Google’s Work Insights helps businesses better understand how they work

At an event in Tokyo, Google today announced the launch of Work Insights, a new tool that gives businesses more insights into how their employees use the company’s G Suite productivity tools and how teams collaborate using those tools. In addition, Google is also launching its investigation tool for helping business better secure their data […]

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Pinstriped is a service that’s built to make meetings more productive — and it’s on sale

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone finds long meetings absolutely abhorrent. A supposedly brief meeting that has been stretched on for hours because your co-workers can’t stop babbling? That’s basically the bane of everyone’s existence.

An easy solution? Pinstriped Premium.

Designed to keep your meetings on course, Pinstriped helps you completely streamline the entire process. It lets you create a structured and timed agenda, and organize content in talking points, files, and links — all of which you can send to involved parties, so everyone comes to the meeting well-prepared. Should you agree upon decisions and action items while the meeting is ongoing, you can easily add them in the same file. And when the meeting has adjourned, you already have a readymade follow-up email you can send to everyone with just a single click. Read more…

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Millennials aren’t entitled. Workplace culture has changed and employers need to adapt.

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You’ve seen the headlines. Millennials are “entitled” at work. We’re the “Me Me Me Generation,” and, apparently, we want “success on a plate.” But, maybe it’s time for employers to take a cold, hard look in the mirror and ask themselves this: Are you as receptive as you could be to the skills and ideas that millennials are bringing to the table? 

Given that 35 percent of the workforce will consist of millennials by 2020—and a further 24 percent will be Gen Z workers—it’s time to start ditching the negative epithets, and start embracing this generation’s assets at work.  Read more…

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This music app claims to increase your productivity by 400%

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When it comes to modern company culture, distraction is the name of the game. From ping pong tables to office dogs, there’s no shortage of things to grab your attention that isn’t, well, actual work. It can be really hard to stay focused sometimes — and you aren’t to blame. If you find it difficult to get things done in a timely manner, there are tools out there like Focus@Will that could help.

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Ex-Tinder employees launch professional networking app Ripple

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A team of former Tinder employees has launched a new professional networking app in a bid to make waves in the LinkedIn-dominated market.

Dubbed Ripple (nope, not the cryptocurrency), the mobile app was launched by a team of ex-Tinder folks, including former CTO Ryan Ogle.

According to TechCrunch, the iOS and Android app was backed by IAC’s Match Group, which owns Tinder, for an undisclosed sum — there are no other investors, apart from the founders.

“Professional networking is pretty terrible today,” wrote Ogle on Ripple’s news blog. “That was our consensus when we started reflecting on our own experiences with the networks out there today. Interfaces packed with ads, unwanted mail from recruiters and salespeople, and a lack of community.  Read more…

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