In in the present day’s world of distributed groups, digital conferences are so ubiquitous, they’ve their very own subculture. You’ve most likely already mastered the waiting-for-others-to-join small discuss and have established your go-to digital backgrounds. In keeping with Microsoft’s Work Development Index, time spent in Groups conferences elevated by 148% globally (virtually 2.5x!) between February 2020 and February 2021, and whereas productiveness ranges have remained regular and even elevated in some circumstances, there’s a really actual price to the elevated digital depth of our work. 54% of employees reported they really feel overworked, and 39% reported feeling exhausted.
Fortunately, we all know there are confirmed techniques to mitigate this exhaustion as a person and as a crew. Along with these techniques, we additionally want our instruments to work collectively seamlessly in order that we will really feel empowered, moderately than overwhelmed, by the know-how round us.
Confluence is on a mission to assist your crew collaborate higher, each inside and outdoors of the digital assembly room partitions. So we’ve partnered up with Microsoft Groups, the hub for crew collaboration in Microsoft 365, to deliver you a extra related assembly expertise. We’re thrilled to share that the brand new Confluence Cloud for Microsoft Groups app is now obtainable on Microsoft AppSource.
Seize notes collaboratively
And since everybody’s contributing to the identical web page, it turns into a single supply of fact for the crew. No extra worrying about these three minutes your canine was barking or debating who was assigned which motion merchandise. It’s all documented in a single spot.
As an added bonus, Confluence macros make your notes extra digestible and action-oriented. Select from motion gadgets, choices, code snippets, mentions, tables, and extra!
And when the assembly wraps up, you may publish to a Confluence area of your selecting instantly from the Groups assembly. So, you may take the momentum you’ve gathered in the course of the assembly to dive into your work, moderately than losing time copy-pasting your notes into one other instrument.
Join dialog to motion
Everyone knows that conferences can’t be efficient with out adequate follow-through, so we leveraged automation to immediately share assembly notes within the crew chat, file assembly information, and mixture motion gadgets and choices.
If somebody has to overlook a gathering, they will simply catch up from the hyperlink within the chat. And two weeks from now, whenever you’re making an attempt to recollect the brand new date you selected for the launch, it’s proper there within the Groups chat and arranged by date in Confluence.
Keep in sync whereas working async
What about all of the updates, questions, and sharing that occur asynchronously?
Have to hold that roadmap, mission plan, or notes web page useful for the crew to reference? With the app, you may pin a Confluence web page to any Groups channel for straightforward entry. Have to edit or touch upon the web page? No drawback – you are able to do all of it with out leaving Groups.
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In the present day, Confluence notifications stay in Confluence or in your inbox. However we all know that centralizing your work means additionally centralizing the place you get your notifications and updates. So in a number of brief weeks, we’ll be releasing Confluence private notifications within the Groups app, enabling you to obtain and reply to Confluence web page updates, mentions, and feedback.
With much less time wasted on flipping between home windows, discovering notes, and filling in colleagues, your crew is free to deal with larger and higher challenges. And with higher focus, due to streamlined instruments and automation, you’ll construct higher momentum, collaborate higher, and get to “performed” quicker.
The app is free – get it in the present day and see how Confluence Cloud for Groups can unlock a extra open, cohesive circulate of knowledge inside your crew.
