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Pros and cons of employee monitoring: is it the key to higher productivity?

Would your team be more productive if you knew exactly how they spent their work hours? You hire talented people because you trust them to do their jobs well. But how can you tell if they’re truly focused on their work—or if hours are slipping away on distractions? What if you could track productivity, ensure accountability, and eliminate time-wasting, all while giving employees the flexibility and autonomy they need to do their best work?

How to Write an Objective Summary: A Step-by-Step Guide

Imagine skimming through a five-page report when all you really need is a few key takeaways. Frustrating, right? Now flip it—what if you’re the one writing, and your audience just wants the essentials? That’s where an objective summary comes in. It’s not about opinions or fancy words; it’s about clarity.

Employee monitoring: Pros, cons, types, tools

Employee monitoring can be tricky. You need to strike a balance between your company’s need to monitor employee activity and an employee’s right to privacy. That’s why, while there are several ways to monitor employees, you need employee-friendly solutions that work for your company’s specific requirements. In this article, we’ll explain what employee monitoring is, its benefits and drawbacks, and five types of monitoring solutions.

What is a project management office (PMO)?

If your company is struggling to collaborate, feeling disorganized, or implementing a major change, PMO can help set and maintain organizational processes across the entire business. Learn how your teams can use a PMO for better cross-collaboration and project management. Every organization reaches a stage of growth where teams start doing things a little differently.

6 techniques for accurate project estimation

Project estimation helps project managers and stakeholders get a sense of how long a project will take, what kind of resources are needed, and what deliverables will be required for project completion. In this article, learn six different strategies for how you can accurately estimate key aspects of your next project. When you’re cooking dinner for your family, you have a small group of hungry people wondering when it’s time to eat.

How to get organized: 17 tips that actually work

Getting organized can help you ‌be more focused and happier in the workplace. If you’re not an organized person, don’t worry—organization is a skill that can be learned and honed over time, using practical techniques and tools like digital to-do lists, automations, and templates. This article shows you the benefits of being organized and outlines 17 actionable tips to get more organized today.

6 tips to use portfolios, Asana's best-kept secret for cross-project planning

Use portfolio dashboards to automatically create custom charts and visualize performance across every initiative in your portfolio. So you work on many projects, and need a way to manage and track progress across initiatives. Sound familiar? If it does, you’re in luck. Asana’s handy—and way too often underutilized—portfolios feature is designed specifically to help with this problem.

What is the project management triangle and how can it help your team?

The project management triangle visualizes the problem of “triple constraints”—the need to balance scope, cost, and time in order to maintain a high-quality final product. Every project manager who has known the frustration of trying to keep their team productive with too little time, not enough budget, and an impossibly large scope has experienced the project management triangle in action.