Asana Adds A Video Messaging Feature In Partnership With Vimeo

Piece of work direction platform Asana has announced a suite of new features to assistance employees during the current hybrid work era. According to the company, 80 percent of employees go along their inbox and communication apps open up when working, with most of them feeling pressured to multitask. This results in lower efficiency and people often miss deadlines or critical messages. It now promises improved productivity and lesser work distractions with the new features.

"Nosotros've designed a suite of new offerings purpose-congenital to align your attending with your intention. Featuring integrations with our newest Asana Partners,Vimeo and Clockwise, we're removing distractions and making it easier to do the work that requires your full attention," said Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer, Asana.

Asana adds video messaging characteristic

The most notable new improver to Asana is an asynchronous video messaging feature. Adult in partnership with video-hosting platform Vimeo, this tool eliminates the need for more video meetings while still offer the benefits of confront-to-face up advice. Employees can record videos of themselves and/or their Asana screens and share them with their colleagues or bosses. This way, they will be able to better convey the emotion and context near the work at hand, without the "tax of more meetings."

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a k pictures," said Hood.

The platform also automatically transcribes your speech. Your co-workers can search for and share those sound transcripts to help with the work. The video messaging feature will ringlet out to all Asana customers in the coming weeks.

"Asana stepped upwardly their feature delivery based on how workers now want and await to work. Their new Video Messaging asynchronous video conversations will exist a gamechanger for some teams," said Wayne Kurtzman, IDC Inquiry Manager for Communities and Collaboration.

Intelligent to-dos, smart calendar banana, and more

In add-on to the new video messaging feature, Asana has also "supercharged" My Tasks with the latest update. The company says it has made the characteristic more intelligent so it could automatically organize your tasks. Users can organize their work in "Kanban, listing, and calendar versions of their personal tasks."

With automation, the app will organize them based on the due appointment. If your task depends on the work of a teammate, information technology volition permit y'all know every bit soon every bit they complete their office of the work. Asana says this modify is "inspired by the productivity best practices of high-performance teams."

With the latest update, Asana is too integrating with Clockwise, the pop smart calendar assistant. It lets you lot schedule tasks straight from within the app. All you lot demand to practise is enter the amount of time needed to consummate the task and when yous want to work. Clockwise will then automatically reserve time on your calendar then you don't miss the deadline. The scheduled task calendar consequence is likewise accessible in Google Agenda.

Lastly, Asana has also launched a desktop app for Windows and Mac. The company says the new app offers the full functionality of the web version and further allows employees to focus on the task at hand by blocking out unwanted notification sounds. Yous can download the Asana desktop app from asana.com/download.