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Want your distributed workforce to thrive? A new study reveals how leaders can make it possible.

Whether your distributed workforce engages in real-time or asynchronous work—or both—research points to three systems that support it all. Study abstract: Collaboration is critical to organizations and difficult when work is distributed. Prior research has indicated that when individuals are distributed, organizations respond by structuring their work to decrease reciprocal interdependence, reduce the complexity of tasks that individuals perform, or accept moderate inefficiencies.

What's New in Asana | April 2023

Welcome to the April edition of What’s New in Asana. First, apply multiple filters and sorts to help you quickly search for information within your project. Next, we’ve added more smart rules and widgets for integrations with Bynder, Notion, Confluence, and DocuSign so you can keep track of work across your tech stack. Finally, monitor key metrics at a glance in your portfolios. With custom field rollups, see the sum of custom fields across all projects, like budget, costs, and time. And like project Dashboards, create charts to get insights about the work within your portfolio.

A new study reveals how to solve perhaps the single biggest problem for work leaders

Ah, the “non-routine problem.” It’s arguably the single biggest type of problem one can run into at work. New research points to a solution. Research Summary — Solving non-routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation.

There's a contradiction at the heart of modern collaboration.

“Collaborative Intelligence is information that can diagnose problems in your organization, like which teams aren’t working well together or who’s overloaded with work.” Dr. Rebecca Hinds, Head of The Work Innovation Lab, will go in-depth on the effectiveness of Collaborative Intelligence at Asana Forward on March 28, 2023.

What's New in Asana | March 2023

Welcome to the March edition of What’s New in Asana! This month is all about Asana’s native time tracking. First, plan and monitor the time spent on different projects by tracking estimated and actual time on tasks. Manually enter time or start and stop a timer to record actual time spent on a task. With subtask rollups, the time you track on subtasks will automatically roll up to the parent task.