To say that information governance is critical in the fast-paced digital era that we’re currently living in is probably a little bit of an understatement. Every day, businesses are creating countless volumes of data that contain the insight necessary to guarantee success for the next five, ten or even twenty years of that organization’s existence.

From apps that boost focus to trivia that builds team morale, here are our top recommendations for remote working tools to keep distributed teams at the top of their game. Lilly Shor, Content Manager, Craft.io With the pandemic still in full swing worldwide, teams that turned remote overnight are now grappling with the ongoing challenges faced by distributed teams. And at least for the foreseeable future, it looks like remote work is here to stay.

There’s no doubt that your company benefits when employees are actively interested in their work. A recent Gallup survey revealed that highly engaged employees are more productive, have higher customer ratings, and are more likely to stay with the company. The value of employee engagement may seem obvious to you as a manager. Even so, many organizations struggle to keep employees interested in their work. Worldwide, just 15% of employees are engaged.

As a researcher interested in teamwork and team effectiveness, March 2020 was a fascinating moment for me. Around the world, knowledge workers at organisations large and small were suddenly forced to work from their homes. As we scrambled to get a read on the effect this was having inside Atlassian, we also commissioned an international, multimodal study to capture and make sense of the impact on individuals and teams across a range of industries as they grappled with these extraordinary changes.

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