Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Slack's latest report reveals how AI agents are transforming the workplace — and why businesses must adopt a digital labour platform to stay ahead.

Attendance and time tracking are a challenge for businesses, especially in hybrid or remote work mode. Employees often forget to log in on time, missed punches, proxy attendance, and manual errors can lead to miscalculations in attendance and payroll management. They can struggle with accuracy, compliance, and efficiency without any proper management system.

Your team wants to make an impact – they just need clarity on what’s actually going to move the needle.

Key Summary: Once, I was managing a remote team, and it was difficult to balance work and privacy. As a manager, I needed to track their progress. But I didn’t want them to feel like I was spying on them! That’s when I realized the key difference between monitoring vs. spying. Monitoring is about transparency. It tracks project progress, time use, and software activity. Employees know what is being monitored and why. So they feel supported rather than surveilled.

We were pretty happy to use Skype during the last decade. Skype has become synonymous with instant communication, just like Xerox became a term for photocopying. We’d ask people to meet on Skype and add our Skype names to the email signature. It’s also been a key part of our professional lives. But then, in 2013, Slack came along and changed the world of business communication.

Be honest: How often do you catch yourself saying, “I wish there were just a few more hours in the day?” It’s not because you’re procrastinating or being inefficient. You begin each day with a full schedule, solid goals, and a cup of coffee, but then—between urgent meetings and unexpected tasks time seems to slip through your fingers. By the end of the day, you’re left wondering where it all went.

Accurately tracking billable hours can make you go from less productivity to skyrocketing profitability like that. However, this is easier said than done. Well, not anymore. Welcome to my guide to saving time and money. In today’s blog, I will take you through the top 6 billable hours trackers in 2025 and provide more useful insights.

The data doesn’t lie—a good onboarding process leads to happier, more productive employees. But while onboarding can increase retention rates by 82%, only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job of onboarding new hires. Creating a smooth onboarding process is challenging, so it’s not surprising that some organizations fall short. But it doesn’t have to be that way.