Employee engagement is the key to success and growth in a fast-paced work environment. Disengaged employees will hamper the workplace’s productivity, morale, and even the business’s health. Employers or managers should understand what a disengaged employee means, the causes, and how they get re-engaged with different strategies. A new Gallup report called “State of the Global Workplace” says that 85% of employees are either not engaged or actively disengaged at work.

With an updated canvas built to level-up your Miro experience, Intelligent Canvas is here to help teams get work done faster and more efficiently. The new Intelligent Canvas focuses on three key areas: Included as part of Intelligent Canvas are several new diagramming updates that will blow your current diagramming workflow out of the water. Think: less manual work, less hacking shapes, fewer complexities, faster creation, smoother experience. Sounds good? Let’s get into it.

As part of the new Intelligent Canvas, Miro users can now generate diagrams from text.

Most business owners hire virtual assistants to handle their administrative support, email marketing, and other non-core business activities efficiently. But with hundreds of sites offering virtual assistant services, how do you find the right one? To help you out, we’ll highlight the three key features to look for in a virtual assistant website and review the 24 best virtual assistant websites for finding skilled VAs. And as a bonus, we’ll also cover how you can monitor your VAs with ease.

In order to maintain complete oversight on your business operations, most businesses are put in a complicated situation where they have to maintain the delicate balance between security and employee privacy. While employee monitoring is key to protecting your business against data breaches and ensuring operational efficiency, it often raises concerns about privacy and trust among team members.

We know change can be tricky—especially when you least expect it. That’s why we’re looking ahead to a good change (we promise!) to the Teamwork.com platform that’s coming right around the corner. To cut right to the chase, we’ll be replacing the current task details page with an expanded view that includes a handy pop-out panel and a full-page experience.

The shift to hybrid work arrangements emanating from digital transformation initiatives, with some employees operating remotely and others from the physical workplace by organizations globally, radically changed how people conduct business. With employees scattered across different locations, it has become increasingly important for organizations to find ways to maintain their productivity levels and efficiency while ensuring that their workforce remains connected.

Before we discuss how to organize notes, let’s hear from Richard Branson, the successful entrepreneur who heads a global business empire. He once said that he made a note of everything that occurred to him each day. Clearly, it is an important skill—but after that, knowing how to organize your notes can make all the difference. Utilizing digital notes can be a practical and efficient method for staying organized.

Want to learn how to measure employee productivity in the IT industry? It’s no secret that measuring employee productivity is one of the hardest things to do these days. As there are so many variables to keep track of, determining how well an employee is performing can be a very confusing process for most businesses. And when you’re dealing with the IT sector, this can become even more challenging! But don’t worry.