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Secure business communications are essential for protecting sensitive information, maintaining customer trust, and reducing cybersecurity risks. As cyber threats continue to evolve, businesses need secure business communications to safeguard their internal and external conversations. From business emails and messaging platforms to file transfers and mobile devices, every communication channel can become a potential security risk if it is not properly protected.

Every IT leader has lived this moment. The week ended; everyone was visibly engaged, meetings happened, tickets moved, and projects progressed. Then someone asks, “What exactly got accomplished this week?” and the answer isn’t as clear as it should be. For service businesses, this is not a small gap. When work hours are not connected to project outcomes, small inefficiencies build up quietly, and they rarely stay small for long.

A new hire accepts your offer, but their laptop arrives late, application access is missing, and their manager assumes HR has handled everything. By the end of the first week, the employee is frustrated and HR is chasing five different teams. That disorganization affects more than the first-day experience. Gallup reports that only 12% of employees strongly agree their organization does a great job of onboarding, while many employees can take 12 months or longer to become fully effective in a role.

@mention an agent on any page and it creates, edits, and comments alongside your team. Through the Atlassian Rovo MCP, the same agents work from Claude, Cursor, or your IDE. Agents have been working in Confluence since we launched custom agents in May 2024, and teams now run more than 5 million agent invocations a month. In February alone, Agents saved Atlassian customers more than 200,000 hours.

Organizations nowadays have access to more workforce data than ever. Many organizations use employee surveillance software for tracking employee activity. This software usually tracks activity, work hours, screenshots, and online behavior. Such data is used by businesses to understand how employees spend their time. According to Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, the average employee receives 117 emails a day and is interrupted every two minutes by meetings, messages, or notifications.

Coalition operations depend on XMPP. NATO's Federated Mission Networking (FMN) builds on it, it is a standing requirement in coalition RFPs, and it has carried mission communications for more than 20 years. With release 8.7, Rocket.Chat federates with XMPP, so organisations can coordinate with every partner on the mission network from a single sovereign platform. This release is the first step in a larger build: native XMPP federation, engineered into the platform rather than bolted on.

Recognition works best when it doesn't ask people to leave where they already are. Say thank you in one app, redeem it in another, and the moment loses its shape before it ever lands. Most recognition programs were built as bolt-ons, sitting next to the intranet instead of inside it. That gap is where participation quietly stalls.

Compare time tracking software for finance and accounting teams, with a focus on accuracy, audit trails, and compliance: features, and how to choose.

Automatically track work hours, app usage, attendance, screenshots, and productivity to understand where your team spends time and improve workflow efficiency.

A reflection on building an enterprise product using AI agents, and what the data says about how we worked. The observation For the past few months we have been rapidly building an enterprise-wide, production-grade application that helps with employee compensation planning, management and communication. I compared what we built against a traditionally-built product to draw out insights about our new ways of working.