Instant-messaging tools like Slack have become the primary way to collaborate in real time. These tools made remote work possible but have also contributed to burnout and mental-health issues. Some ...

The benefit of “remote work” is that it should enable greater freedom and flexibility — yet for many, it’s led to be even more inundated with communications, back-to-back meetings and extended working ...

As my co-founder and I roll into the eighth month of our “one-week visit” to Australia, it amuses me how a company so focused on meeting efficiency ended up being one of the strongest examples of ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In 2020, with the first coronavirus variants spreading, most of the world went remote. Digital tools like Zoom, Meet and Teams exploded ...

Chase is the Head of Remote at Doist, the remote-first company with teammates in 35 countries across all time zones, serving 40M+ customers. Clear and effective communication can be challenging ...

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The image used in this post is of a small group of students sitting in a room together, (seemingly) energetically talking about the issues at hand. This is an example of synchronous discussion—the ...

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The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.