The benefits to employee wellbeing are obvious – but the well-intentioned laws could backfire. Here’s what leaders need to know.

As a Confluence user, you know the power of collaboration. Sharing information, ideas, and projects creates a work environment where everyone can contribute to the greater whole. And more and more people are concerned with creating collaborative work environments. As the Harvard Business Review put it, “Collaboration is taking over the workplace.” We’ve built Confluence to be the place for your team’s work, documents, and ideas, so that everyone can be on the same page.

Memos, post-its, endless meetings: these are a few of the ways you can slow down team productivity. You’re often much better off communicating ideas quickly and simply with diagrams. There are several great Confluence add-ons that help you easily create beautiful diagrams, including Confluence Diagramming by Creately, Gliffy, and Graphviz — that are intuitive, fast, and smart. They take care of creating and embedding simple, easy-to-use diagrams, so you can focus on what matters to you.

The long-held popular theory that learning styles help us consume and retain information isn’t backed by evidence. Here’s what modern education experts recommend instead to help adult learners succeed.