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How the revenue team at Asana saved $100k a year by automating workflows

When Steven Borobio-Bennett, APJ Programs and Operations Leads at Asana, starts his day, his Slack inbox is already full. Reps and partners from across the region come to him when something needs attention—a deal question, an escalation, a process issue that needs a fast answer. The messages never stop. Steven is the expert they need, but he’s only one person. And when response time slowed down to days, deals slowed down with them.

Employee Satisfaction Statistics 2026: What the Numbers Tell Us (And What They Can't)

Just imagine. You can work from anywhere. Your employer trusts you to manage your schedule. Meetings are productive instead of exhausting. At the end of the day, you close your laptop feeling fulfilled rather than drained. Your manager supports your growth. Your personal goals align with your professional path. The career ladder feels stable enough that you don’t constantly worry about what comes next.

How Culture Amp Is Reshaping How They Build with AI

94% of Culture Amp's engineers use AI tools. 81% say it makes them faster. But only 48% say it makes the work higher quality. That gap is exactly what this session is about. At Canvas 26 Sydney, Rhiannon Gaskell and Eric Grigson share what Culture Amp learned from six months of research into AI and engineering productivity — and how those findings are guiding a deliberate shift toward agentic AI across their entire product organisation.

Stop! Don't Buy an HR AI Tool Before Watching This

Buying an HR AI Tool? Don't sign the contract until you've asked these 5 critical questions. Many companies invest in an HR chatbot or AI HR assistant only to realize later that it doesn't integrate with their HR systems, takes months to deploy, or simply answers questions instead of automating HR workflows. In this video, you'll learn the 5-point checklist every CHRO and HR leader should use before choosing an HR AI solution.

Atlassian's guidelines for writing with AI

AI is a helpful tool but, without guardrails, its writing can fall flat. We joke about AI tells like em-dash overuse and “it’s not X, it’s Y,” but issues with over-reliance on AI writing go deeper. On Atlassian’s Brand team, these areas are top of mind. We want to move fast with AI but still put out content that is useful, fun to read, and trustworthy.

Managing Your Cloud Hosted Rocket Chat Workspace

Rocket.Chat offers premium and dedicated cloud-hosting services so you can get your workspace running quickly, without the need to handle infrastructure yourself. Using Rocket.Chat's Cloud portal, you can view and manage your workspaces. If you are facing issues with your cloud-hosted workspace, you may need to restart it. In this video, you will learn how to restart your cloud-hosted workspace via the Cloud portal. Additionally, this video shows you how to update the workspace version from the Cloud portal.

Slack vs Zoom: Collaboration Tools Compared

Communication is just not simply talking to people anymore; it involves doing things with people around you, physically or with a video call from a person on the other side of the earth. A variety of choices in communication tools make you sail smoothly throughout the day or turn any task into an uncomfortable juggling act. Slack and Zoom rank among popular choices that will get people connected and forward. Although both help communications flow, that’s pretty much where the commonality stops.

Kanban vs Scrum: Which Agile Framework Is Right for Your Team?

Kanban and Scrum are both agile frameworks used to manage work, but they solve different problems: Kanban is a continuous-flow system built around visual boards and work-in-progress limits, while Scrum is a structured, sprint-based framework with fixed roles, ceremonies, and time-boxed iterations, and the right choice depends on whether your team's work arrives unpredictably or can be planned in advance.