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Digital Workplace
One Simple Practice Change Could Remove Hybrid Working Stress
Without the use of asynchronous channels of communications (other than email), technical exhaustion will escalate to impact an even larger proportion of staff.
Digital Workplace
What Happens When Your Digital Toolbox Becomes Infrastructure?
The complex set of tools that got us through the last two years of remote work is evolving into a digital workplace infrastructure. What does this mean for ROI?
Collaboration & Productivity
Most of Us Aren't in Too Many Virtual Meetings
To paraphrase Mark Twain: reports of excessive meeting attendance are greatly exaggerated.
Collaboration & Productivity
Internal Communications: Email vs. Chat vs. Discussion vs. Meetings
Digital communication use is like one large dating app. And the workplace is being forced to find perfect matches everywhere.
Collaboration & Productivity
Whatever Happened to Yammer?
You would be forgiven for thinking that Yammer had gone underground given the focus on Microsoft Teams and Viva. But Yammer is still very much in play.
Collaboration & Productivity
Internal Communicators Debate Yammer's Post on Behalf Of
Given appropriate controls, is there still a case for post on behalf of on an enterprise social networking platform?
Leadership
The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care
The articles on workplace burnout suggest most of us are suffering from overload, leading to potential burnout. But practicing self-care isn't the solution.
Collaboration & Productivity
Will Chat Replace Email?
The good news is our email usage is going down. The bad news? Chat is going up.
Leadership
Did Leaders’ Decision-Making Improve During Lockdown?
As well as our human biases, “system noise” can create as much, if not more errors in our decision-making. Remote work may have mitigated some of those effects.
Collaboration & Productivity
Make 'Work in Threads, Play in Chat' Your Mantra
Chat is designed for short, sharp communications. It is ephemeral, with no guarantee that it can be easily rediscovered in the context in which it was posted.
Collaboration & Productivity
Workplace Digital Transformation: How Will You Know if It’s Happening for You?
Highly effective teams work "in the flow," interacting and reciprocating at a high-level of intensity with their colleagues.
Employee Experience
Why Collaboration Analytics Is Crucial to the Employee Experience
If collaboration is the foundation for employee experience, how do we know if it’s working or not?
Collaboration & Productivity
Use and Misuse of Collaborative Technologies: Timeless Advice
A recent cleaning spree unearthed advice on how to use collaborative technologies — from 1999. And you know what? It still holds true.
Collaboration & Productivity
What We Can Learn From Nearly 9,000 Yammer Communities
A recent study of Yammer communities dispelled several previously held theories of how employees responded to the pandemic and working from home.
Collaboration & Productivity
Microsoft May Hold the Productivity Crown, But Productivity Reporting Is Ripe for Disruption
No organization is immune from a major market disruption. The larger an organization, the more prone it is to being blindsided.
Collaboration & Productivity
Working From Home: Are You Overworked, Overwhelmed or Overjoyed?
Workers are experiencing a range of emotions during the extended working from home period. But is all stress built the same?
Collaboration & Productivity
How Network Analytics Can Help Us Avoid Digital Fatigue
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with working from home. Here's how to make better use of our digital offices while cutting down on digital fatigue.
Collaboration & Productivity
One Bright Spot in COVID-19: The Rise of Self-Directed Teams
For any leader feeling sidelined by their now virtual teams: there's light at the end of the tunnel. But it requires acquiring new skills and adapting old ones.
Collaboration & Productivity
Measuring Our Way Back to a ‘New Normal’
Now that we've all settled into working from home, we need to place energy into the innovative activities required to adapt to the new normal of working.