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The joyful feeling of being productive on Zulip

Today is my three-year anniversary as the product leader for Zulip, the organized team chat product. When I left my job as a data science manager at Lyft, the career change felt like an experiment. Now, I’ve been reflecting on why it’s hard to imagine working on anything else. I’ve never had much patience for technology that’s not doing what I need it to do. Confusing interfaces drive me crazy.

How to Monitor Employees' Computer Activity

Whether monitoring security risks or checking an employee’s use of work time, there are several reliable ways to track a team’s computer activity, including software. Choosing a tool that works for the organization requires some forethought and planning, as well as a thorough vetting process that considers company policy and culture without eroding workforce trust and the management team’s credibility.

The Future of Contact Centers in Generative AI Era

Does your contact center give you what you need to solve your customers’ problems or increase agent efficiency? A contact center with the traditional system can limit customers’ ability to find answers and solve problems autonomously while also adding to agents’ woes. Built on top of Generative AI, a contact center helps transform the customer service experience by making contact centers and their agents more efficient.

How to Choose the Right AI Vendor for your Enterprise

The emergence of Generative AI pushes for rapid adoption of AI like no other technological innovations in recent times. Everyone wants to use Generative AI for its reasoning, logic, and problem-solving skills independent of human oversight. The wave of opportunities Generative AI brings is clear evidence that AI or GenAI would take very little time to become mainstream. Companies want to train or build proprietary models for various business use cases.

Engineering team structure essentials: Building, evaluating, and improving

The success of a firm can be determined by the efficacy of its engineering team structure in the ever-changing realm of technology. It’s not just about putting together a team of gifted people; it’s about composing a symphony in which every player contributes vitally while maintaining harmony with the others. This blog explores the complexities of creating an effective engineering team organization, including its significance, essential elements, guiding concepts, and useful tactics.

Zendesk + Ultimate: Setting a new standard of service with AI agents

Zendesk announced today that it will acquire Ultimate, an industry-leading provider of service automation, to deliver the most complete AI offering for customer experience (CX) in the market. The latest CX Trends data shows that unprecedented demand for AI is driving up the speed and frequency of customer engagement. In this new era of AI-powered CX, AI agents can push beyond traditional bot capabilities to help brands transform service into a competitive advantage.

9 Surprising Ways to Encourage Employees Back to the Office

The more regularity your employees show, the more work and productivity you get. However, sometimes you get the complete opposite, which is irregularity. Sometimes, even if you get your employees back to the office, they lack the motivation and enthusiasm to work. There can be various reasons behind this and it’s essential to solve this problem, especially in the digital era, where employees can easily get distracted. One solution is to use a screen tracker such as DeskTrack.