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Webinar: Build vs Buy AI Co-pilot: Optimizing Employee Support

Are you struggling to keep up with employee support demands? In this webinar, we will discuss the potential of AI co-pilots to optimize your employee experience. Join us to learn about: The latest advancements in AI for automating employee support tasks. The key advantages and disadvantages of building your AI co-pilot solution versus buying a pre-built one.

How Effective Communication Tools Can Drive Team Productivity?

With the rise of remote and hybrid work, many of the things that were long held dear by companies, such as cohesiveness, loyalty, and a chain of command have all started coming apart, with massive long-term ramifications. This is because the traditional ethos of internal communication, which involved memos and emails, is no longer befitting this new age, bringing forth a string of new apps and solutions to pick up the slack “pun intended!” First up, why bother with communication tools at all?

Self-hosting keeps your private data out of AI models

Last week, Slack’s users realized that under the company’s terms of service, their private data could be used to train artificial-intelligence models. This came as a shock: chat messages convey sensitive company data, and LLMs(large language models, the category of AI models that includes ChatGPT) are known to leak the data they are trained on.

Life after Workplace: An insider's view on post-Workplace communication

Last week, Meta announced that it was deprecating Workplace, its all-in-one communication platform and first-ever B2B SaaS offering. Since the announcement, many companies — including Simpplr— have presented themselves as candidates to replace Workplace. Understandably, there are many businesses out there that rely on Workplace that will now be looking for an alternative platform.

Top 4 benefits of police live chat to know about

Effective communication between the police and the public is fundamental to maintaining community safety and fostering trust. However, traditional channels of communication, such as calls or in-person meetings, present challenges like long wait times and restricted accessibility. Considering these problems, law enforcement agencies have begun integrating modern means of communication, including live chat, to revolutionize communication with the public.

6 Productive things to do: Gain More and Lose Less

It’s not always obvious what kills your productivity or even goes beyond that to become a part of toxic productivity. According to a CareerBuilder survey, about 75 percent of employers say that more than two hours of efficient work are lost every day. It may get difficult to strike the balance between creating a collaborative environment and respecting the need for focus. Sometimes, the balance is disrupted so much that it leads employees toward toxic productivity.

Need an alternative to Workplace by Meta? Our #1 intranet platform has you covered.

Bummed about Meta’s recent announcement that it’s shuttering Workplace and recommending Workvivo as an alternative? Don’t be. While it might feel like the impending shutdown leaves you in a lurch, you don’t have to go from bad to worse. This is an opportunity to upgrade to a No. 1 intranet platform purposefully designed to enhance the employee experience.

5 process map templates to document, streamline, and optimize your processes

Inefficient processes carry a big price tag for businesses. Formstack’s State of Digital Maturity report found that 51% of U.S. workers spend at least two hours a day on repetitive or inefficient tasks. That translates into an estimated $14,560 per employee per year that could be invested in growth. One of the best tools for streamlining efficiencies (and banishing inefficiencies) is a process map.

Management by objectives (MBO): Definition and process

Management by objectives (MBO) is a strategic approach to increasing company performance by aligning company and team objectives. In this article, we’ll explain how the MBO process works and some pros and cons of using the MBO model. The idiom “It takes a village” refers to the idea that success stems from collaboration. As a project manager, you experience this firsthand. You rely on your village—or your team—to complete projects.