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There’s no one way to do great work. Your stakeholders need a timeline while your team uses Kanban. Your workshop needs to land across languages. Your work lives in more than one tool. AI is accelerating all of this. Everyone’s figuring out how AI fits into their workflow — experimenting with new ways to create, collaborate, and use existing context. Which means your tools need to bend, not lock you in. This month’s updates give you the flexibility to get great done, your way.

As Q4 budget planning hits full stride, IT leaders face a familiar issue: The pressure to do more with less while simultaneously preparing for transformative initiatives like AI adoption. But before rushing to fund the next wave of innovation, there’s a more fundamental question to answer: Is your current tech stack helping or hindering your ability to execute? The answer, for most enterprises, is uncomfortable.

How to prevent productivity dips when managers take time off—using systems, not supervision.

Switching search engines isn’t something most people think about. For many, “searching the web” has simply become “Googling,” a habit formed years ago and rarely questioned. But Ecosia, the Berlin-based search engine that invests 100% of its profits into climate action, is challenging that default.

The more engaged employees you have working for you, the higher your productivity and profitability. So, let us ask you a question: do you think that you have maximum employee engagement in your organization, or do you know how engaged and dedicated your employees are towards their work? Well, most of you answered the former. That’s why you are searching for proven ways to boost worker engagement and haven’t found any that work for you. If so, you are at the right place.

Our product is built through close teamwork and a strong focus on solving real challenges for our customers. One of the people driving this work is Rait Tuulas, our Head of Product for AI initiatives. Rait joined Scoro as a Product Manager in 2021 and now helps shape our product vision while teaching new skills to our AI-powered companion, ELI. In this Q&A, Rait shares what his days look like as Head of Product, how his role has grown, and what makes Scoro’s Product Engineering culture special.

A few months ago, our team hit a strange wall! Everyone was working hard, but we still could not see the kind of progress we expected. I can still remember how frequently we stretched the deadlines. Yet, our team was getting tired of meeting them. Then, we took an initiative to implement the productivity models to increase our team's productivity. Can you guess the outcome? Within months, we were able to reach our goals days before the deadlines.

I used to believe my career growth was defined by one thing - performance reviews. Every 6 months, I’d wait for someone else’s evaluation to tell me whether I was doing well or falling short. A single performance review meeting decided how I worked, I contributed, and so much more. By then, I knew that there definitely is a better progress measurement system! Truth to be told, my performance review came too late for me to act on it.

Your employees regularly talk about your company, for better or worse. Every social media post, every coffee chat with a friend, every LinkedIn comment shapes how the world sees your brand. The question isn’t whether your people have influence — it’s whether you’re helping them use it intentionally.

AI promises a radical leap in productivity. There is evidence that, on an individual level, this promise is being delivered. Employees are completing tasks in minutes that took hours just three years ago. This has fueled massive economic optimism, projecting labor cost savings of up to 25% and potentially affecting almost 10% of current GDP over time. However, this stunning individual acceleration has yet to show up in the bottom line.