Face-to-face time is vital for building meaningful workplace relationships, but the quality of those interactions – as opposed to sheer quantity – is what matters most.

By the start of 2024, only 33% of employees were engaged in their work and workplace. That’s a discouraging number, especially for companies actively looking for better ways to engage their workers. Does that sound like you? If so, have you considered employee engagement software? These platforms foster communication, boost collaboration, and make employees feel valued and involved.

Social networks are a huge part of our everyday lives, both at work and at home. It’s easy to get lost in the avalanche of social media updates. Before you know it, your whole workday has been consumed by unproductive web surfing, tweets, and posts. Nucleus Research found that 25 percent of US workers spent a minimum of two hours a day surfing the Internet. For that reason, many companies have blocked Twitter, along with Facebook, YouTube, and other social media websites at work.

As a SaaS startup team, you’ll have to choose a pricing model for your product at some point. This decision is crucial as it shapes the future of your brand, your marketing and your business. When we started our pricing strategy research we were choosing between freemium and free trial as these are the models our competitors use. However, when we dug deeper into the research, we were surprised to learn that there are actually dozens of different monetization strategies a startup can choose from.

In this article, I’m sharing the exact steps we took to get our Chanty website from 0 to almost 400K visits and from 0 to 10K leads in two years. I know, the numbers aren’t too impressive. It’s not like saying, “I got from 0 to 125 million visitors in a few months.” But hey, we are talking bootstrapped here, and many of the B2B SaaS consultants and founders I know would give their arms to see their 10K goal hits in their reports.

Loneliness at work has become a growing crisis. As people juggle remote, hybrid and in-person setups, feelings of isolation can creep in — even in busy environments. Creating meaningful connections in the workplace is key to fostering belonging and supporting both individuals and teams.

I’m fresh from the Ragan Future of Communications Conference, and I have to say it’s always refreshing to gather with other internal communicators. The unspoken sense of shared experience can be felt from the start.