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IT support has a familiar problem. An employee says, “I can’t access Salesforce,” but solving that request may involve much more than answering a question. Someone has to understand what access is needed, check whether the employee is eligible, collect missing information, trigger an approval, update an identity platform, record the request in the ITSM system, and tell the employee when it is complete. For years, service desk chatbots solved only the first part of that journey.

AI makes it quick and easy to turn rough notes into a clean, easy-to-read document. Job well done, right? Think again. Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab suspected that this professional veneer—what we call “AI polish”—makes it harder to spot foundational flaws and give feedback, so we tested it. We wanted to know: Does AI polish make it harder to identify problems in early drafts? How can we solve for this blind spot?

As an owner or managing director, you often assume ops responsibilities by default. But that’s a short-term solution. One that inevitably leads to problems and burnout as the business grows. And being overwhelmed often leads to rushing your first ops hire. Then, instead of being able to fix problems, your new team member gets stuck firefighting. Hire strategically instead, with our seven-step process.

The office perimeter is gone. Work now happens on laptops in living rooms, phones on home Wi-Fi, USB drives passed between desks, and screens left unlocked in co-working spaces. None of that sits behind the firewall your IT team spent years building. Most security budgets still protect the network far better than they protect the device at the edge of it, and that gap is where endpoint security risks quietly build up.

AI is absorbing the parts of your team’s work that used to prove someone was doing their job. If you manage a distributed team, that leaves a real question: what do you actually measure now, and how do you know it’s true? The location debate is already settled. US remote work has held steady at around 27% of the workforce for three years running, according to figures Liam Martin, co-founder of Time Doctor, cited in his opening keynote at Running Remote 2026.

ServiceNow AI is no longer just about Virtual Agent. Today, its AI stack includes Virtual Agent, Now Assist, AI Agents, AI Agent Studio, and Otto—covering everything from conversational self-service to autonomous task execution. For IT and HR leaders, the real question is not whether ServiceNow can use AI.

In July 2026, our community published 275 new templates to Miroverse. The submissions ranged from HR and strategy canvases to themed team retrospectives and discovery toolkits. Creators continue to collaborate with AI on the canvas to speed up planning and facilitation. Below, you’ll find the top templates and creators from July 2026, plus an AI workflow spotlight. For even more inspiration, explore our growing AI-Accelerated template collection.

Choosing IT help desk software is really a decision about how fast your employees get unblocked when something breaks. A slow, disorganized ticketing process means lost laptops sit unrepaired, password resets pile up in a shared inbox, and new hires wait days for basic access. IT help desk software fixes that by turning scattered requests into a tracked, measurable workflow.

Luware won Silver in the category Best Customer Service at the US Customer Experience Awards 2026, recognizing an approach we call “people over KPIs”. The idea is simple: most customer service teams are measured on speed and volume, but the outcomes customers actually value, a lasting fix and a relationship they trust, come from removing the pressure, not adding to it. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Idle time tracking software records periods of computer inactivity, helping managers identify workflow gaps, understand time usage, and improve productivity without unfairly judging employees.