Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Projects don’t grind to a halt because people forget how to do their jobs. They stall because a file sitting in someone’s inbox hasn’t been signed yet. Maybe this sounds familiar: Your Gantt chart looks clean, standups are crisp, and everyone’s “on track.” But the project is quietly waiting on a contract, a change request, or a customer sign-off that lives in a PDF limbo between “sent” and “somewhere in their inbox.” The work is ready.

When you use visibility as a proxy for productivity, you end up managing appearances instead of outcomes. You reward those who stay late, not those who solve hard problems. You notice who’s physically nearby, not who’s quietly delivering impact. Over time, this creates distorted decisions, uneven performance reviews, and frustrated high performers.

Proxy attendance (aka buddy punching) at the workplace happens when one employee clocks in or out for another. It inflates payroll, creates compliance risks, and weakens trust. The most effective fix for this is automated, login-based office attendance tracking software or purpose-built employee monitoring software for office teams that ties time to individual user sessions.

Project accounting software is software that tracks revenue, costs, and profitability by project, so you can see budget vs actuals and margin in real time. It combines time tracking, expenses, billing, and reporting so delivery and finance can agree on what a project is actually costing.

For the past couple of years, AI in product development has largely been an individual sport. A designer generates mockups. An engineer autocompletes code. A PM drafts a brief. Useful — but isolated. The collaborative muscle that makes great products hasn’t been getting the workout it needs. That’s starting to change. And analyst firm Constellation Research just put a stake in the ground about why it matters.

Many companies slow down their productivity and profitability by using outdated manual data entry. These seemingly small admin tasks lead to a number of hidden costs that can affect your entire organization. This problem typically arises from businesses using multiple disconnected tools.

At FOSDEM 2026, Denise R. S. Almeida (Head of Policy & Compliance at Element and Data Protection Officer for the Matrix.org Foundation) presented a practitioner perspective on the recently proposed Digital Omnibus.

When Courtney Blocker joined Trackforce as Director of Global Support in November 2024, he was hired to help scale support for growth. What he found was a familiar problem: plenty of data, but no clear, shared view of what was happening right now.

Do you know that 38% of globally used monitoring software uses stealth mode? But why are companies shifting to undercover observation from regular monitoring? Let’s find out the reason behind it—

Let’s learn what and how hidden mode employee monitoring protects company data and benefits a business—