Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

June 2024

Understanding Straight-Time Pay: A Complete Guide to Calculation

Understanding how employees are compensated is crucial for both employers and employees. Straight-time pay is a fundamental concept in payroll management, referring to the regular wages an employee earns for working their standard hours. This guide will explore what straight-time pay is, how to calculate it, its applicability to different types of employees, the legal regulations surrounding it, and the tools available to manage it effectively.

Unlocking Workplace Magic with Trust and Engagement with Aniisu K. Verghese, Founder of Intraskope

This episode features an interview with Aniisu K. Verghese, Founder of Intraskope, a boutique internal communications and personal branding consultancy serving global markets. In this episode, Shawn and Aniisu discuss inclusive internal communications, strategies for building organizational trust, and how AI is streamlining employee experience.

Introducing HEY for Families

Since HEY launched, we’ve heard from many of you who want to share all the goodness of HEY with the people in your family. We get it! We have partners, kids, and parents who would benefit from HEY, too. So, today we’re introducing HEY for Families — add up to 4 additional HEY accounts for just $179/year total! One person pays and invites everyone, but the accounts remain separate and private.

The link between neurodiversity and innovation

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” This quote, commonly attributed to Einstein, captures how each person has unique superpowers that, when cultivated, can unleash their full potential. In a similar way, when companies embrace a diversity of thought, skills, and perspectives among team members, innovation flourishes.

What is technical debt? How to pay it off (with examples)

Technical debt is the cost of additional work caused by choosing the quickest solution rather than the most effective solution. Though there are times when technical debt is worth it, it’s important that your team understands the positives and negatives of speedy decisions and how to manage rework in an efficient way. Product managers, programmers, and other stakeholders should carefully consider the trade-offs involved.

5 critical use cases to consider when migrating from Meta Workplace

Feeling stressed about the need to migrate from Workplace by Meta to another platform? Understandable. Finding the right fit for your organization is a BIG decision because your employee communications and experience platform impacts productivity, operational efficiency and more. We’re here to help with specifics on five use cases to consider for a smooth transition.

Enterprise social networking is dead! Long live unified employee communications platforms!

The demise of Workplace by Meta marks the latest casualty for enterprise social networking — a trend that’s time has passed. Organizations are now turning to all-in-one, employee communications and experience platforms powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to keep employees connected, informed and productive.

Transforming Customer and Employee Experiences with Freddy AI | Siddhartha Agarwal | Refresh2024 NYC

Join us for an enlightening session from Refresh 2024 in New York, where Siddhartha Agarwal, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Operations at Freshworks, delves into the transformative power of Freddy AI. Discover how Freshworks is revolutionizing customer and employee service solutions for companies of all sizes. In this video, you will meet Freddy AI and learn how.

Ryan McNamara: The REAL purpose of ops: A revenue and growth driver

Operations is a critical role within agencies today. But beyond the day-to-day, there’s a big opportunity to leverage this role as strategic driver of growth and efficiency. How can you develop both yourself as a leader and your agency to deliver better results? In this episode, Ryan McNamara, Head of Operations for Rise at Seven, highlights 3 key areas that every ops director should focus on: Financial rigor - what metrics you should be looking at and how often, to help you make strategic decisions.

Reverse groups & Swimlane order | New Release Overview

New Feature Release: Reverse Views Group & Swimlane Order! In our latest update, we're excited to introduce a highly requested feature: Reverse Views Group & Swimlane Order. This enhancement allows you to easily organize your data views, ensuring you can focus on the most relevant information for better visualization and usability.

How to use lists in Slack to plan team priorities

As you start planning for the next quarter, you might find that your team’s ideas and goals are scattered across channels, docs, and spreadsheets. With Slack lists, you can create a straightforward catalog of planned work, improve visibility across teams, and discuss priorities where you’re already working – in Slack! LEARN MORE: hhttps://slack.com/help/articles/27660660362131-Slack-lists--Plan-work-for-the-next-quarter.