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Quiet Mode: Setting Boundaries at Work with Technology
The traditional office environment — crowded with cubicles and clunky desk phones — is no longer the norm. The emergence of digital transformation has created a world where work is no longer a place, but an act ...
February 04, 2020
Ask the Fuzer: Why is Work-Life Balance Important?
In a hyperconnected, always-on workforce, work has become less of a place, and more of an action. As we see IT leaders integrate technologies like cloud communications and collaboration solutions, flexibility a ...
January 21, 2020
Top 4 Traits of an Effective Team
Over the past decade, the definition of team has continued to evolve. Once, a team was made up of colleagues in neighboring cubicles, catching up every so often at the water cooler. Now, teams are often blended ...
December 06, 2019
3 Ways Cloud-Based Unified Communications Can Help with Recruitment
Note: This post originally appeared on Bullhorn's staffing blog. The exciting pace of the modern workforce proves that the future of work is rapidly growing and the need for tools to match this new wav ...
November 22, 2019
Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device: Key Takeaways from Yamaha's Digital Transformation Story at Gartner IT Symposium
This week, more than 9,000 IT leaders swarmed Orlando for Gartner’s annual IT Symposium and Xpo. The event focused on the strategic trends shaping the future of IT including digital transformation, artificial i ...
October 25, 2019
Remote Workforce 101: 10 Ways to Work Smarter When on the Road
In an increasingly distributed and remote world, working from the road is a reality for much of the workforce. In the US, 3.4% of the population works remotely, while others are in industries that require a hea ...
September 24, 2019
Creating a Coworking Space That All Employees Will Enjoy
Coworking spaces like WeWork signify the future of workspaces for many companies. With over 800 locations in 124 cities and 36 countries, WeWork fully embraces being in accessible, centrally-located places to a ...
September 19, 2019
How To Run Productive, Inclusive Meetings
Every day in the United States, employees attend more than 25 million meetings. Stand-up meetings, team meetings, all-hands meetings, after-action meetings…all of these appointments fill employees’ calendars wi ...
September 03, 2019
5 Reasons To Join the Gig Economy
Future of work trends show that the workforce favors flexibility over the traditional 9 to 5. While flexibility includes working remotely it also means working independently, untethered to a specific corporatio ...
August 29, 2019
How the 4Fs Can Scale AI in the Workplace
No doubt that there is a digital workforce transformation taking place within the workplace. Companies looking to grow and thrive must take an introspective approach to address how to meet the demands o ...
August 13, 2019
How to Create a Work Environment So Remote Workers Don’t Have FOMO
Ever experience workplace FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)? The day that you couldn’t make it into the office ends up being the exact same day as an office-wide event and suddenly your social channels are li ...
August 06, 2019
Flex Summit: 2040
For the final Flex Summit session, our speakers imagined what the future of work will resemble in 20 years. Co-founder and VP of Product and Marketing for Ava Robotics, Marcio Macedo, introduced ...
July 23, 2019
Culture & Collaboration Trends: A Look Back at the Flex Summit
Our third session at Flex Summit focused on the critical cultural changes and collaboration practices needed to support successful flexible work. Flex Emcee Michael Hopkins moderated our final pane ...
July 16, 2019
Infrastructure and Technology for Flexible Work: A Look Back at Flex Summit
After discovering the global impact of the future of work during Flex Summit, we transitioned to addressing infrastructure by learning about the technology and policies needed to embrace flexible work. ...
July 09, 2019
Fuze Wins Q2 2019 Comparably Awards for Best Leadership Team and Best CEOs for Women
We are proud to announce that Comparably, a culture and compensation data platform, has once again recognized Fuze with two Q2 2019 awards, Best CEOs for Women and Best Leadership Teams. Award winners are based ...
July 03, 2019
Impact: A Look Back to Flex Summit
During our inaugural Flex Summit, we heard from distinguished thought leaders on their perspectives for the future of work. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing the insights and ideas we heard throughout t ...
June 26, 2019
How to Create an Engaged, Global Workforce
The digital era is transforming the modern workforce. Gartner’s latest Global Talent Monitor report on workforce trends observed a significant uptick in the number of employees planning to stay in their current ...
June 20, 2019
Productivity @ Work, Fuze’s First Communications Index
Today we released a new report, “Productivity @ Work: The Fuze Communications Index,” the first study of its kind that takes a detailed look at how people communicate and collaborate at work. The report highlig ...
June 18, 2019
Flex Summit is a Wrap! #Flex19
This week we hosted our inaugural Flex Summit, for leaders engaging in the future of flexible work! We kicked off the day, abuzz with excitement as speakers and attendees gathered at the Revere Hotel in Boston ...
June 07, 2019
Flex Summit Roundtable on The Future of Flexible Work
The Flex Summit is here and time is running out to be part of the premier event of leaders engaged in the future of flexible work. We sat down with some of the speakers to discuss their advice for business lead ...
June 05, 2019
Flex Summit Roundtable on Digital Transformation
Flex Summit is just one day away! Ahead of this week’s event, we sat down with some of our speakers and asked them to share their insights into digital transformation and what it means for business productivity ...
June 04, 2019
Flex Summit Roundtable on Flexible Workplaces
Flex Summit is just around the corner! Before our speakers take the stage, we connected with them to get their thoughts on coworking, productivity, and the future of work. Check out their responses below, and s ...
May 31, 2019
Here’s What You Need to Read Before Flex Part 2
We're officially less than two weeks out from Flex Summit, the destination summit on the future of flexible work. Over the past few months, we've been working hard to build an amazing collection of thought lead ...
May 23, 2019
Here’s What You Need to Read Before Flex Part 1
As we countdown the days until Flex Summit (click the link to snag tickets), here’s a curated reading list aligned to the day’s agenda and ahead of the innovative discussions you will hear on the future of work ...
May 22, 2019
Best Workforce Communication Modes
As the workforce changes, so must how we approach our jobs and our channels of communications. Our Breaking the Barriers 2020 report, highlights the differences in generational expectations when it comes ...
May 14, 2019
The One Month Countdown to Flex: The Top 5 Reasons to Join Us on June 5th
The Flex Summit is just one month away, which means time is running out to sign up for the premier future of work event. Since we announced the Flex Summit in February and released our exciting lineup of speake ...
May 07, 2019
World Voice Day: 12 Communications Stats Every Business Should Know
Today marks World Voice Day, an international celebration of the phenomenon of voice and the role that communication has played in shaping all aspects of the modern world. As leaders in business communicatio ...
April 16, 2019
The Line-up: Our Expert Speakers at Flex Summit
This June, Flex Summit will gather visionaries across technology, HR, operations, and management to discuss best practices in the future of distributed work. The event will dive into topics like productivity, A ...
April 11, 2019
Why IT leaders can't afford to miss the Flex Summit
The modern workforce requires enterprise leaders to pay attention to what’s old, what’s new, and what’s next for companies in the age of digital transformation. As CIOs and other IT leaders take on more demandi ...
April 09, 2019
The Art of Workforce Productivity in the Extended Enterprise
For many organizations today, the new norm is an extended enterprise made up of local and remote employees, contractors, and partners, accessing on-prem and cloud resources, across an array of devices. As Forre ...
April 05, 2019