Facebook’s first user conference featuring its enterprise collaboration tool, Workplace by Facebook, was by all accounts a success.
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Facebook Gives Workplace Added Muscle, Google Plus Isn’t Going Anywhere, and More
While most of the enterprise collaboration and digital workplace chatter over the past few months has been about Slack and Microsoft Teams, Facebook made a comeback this week, despite recent data breaches and ongoing concerns about data privacy.
Continue reading...Why Digital Workplace Apps Are Not Producing Great Customer Experiences
Recent research from Gartner underscores something many digital workers have suspected for quite some time. At least 84 percent of consumers across all industries say their experiences using digital tools and services fall short of expectations.
Continue reading...5 Types of Apps That Digital Workplaces Need
It goes without saying that having the appropriate technologies in place to enable communication between employer and employee as well as employee and employee is key to a productive digital workplace. However, it's not about the number of technologies implemented, but rather their effectiveness.
Continue reading...Are Your Digital Workplace Tools Empowering or Distracting?
The need to improve the employee experience and retain top talent has never been more critical. Yet technology, in some ways, has made it more difficult because companies have too many tools to communicate with employees.
Continue reading...Is Virtual Reality Set to Disrupt The Digital Workplace?
Last year, Walmart introduced virtual reality (VR) to the world of employee training and development by using the technology to upgrade training at Walmart Academies across the US.
Continue reading...Collaboration Is Key to Distributed Team Success
Collaboration in the digital era is essential for companies looking to boost employee productivity — but it comes with a few barriers.
Continue reading...7 Obstacles to Enterprise Collaboration and How to Fix Them
At the end of last year, the Gallup State of the Global Workplace report, showed that 85 percent of employees are not engaged at work. The economic consequences of this global situation are approximately $7 trillion in lost productivity, the report concludes.
Continue reading...Slack Buys Astro Email App, Identifying the Culture Gap, More News
With all the focus on Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. it almost slipped under the radar that Slack has been busy building out its functionality again, this time with the acquisition of email app provider Astro.
Continue reading...4 Microsoft Ignite Announcements Aimed at Improving the Digital Workplace
Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO of Microsoft four years ago, the focus of the company has broadened considerably.
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