Tag: microsoft teams

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.

Microsoft makes a push for third-party apps, Unum tackles employee mental health, Aon survey reveals back to office plans and more digital workplace news.

In a push to get more app developers building for Teams, Microsoft is opening up its APIs, Teams Store, and tools to what it calls collaborative apps.

The tools, practices and platforms that enabled businesses to remain productive in the middle of a pandemic will need to be adapted to the next phase of work.

Job activity picked up in Q1, IBM upped its AI product game, ServiceNow made an acquisition, Appian, VMWare and ControlUp announce new features and more news.

Highly effective teams work "in the flow," interacting and reciprocating at a high-level of intensity with their colleagues.

This week, Microsoft outlined its future in AR and VR at Ignite, Google expands Workspaces, while BlueJeans makes Teams meetings better. All that and more.

IT struggles with digital transformation, the CEO of Goldman Sachs labels remote work 'an aberration' and more in this week's news byte.

Employees aren’t willing to trade compensation for location, contingent hiring gets attention and edtech investment accelerates. That and more HR tech news.

HR tech companies target acquisitions to improve user experience and deliver workforce insights. Recruiters integrate with Teams and more HR tech news.

Although it's possible to create a centralized digital workplace, we now need to take retrospective steps around governance, naming conventions and approval.

Microsoft cannot win the collaboration crown until it redefines success from making online collaboration bearable to actually making it great.

The best collaboration and communication platforms enhance and improve employee experience, not just ensure access to tools and software.

Throwing people into a video call and hoping it will inspire creative output is a poor replacement for actual team work.

Microsoft Teams could accelerate workflow learning. Before diving in, clearly identify outcomes and how technology can support them to ensure success.

Microsoft Teams Together mode is a response to new expectations around how tools like these can help organizational culture thrive and evolve in the remote era.

Third-party add-ons are addressing some of the current pain-points for Microsoft Teams, much as they filled in the gaps with SharePoint intranets in the past.

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.

With so many teams working remotely, one question once again rears its head: how do we break the email habit?

Perhaps now is the time to think less about "getting more stuff done" and concentrate instead on "stuff worth doing."