Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches
According to SmartBrief, 28.57% of leaders have said that they distribute the workload very well among team members, with 61.9% of them saying that they do it well. Only 1.73% have admitted to doing a poor job.However, it’s easy to suspect that they haven’t been completely honest, because an unbalanced ...
Productivity • • 8 min read
Aboutpr24 GmbH is a full-service agency that offers a diverse range of digital services: web design, web development, graphic design, photography, marketing, online advertising, and above all, specialized WordPress solutions.As a tight-knit team of 20, pr24 GmbH is always looking to refine and grow their ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In February, we worked on External Calendars in ActiveCollab, Client Invoices and Estimates, and Team Timesheets.We weren’t any less busy in March, with the official ActiveCollab 8 rollout, revamped Time Reports, Client Invoices, and Recurring ...
Recaps • • 3 min read
According to Deloitte, 77% of workers have experienced burnout at their current job, with 51% of them going through it more than once. Let’s just say it right off the bat: people are overworked. Across all industries, ages, genders, and locations. Across the board. We’re not going to get into why ...
Productivity • • 11 min read
To boost team productivity, optimize capacity utilization rates, and master time management, you need data.Yet, gathering data can be overwhelming, especially if it’s all over the place. Scattered, inconsistent information makes reporting tedious and unreliable.On the other hand, if you have a single ...
Product • • 4 min read
eInvoicing is becoming mandatory for businesses registered and operating in the European Union. Germany, Romania, Belgium, Poland, and France have so far introduced eInvoicing regulations, requiring B2B invoices to be created and distributed in compliance with the EN 16931 standard.Even if your agency ...
Product • • 2 min read
As humans, we tend to be optimists. This can be a serious problem when creating project budgets. Instead of being rational, cautious, and precise, our perception gets clouded, making us think things don’t take as much time, effort, or money as they actually do in reality. But it’s not just our eternal ...
Growth • • 7 min read
Sometimes, a first impression is all that matters, simply because we tend to base our entire opinion of something or someone based on that first interaction. This is also known as the halo effect, and it plays a huge role in your agency’s client onboarding process.According to stats, 63% of customers ...
Growth • • 9 min read
Say hello to ActiveCollab version 8!Over the past couple of years, we've challenged ourselves to turn ActiveCollab into something more than a project management tool. We aimed to create a space where service businesses would manage all their work, people, clients, financials, and more.So we listened ...
Product • • 8 min read
Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In January, we worked on Events in Workload, eInvoicing, and a Project Progress Menu. February also brings interesting new things, including External Calendars in ActiveCollab, Invoices and Estimates in Companies’ Profiles, and improved Team ...
Recaps • • 2 min read
According to the numbers, your average employee spends 51% of the workday on tasks of little to no value. Also, that same average employee gets interrupted about 60 times during the day.And when you read similar stats about how employees are stressed and overworked, it all points to a paradox of sorts ...
Productivity • • 9 min read
Instead of looking for ways to increase the number of working hours in a day, what we should be doing is looking for ways to make better use of our time. According to a small experiment conducted by Steve Glaveski, author and founder of Collective Campus, switching to a six-hour workday increased the ...
Productivity • • 8 min read