I recently spoke with Michael Pryor, one of the founders of Trello, about what it takes to keep a widely dispersed workforce effective, productive, and engaged. If you don’t know about Trello yet (despite there being 25 million registered users), it’s a collaboration tool that uses moveable tiles (“cards”) much
More and more, businesses are getting rid of the servers in their office and migrating their entire technology infrastructure to the cloud. In fact, according to a Technavio report, the global virtual desktop market is expected to grow at a pace of 11% year over year through 2020.
It’s 2017 – anyone can work from anywhere at any time on any device now, right?
Millennials might be the largest generation in the U.S. workforce, but they certainly aren’t the most engaged. According to Gallup, only 29% of millennials are engaged at work. And this isn’t a group that will remain passive about their disengagement, either; a full six out of ten are actively seeking
There’s some trouble lurking beneath all this remote access technology. Thanks to advancements in cloud computing and solutions like virtual desktops, it’s increasingly easy for us to “work anywhere.” This level of mobility has serious appeal across industries – attorneys can bill from a cabin in the woods, caregivers can
As originally published in the American City Business Journals. As more and more businesses incorporate remote workers into their team, the question we’re forced to answer is how we can best keep these employees connected. “Connected,” of course, has two meanings: technical and cultural; having the right tools in