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Introducing Asana Partners: Connecting Distributed Teams with Clarity Featuring over 200 Technology Partners including new Zendesk, Adobe, Canva, InVision, Looker and Lucidchart integrations Launching Asana’s Channel Partner network across 75 countries Connecting the world’s teams in 7 new languages SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Asana, Inc. (NYSE: ASAN), a leading work management platform for teams, announced the launch of over 200 essential work tools and strategic channel partne...

artiemedvedev According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index 2021, knowledge workers switch between 10 apps 25 times per day and miss more than one-quarter of deadlines. All of that interrupted work and jumbled communication is a huge challenge for your organization. As a result of so much daily app switching, employees around the world struggle to prioritize their work, logging longer hours and burning out at higher rates. In our distributed world—which, for many organizations, ...

Covid steals jobs, equality from women Covid-19 has disrupted labour markets around the world, resulting in a jobs bloodbath, and recent research shows that women have borne the brunt of unemployment.  Progress for women in the workplace could be back to 2017 levels by the end of 2021 as a result of the pandemic, according to the PwC Women in Work Index 2021, which measures female economic empowerment in 33 organisations for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries such as the Uni...

Businesses and governments have been battling that narrative. After all, the economics speak for themselves: Increased female employment rates could increase OECD countries gross domestic product by $6 trillion. Yet, gender equality is still not a top 10 priority for 70% of organizations, according to IBMs new "Women, leadership and missed opportunities" report. In fact, it found that the number of women in senior leadership positions has barely changed in the past two years, and there are toda...

Britons are among those least concerned about tackling the gender pay gap right now, with a major new study finding that one in 10 believe reports…

  As the world faces both the immediate threats and long-term impact of climate change, data shows that women and children are already the most affected. Globally, eight in 10 climate refugees are women. And they are exponentially more likely to die in natural disasters. Despite this, women are still too few and far between in the places and roles where they can make a difference in helping chart a clean energy future. There are far too few women in boardrooms, senior management roles and tech...

COVID-19 is reversing progress on the road to equality for women in work Governments and businesses must take action to address the fallout of the pandemic. Alex Robinson Photography COVID-19 is harming women’s labor market outcomes more than men’s. In previous pandemics and financial crises, white-collar workers and male-dominated industries were the first to see jobs disappear. But COVID-19 has hit faster and harder those who are the most vulnerable in society — those working in lower-p...

Organisations that are ‘creating pathways to prosperity’ for women can apply for support from Google as well as up to $2m in funding.

Mar 8, 2021 Progress for women in work could be back at 2017 levels by the end of 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to analysis conducted for PwC’s annual Women in Work Index, which measures female economic empowerment across 33 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The evidence emerging globally is that the damage from Covid-19 and government response and recovery policies, is disproportionately being felt by women. For nine years,...

COVID-19 has increased labour market inequalities between women and men, with more women losing or giving up their jobs during the pandemic, according to