Philip Arkcoll

Return to the office, especially on a hybrid schedule, has several benefits for team collaboration and communication. It can be also disruptive for many teams if companies implement these strategies in haste. Here is one such case study where Return to Office did not have the initial impact the company was hoping for. Instead many of the trends from remote work were continuing on despite hybrid work. Putting numbers next to these trends helps the company understand the underlying issue better and resolve the key drivers.

Hybrid Working and its impacts have been a trending topic for many HR and business leaders. It affects the work culture, team collaboration, and even productivity. To gain more insights into the effect of remote working, David Green sat down with our CEO and Co-Founder, Phil Arkcoll to discuss how collaboration data and analytics can help companies understand how work is getting done and the trends we see in Remote and Hybrid work.

We are so excited to start our Coffee Chat series for our Work Analytics podcast with an interview with an esteemed expert in the field of People Analytics, Stela Lupushor. For those who don't know her, Stela has written two books on Hybrid and Remote work, teaches at New York University, and has been a practitioner in the field of HR analytics for more than 25 years. Please watch our interview below or read the transcript for details and great insights into the trends and key changes she is seeing in this fast evolving dynamic industry.

Track meeting effectiveness with 12 practical metrics (meeting load, focus time, recurring meetings, attendance, and more). Learn what to measure, why it matters, and how to improve outcomes.

Focus time - or the uninterrupted time available for individual work - has become increasingly more important for remote teams. This is especially true for knowledge workers that often need an average of 4 hours of focus time per day to complete their individual work.

The Worklytics dashboard is a new state-of-the-art reporting and analytics platform that converts disparate data from all of your collaboration tools into easy-to-use reports.

Amid persistently high inflation, volatile market conditions, and uncertainty on consumer demand and sentiment, companies are increasingly starting to freeze hiring. Teams are quickly realizing that they need to find ways to work more efficiently with limited resources. How do organizations work to adapt to these new challenges? Here are some metrics we’re seeing companies use to gain visibility into how their teams are working and to help optimize how they work and collaborate to get more done in an increasingly constrained environment.

In a recent study, we found that employees' sense of a positive work-life balance is highly correlated with the length of their workday. In fact, those who worked more than 10 hours per day were 2x as likely to report feeling like they don’t have a good work-life balance. This is often a tell-tale sign that employees may be at an increased risk of burning out.

With the rise of remote/hybrid work, managers and employees no longer have as many opportunities to communicate with their teams. This hasdriven many organizations to rethink their traditional surveys-driven employee listening strategies (active listening) by augmenting them with passive listening strategies. Learn more on how to adapt your listening strategies to the new reality.