If you’re like the average knowledge worker, you check email and IM every 6 minutes. An alarming 40.1% of your day is spent multitasking with communication tools, the dangers of which are well established. And you use 56 different apps and websites per day, switching between them nearly 300 times.
Can anyone say “digital work crisis”?
By Richard Whitehead | Director of Operations, Product & Technology at Workfront
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Ever wonder what effect Thanksgiving has on work?
At Workfront we’re constantly analyzing work management data to best help our customers optimize their workday. With this data on hand for their company,
By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications
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One of the enduring lessons of the classic 80s film Back to the Future, besides the importance of standing up to the Biffs of the world, is that any efforts to alter the past will wreak havoc on the future. And the fact that
By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Workfront
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It’s difficult to overstate the effects of the digital revolution. Technology continues to drastically transform the way we interact, communicate, shop, bank, consume entertainment, earn money, work, and experience
Citibike, EasyBike, MyByk, Bycyklen, Xianbicycle. If you visit any major city around the world, you’ll likely see a bike-sharing program.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in certain major Chinese cities. As we’ve written about previously, venture capitalists recently saw a massive opportunity for
By Alex Shootman | CEO at Workfront
Note: This post pulls from Done Right, a leadership book from Workfront CEO Alex Shootman.
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“Forget about asteroids coming out of the sky to end civilization as we know it. ... When you’ve done this project before, what’s most likely to go wrong?”
That’s
By Scott Duehlmeier | Senior Manager of Communications at Workfront
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When the Boston Red Sox recently won the World Series — for the fourth time in 15 years, if you’re counting — they had my full attention. I was especially focused during Game 5. Whether or not that had anything to do with
Now more than ever, it's essential for businesses to use effective digital collaboration tools.
Have you noticed there are several times during the work week where the office just seems empty? All of the sudden, you look up from your computer and notice you are the only one there. It’s not that
Regardless of where you work, you’re likely racing to digitize your processes across departments, from sales to finance to customer support and beyond. Since digitization saves time and money, it’s without question the right direction to head in, which is why companies are spending $1.3 trillion
“Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated,” said Elon Musk back in April, describing the company’s inability to hit weekly production targets for their Model 3 vehicles, resulting in a significant production shortfall.
Musk was forced to
By Alex Shootman | CEO at Workfront
Note: This post pulls from Done Right, a leadership book from Workfront CEO Alex Shootman.
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Let me tell you a cautionary tale about a great business that embarked on bold plans only to see them fail. After all, the best type of mistake to learn from is
By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Workfront
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Picture it: an international product launch event at the Plaza Athenee in Paris, with media and key buyers in attendance. Reporters flown in from around Europe and the U.S. A perfect room block at the historic hotel,
