a separate article exploring the reasons behind why the majority of U.S. employees are not engaged despite the gains.

A call center policy is a document that defines standard guidelines for working at a call or contact center. It sets out the rules regarding employee attendance, breaks, electronic device usage, and more. Here’s a call center policy template that you can download and customize based on your requirements.

Offshoring involves moving your operations partly or completely abroad to save costs while growing your business. This helps companies gain a competitive advantage in their home country. But from communication delays to security risks, offshoring can have some potential negative effects on your business. In this article, we’ll explore the seven most common disadvantages of offshoring and suggest ways to overcome them.

If you’re unable to locate an item in OneDesk, it might be for one of many reasons: you are looking at a filtered view, the item is an archived project, the item has been moved to a project to which you have no access, etc. If you’re attempting to locate an item in OneDesk, try the following.