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Why You Should Be Using Timesheets for Exempt Employees

Timekeeping has become a critical business process for many companies today. Maintaining detailed employee timesheets offer tremendous benefits ranging across industries and business functions. However, employers often face confusion and uncertainty when it comes to using timesheets for exempt employees. According to the US Department of Labor, these are salaried professionals who aren’t eligible for minimum wage or overtime pay.

How Can You Evaluate A Developer's Work?

The world is indeed a global hub, as different parts of it are closely knitted together. Regardless of your location, technology has helped bring the world closer together and forced us to interact despite our boundaries and differences. Through technology, our diversity has been harnessed to produce amazing results in various projects.

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Remote possibility: how to help remote staff achieve better work-life balance

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically altered working experiences and what we consider to be normal. Almost every industry has been affected and businesses were forced to scramble to find ways of operating at such a difficult time. Things have begun to improve, and we may be through the worst of the pandemic, but it has had a lingering effect.

Rules for Engagement: What I Learned From Leading Over 200 Meetups

After more than a year of working from home, many people are suffering from digital fatigue. And while online meetings can have plenty of drawbacks, great leaders like Jurgen Apello have turned these challenges into opportunities for innovation. As an entrepreneur, author, and organizational agility expert, Jurgen has successfully led 230 online workshops in just six months, helping leaders accelerate lean and agile business growth. He accomplished this amazing task by turning his traditional in-person workshops into online, self-paced programs in Miro and Zoom. Learn how Jurgen inspires connection and co-creates as a team during online meetings and workshops.

Making Meetings More Human With Miro and Zoom

Leaders from Miro and Zoom discuss the evolution of online meetings over the past year, and look ahead at the future of team collaboration. Learn best practices for bringing your Zoom meeting to life, and see how to use Miro and Zoom together to solve video call challenges. Plus, you’ll get an exclusive look at new Miro features for facilitators that will transform your online meetings and workshop experience.

Productivity and Profitability: How Disruption Creates Opportunity in Professional Services

If we look at history, disruption is not a new phenomenon. Repeating patterns of massive disruption have occurred regularly. Today's digital revolution is not unlike major phases of disruptions of the past, such as the agricultural revolution and the development of canals and railways. Technological progress, along with the globalisation of trade and demographic changes, help to spread these revolutions to every sector of the economy.

How To Leverage Workflow Automation Software

Workflow automation software has the potential to be a complete game-changer for teams that lack efficiency. To drive productivity and squeeze more value from the talent on your team, you must have the right systems in place. With the power of workflow automation software, you can unlock the potential of your team and improve customer experiences.

What we can learn about productivity and focus from a cognitive neuroscientist and high-performance psychologist

We live in a distracting world. Mobile devices, apps, ads, and our natural environments constantly divert our attention. For example, according to the Anatomy of Work Index, workers are switching between an average of 10 apps 25 times per day, hurting focus and productivity. To share practical tips for achieving greater focus and flow in a distracting world, we brought a powerful duo together at our recent Focus & Flow Summit: cognitive neuroscientist Dr.

How to optimize your knowledge base for SEO

Instead of making your customers wander through the pages of Google, optimizing your knowledge base will help them find information fast – a huge advantage when it comes to meeting your customers’ needs. If your knowledge base isn't optimized for search engines, you’re losing a large number of potential new customers. Moreover, you’re missing out on the opportunity of enabling your existing customers to self-serve.

The 10 best communication apps for delivering great customer service

In the early 2000s, the thought of companies connecting with customers over instant messaging would have seemed ludicrous. But in 2021? That’s the norm. According to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2021, messaging channels like WhatsApp and Facebook are becoming new consumer favorites. Nearly a third of customers said they messaged companies over communication apps for the first time in 2020.