Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

With COVID-19 restrictions slowly easing in several parts of the world, many businesses are preparing to welcome employees back into the office. However, you first need to ensure your workplace is well-equipped to tackle the several challenges brought by the pandemic. And for that, you need a back to work checklist. Creating and implementing a well-thought-out checklist will ensure you’ve considered every challenge and prepared for any possibility.

Overworking reduces employees’ productivity levels, and this makes it bad for business. Research shows that there is a correlation between overworking and the productivity level of an employee. Besides, overworked employees usually perform poorly in their duties. Many studies show that workers’ productivity level is higher when they work for less than 40 hours per week instead of working more than 50 hours per week.

There’s no denying the key role project deliverables play in completing projects on time, on budget, and with minimal friction. They help set stakeholder expectations, instruct your team members, and provide you with a step-by-step action plan for achieving your project’s goals. When you consider their wide-reaching implications, it becomes clear that you can’t afford to coast by with only a surface-level understanding of these critical project elements.

The way customers expect to interact with businesses has changed. Service has moved from customers calling at the first sign of trouble to wanting to communicate with businesses on more convenient digital channels they’re already using in their personal lives—email, live chat, and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Customers also expect support to be available 24/7 via self-service and AI solutions such as chatbots.

As organizations reimagine the future of work and the hybrid workplace, the employee digital experience will emerge as a key component to maintaining company culture. The past year has led companies to create experiences for their employees that are personalized, engaging and built on connections with a source of truth.

In the last few months, we have been working on a new Apps framework for developers. The idea behind this framework is to make it easier for more developers to integrate external applications or their own applications into Mattermost. But wait a moment, don’t we have Plugins for that? Yes, but Apps provide some advantages to developers over Plugins.

Risk managers are facing possibly their biggest challenge in these pandemics hit times. Increasing regulatory pressures, complex demand from remote worker management, aligned with previously unseen volumes of data. This perfect storm of circumstances is driven by the complexity and demands of risk management, each with their own unique compliance and regulatory challenges. Across all sectors, radical transformation is required to address increasing internal and external challenges.

Toggl Plan is a project management software made for busy managers but tends to be lacking many of the features and functionality required for other team members to work productively which is why we put together a all inclusive list of Toggl alternatives you should take a look at.