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<li>Customer growth accelerates at Qatalog, as 5,000 businesses use the work hub to coordinate teamwork and scale operations as flexible work goes mainstream</li>
<li>Qatalog launches Tasks to power project management, Company section to give users a single source of truth for must-reads</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Qatalog rolls out new capabilities for Workflows, Goals and Projects to simplify collaboration between teams and between businesses</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">New integrations with GitHub, Notion and Slack go live to boost visibility on work happening</li>
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London, December 10, 2021 &mdash; Digital work hub Qatalog today announces that it now powers 5,000 businesses globally, alongside a streak of product launches that bring deeper functionality to its platform.&nbsp;
As flexible work goes mainstream and companies rush to adopt a dizzying array of productivity tools, demand has spiked for a central work hub where teams can navigate the entire virtual workspace in a few clicks and coordinate work in one central place. Just a few months since launch, Qatalog is already powering operations for a wide range of tech-forward businesses, from SaaS and fintech companies through to education and talent platforms. Now, the fast-moving startup is expanding its work hub with the launch of Tasks and Company section, as well as deeper functionality for Workflows, Goals and Projects.
&ldquo;People working across disparate locations, workstreams and tools are having a hard time making sense out of what&rsquo;s happening at work. This was an acute pain point pre-pandemic when we started working on Qatalog; and now as flexible work goes mainstream, it&rsquo;s even more obvious that businesses desperately need a solution.&rdquo; Tariq Rauf, Founder and CEO of Qatalog, commented. &ldquo;In the new world of work, businesses want a central, trusted place that makes their teamwork structured, visible and efficient. Our work hub already delivers this, and the products coming online today help our users save even more time and boost team output even further, without the chaos and confusion.&rdquo;
Qatalog launches Tasks and Company to bring project management and must-reads into the work hub
Qatalog&rsquo;s users&mdash;from operations leaders and product managers, through to executives and HR teams&mdash;are already using Qatalog as a central place to coordinate goals, projects, teams, and more. With the launch of Tasks, teams can now collaborate on project execution by creating tasks to be done, assigning specific owners for each task, and tracking their status.&nbsp;
Additionally, Qatalog is launching Company section, an intranet space within Qatalog. Here, users can access company policies (e.g. vacation policies), must-reads (e.g. company values) and leadership communications (e.g. executive hire announcements), all within one work hub.
Kent Smith, Operations Team Lead at Threekit, commented: &ldquo;Qatalog is a single source of truth for content documentation and a way to create business rules. This makes it easier for organizations, in our case the sales team, to get the information they need so they can spend more time selling and less time searching for information.&rdquo;
Qatalog rolls out new features for Workflows, Goals and Projects to simplify teamwork
Qatalog users can now share Workflows with external partners to better automate routine work with contractors, freelancers, agencies and other teams outside of Qatalog. For example, design operations leads can use this to streamline the production of new marketing collateral with an agency, or people operations managers can use it to build repeatable processes for onboarding new joiners.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Qatalog automates routine processes not only within organizations, but also between businesses,&rdquo; Tariq Rauf comments. &ldquo;This is a big deal for our customers because it saves time and minimizes friction between teams.&rdquo;
Richer capabilities are also going live for Goals and Projects to give users an easy way to coordinate teamwork in a central place. Teams can now quickly visualize progress on goals, divide projects up into phases and use threads to make decisions and request feedback. Rather than having conversations spread across emails, goals tracked manually in spreadsheets, or files scattered across various tools, customers are relying on Qatalog to simplify work and bring it all into one trusted place.&nbsp;
Commenting on how Qatalog structures information about work in a consistently accessible way, Logan Deyo, Founder of byDesign, said: &ldquo;With other tools it&rsquo;s like throwing paint on a canvas and it ends up differently each time, but with Qatalog anybody can throw paint on canvas and it&rsquo;ll end up the exact same picture, every single time.&rdquo;
Qatalog rolls out integrations with GitHub, Notion and Slack
New integrations with GitHub, Notion and Slack give Qatalog users visibility into work happening across disparate teams, tools and projects. This knits work that&rsquo;s happening across different tools into one central place so, from within one work hub, engineering managers can quickly get context on pull requests on GitHub or product leaders can check on feedback from customer calls on Notion.
About Qatalog
Qatalog is a work hub that gives people a radically simpler way to coordinate work across teams and get context on what&rsquo;s happening. Thousands of businesses around the world use it as the central place to manage knowledge and collaborate together. By bringing structure, access and efficiency to teamwork, Qatalog makes it easier for businesses to scale their operations. Backed by Atomico, Salesforce Ventures and Mosaic, Qatalog was founded in 2019; its mission is to unlock the collective potential of teams.

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<li>A crisis of trust is opening up within the modern workplace as a chronic lack of visibility leads 2 in 3 workers (66%) to question the actions of colleagues and leaders.</li>
<li>Qatalog&rsquo;s survey of 2,000 knowledge workers from the UK and US reveals that 63% of workers find it harder to build trust with each other when working remotely.</li>
<li>Despite the popularity of remote and flexible work, the study found that it erodes empathy within the workplace and creates new challenges for leaders to navigate as they plan for the future.</li>
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London, November 17, 2021: Digital work hub <a href="https://qatalog.com/" rel="follow">Qatalog</a> today publishes a survey of 2,000 knowledge workers which uncovers a crisis of trust within the modern workplace, fuelled by a chronic lack of visibility within companies.&nbsp;
<h2>A fragmented workplace characterized by a lack of visibility</h2>
The study found that remote work is feeding a chronic visibility problem within the modern workplace. When working remotely, two-thirds (66%) of respondents reported that they lack visibility of what colleagues are working on and how it fits into the bigger picture.&nbsp;
This is creating blindspots and silos right across the modern organization, on everything from customer feedback to marketing campaigns. It undermines confidence that colleagues and managers are working on the right things, consistently hitting their goals, and can be relied upon. It&rsquo;s no wonder that 63% say it's harder to build trust with their colleagues in a remote environment.&nbsp;
After nearly two years of remote work, 40% say they still find it hard to manage work across distributed teams. This may be due to complacency and underinvestment on the part of employers. About a third (34%) say their employer has either not invested, or has not adequately invested, in the tools and policies needed to support remote or flexible work.&nbsp;
Either way, this lack of visibility means that good work is often going unrecognized. Less than a third (28%) of the workforce feel that their positive contributions at work are regularly recognized, and one in ten (10%) say that their positive contributions are ignored altogether.&nbsp;
These visibility challenges also impact career progression: 47% of workers believe it's easier to get promoted if you spend more time in the office.
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Tariq Rauf, founder and CEO of Qatalog, says: &ldquo;Employees feel valued when they know how their work fits into the bigger picture and are given the space to work on their own terms. That&rsquo;s hard when the workplace is so fragmented and visibility is so poor. To fix this, employers must be intentional about helping teams work with a shared perspective even when they&rsquo;re not in the room together.&rdquo;
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<h2>The emerging crisis of trust</h2>
The findings also show that, in this fragmented working environment, workers' faith in their leaders and colleagues is eroding.
Employees are suspicious about the motivations of employers that want to bring them back into the office. Although only 2% of those surveyed feel positive about the effects of returning to the office, 37% attribute a return to their bosses&rsquo; interests.&nbsp;
Although 60% of workers say that they are more productive while working remotely, only 30% believe their bosses are more productive when working this way. When people suspect their leaders are taking the foot off the gas and are not being held accountable, it erodes trust within the team.
The lack of trust isn&rsquo;t just felt between employees and their leaders. 63% of workers believe it's harder to build trust with their colleagues in a remote environment.&nbsp;
Empathy is also eroding in the remote and flexible working world, with suspicion and frustration creeping in its place. If a colleague is slow to respond to a message when working remotely, 34% say they get more frustrated than they would do in person. Worse, 10% say they&rsquo;re more suspicious of colleagues that take sick leave when they&rsquo;re working remotely.
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Rauf adds: &ldquo;The modern workplace is putting pressure on our ability to empathize. You used to be able to walk into the office, talk to people to get their perspective, and absorb everything going on around you. Now, it&rsquo;s the opposite: the workplace is highly fragmented, people are working in the dark, and it&rsquo;s hard to put yourself in others&rsquo; shoes. In this environment, it&rsquo;s tricky to build a strong connection with colleagues and feel engaged with work.&rdquo;&nbsp;
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<h2>Flexible working is here to stay</h2>
Despite the growing trust crisis, flexibility looks like it's here to stay, with employees willing to tolerate the downsides because of the advantages it brings.&nbsp;
Nearly half (47%) of employees prefer working from home full-time, while 48% prefer working flexibly, sometimes at home and sometimes in person. 75%, meanwhile, want the flexibility to completely or partly work to their own schedule. The feeling is so strong that 73% of employees believe that remote and flexible work are key to a company&rsquo;s ability to compete in the war for talent.
<h2>A looming confrontation&nbsp;</h2>
The survey data also points to a potential confrontation brewing between workers and leaders on pay, benefits, and access to flexibility.&nbsp;
Any companies considering cutting salaries for remote workers based on their location could face a striking backlash. More than 90% think it&rsquo;s unfair to cut the wages of remote workers based on their location, while 90% of workers say they will quit their jobs if salaries are cut based on proximity to the office.
And that&rsquo;s not all. With the cost of living increasing, 93% of workers plan to make some sort of change in their professional lives. From asking for a pay rise (29%) to working from home more often (17%) or quitting their job for something else (17%), workers will demand change if their employers don&rsquo;t offer it - something for management teams to be mindful of as they plan for 2022.
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Rauf adds: &ldquo;The Great Resignation is a huge danger for every business today &mdash; the balance of power is shifting away from companies to employees. Building a culture of trust and flexibility has never been more critical to keeping people engaged in this new world of work.&rdquo;&nbsp;
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Qatalog survey of 2,000 knowledge workers uncovers a crisis of trust within the modern workplace. Read more in the press release.

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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Exclusive data from Qatalog and Cornell University&rsquo;s Ellis Ideas Lab reveals that the uncontrolled adoption of digital tools is killing productivity at work.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Employees are wasting an hour every day trying to find information hidden within apps; 6 in 10 of people say it&rsquo;s hard to know what colleagues are doing; 43% say they spend too much time switching between different work apps like Slack and Zoom.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Qatalog today launches the Work isn&rsquo;t Working campaign at <a href="https://language.work/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">https://language.work/</a> to challenge this productivity scam and call for a reset of standards amid the transition to hybrid work.</li>
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London, June 9, 2021: Digital work hub Qatalog today reveals the findings of a landmark study conducted with researchers at Cornell University into the impact of apps on our working lives. It reveals how productivity software is cheating workers out of time, focus and creativity in a battle for their attention in the new digital workplace.
The research is released as part of Qatalog&rsquo;s Work isn&rsquo;t Working campaign, launched today at <a href="https://language.work/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">https://language.work/</a>, to protect people from an onslaught of new workplace technology and the hangover of ineffective pre-pandemic working practices.&nbsp;
&ldquo;We need to call time on the great productivity scam. There&rsquo;s been an explosion in the number of apps we rely on to do our jobs, but the result isn&rsquo;t greater productivity &mdash; it&rsquo;s total chaos,&rdquo; said Tariq Rauf, CEO and founder of Qatalog. &ldquo;No matter their individual merits, each tool is adding to a noisy digital environment that is, quite literally, driving workers to distraction. The more time that we waste on this mess, the less we have for deep thought and meaningful engagement with our colleagues. We deserve better.&rdquo;
<h2>Time to Slack off and Zoom out</h2>
The research found that soaring adoption of workplace apps, from Slack to Zoom, is cheating workers out of time, focus and creativity.&nbsp;
Productivity tools are killing our productivity.&nbsp;
In a typical working day, people are wasting 59 minutes trying to find information across tools like Google Workspace, storage systems like Dropbox and messaging channels like Slack &mdash; <a href="https://qatalog.com/blog/post/productivity-tools-killing-productivity/" rel="follow">5 hours of wasted time every week</a>. Knowledge is fragmented across too many tools, with 54% of workers saying that this makes it harder to find what they need. &ldquo;Technology is trapping knowledge. In many ways, we&rsquo;ve replaced the commute with mindless busywork trying to find it,&rdquo; says Rauf.
We&rsquo;re working in the dark as tech runs amok.
People are uncertain about what work is being done in other teams&rsquo; apps and communication platforms. The branding team might live in a project management app, while the content team organizes work in an online wiki and the sales team tracks everything in a CRM. 61% of people say it can be hard to figure out what others are working on, while 44% say siloed digital tools make it hard to know whether work is being duplicated.&nbsp;
Confused workers are oversharing, adding to the chaos.&nbsp;
Half of workers (49%) say they&rsquo;re concerned that the information they post to their company&rsquo;s apps will get lost in a sea of updates. This feeds uncertainty about whether crucial information is actually reaching its intended audiences, while 53% of people admit to making updates even when they&rsquo;re not fully necessary, just to cover their bases.&nbsp;
Context switching at work is rife, and our creativity is suffering.
An explosion of apps is fuelling workplace distraction. 43% of workers report spending too much time switching between different digital tools, whether cycling through tabs or digging through messaging channels, and 45% say this context switching makes them less productive. This chaotic work environment makes it harder to work together on creative projects &mdash; nearly two thirds (62%) of people report missing opportunities to collaborate in the modern workplace.&nbsp;
Technology is fuelling a burnout crisis.&nbsp;
The impact of all this? 89% of respondents say their work life is getting worse, <a href="https://hbr.org/2021/02/beyond-burned-out" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">according to HBR</a>. 7 in 10 also say there could be more efficient ways of using technology to get work done, according to the new Qatalog research.
<h2>Qatalog launches Work isn&rsquo;t Working campaign to stop the great productivity scam</h2>
The research conducted with Cornell University&rsquo;s Ellis Lab is released as part of Qatalog&rsquo;s Work isn&rsquo;t Working campaign, which launches today at <a href="https://language.work">https://language.work</a> to help companies redesign their work environments amid huge structural change in how people work.
&ldquo;Fixing our chaotic work practices will take a thoughtful, two-pronged approach, not a half-baked hybrid work plan, or even worse, a command to return to the office full-time,&rdquo; comments Rauf. &ldquo;Firstly, we need to press reset on the technology that underpins our working day so it creates focus, not chaos. We&rsquo;ve been blessed with powerful new tools at work, but fooled into using them in the wrong way &mdash; it&rsquo;s time to fix that. Secondly, we need a mindset shift that breaks from pre-pandemic 9-5 norms and embraces a radically new working culture rooted in trust.&rdquo;&nbsp;
The campaign offers a <a href="https://language.work/change-now/" rel="follow">Modern Work Index</a>, where people can benchmark their own workplace against core principles of trust, flexibility, focus and belonging, find out what needs to be improved, and get practical advice on how to do it.
&ldquo;The old rules no longer apply. The 9 to 5 is dead and so too is the presenteeism that comes with it. Companies are waking up to this and, in a war for talent, are racing to create new working norms rooted in trust, flexibility, focus and belonging,&rdquo; Rauf says.&nbsp;
About the study
The study was conducted in partnership with the Ellis Idea Lab, Cornell University. The academic team specializes in organizations&rsquo; behaviours in the workplace and advised on shaping an objectively rigorous study into how the adoption of digital tools in distributed teams is impacting workplace behaviours. Three separate surveys were completed, each by 1,000 US and UK workers in March 2021. Survey participation was limited to respondents currently working remotely in some capacity.&nbsp;
Press contact: <a href="mailto:qatalog@thisisoutcast.com">qatalog@thisisoutcast.com</a>&nbsp;

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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The 9-5 is dead, but hybrid breathes new life into confusion at work where around 50% of people complain of drowning in tools and around 60% have no idea what their colleagues are doing</li>
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APRIL 27, 2021, INTERNET &mdash; Work infrastructure company Qatalog has teamed up with remote work pioneer GitLab to dissect the state of remote work and the implications for companies considering a transition to a hybrid work model. Drawing from the experiences of 3,000 people across six continents, the 2021 GitLab Remote Work Report, sponsored by Qatalog, reveals that 42% have already gone hybrid, even as positive sentiment towards fully remote work rides high, with around four in five saying they&rsquo;re satisfied with their remote work set-up.&nbsp;
The apparent satisfaction with remote belies a more challenging reality: distractions rank as the biggest pain point in daily work, closely followed by excessive meetings; and six in 10 complain that their colleagues work in silos. Now, as companies consider unchartered territory with hybrid, they risk creating more confusion between in-office and remote teams, amplifying the chaos of modern work.
&ldquo;Modern work is driving us to distraction. Status check-ins over video, after-hours pings, endless notifications &mdash; it&rsquo;s fuelling burnout.&rdquo; commented Tariq Rauf, CEO and founder of Qatalog. &ldquo;Hybrid is unchartered territory and threatens to amplify this chaos even further. Companies should approach with extreme caution and develop clear plans about how they will restore focus for workforces split between kitchen tables and headquarters.&rdquo;
<h2>Hybrid delusion tempts companies into more chaos</h2>
As lockdown restrictions begin to ease in countries like the US and the UK, employees are splitting their time between home and the office, with 42% of employees stating that they already have a hybrid set-up. The allure is that hybrid promises the best of both worlds, offering the flexibility of working remotely alongside the value of face-to-face interactions. Just under half (45%) of remote workers are concerned about not seeing their colleagues in person, so it&rsquo;s no wonder they&rsquo;re already heading back.
While many are tempted out of their pajamas and into their suits, the vast majority of people say they enjoy the remote working experience: four in five would recommend remote working to a friend and 81% of people are satisfied with the level of productivity. People cite increased productivity, efficiency, and employee morale as the top three benefits of working remotely.
<h2>Hybrid is poised to turn cracks of modern work into fissures&nbsp;</h2>
Employee satisfaction with remote work jars with the reality of it. People complain of muddling through a maze of software tools and on-screen distractions, as well as uncertainty about what their colleagues are actually up to. Nearly half (48%) of respondents report wasting time searching for documents and files across multiple tools, and six in 10 say that tool overload is causing silos.&nbsp;
This problem won&rsquo;t go away with hybrid, which introduces more barriers between teams and projects, adding confusion to the chaos. For example, employees enjoying an impromptu watercooler chat in the office are leaving remote workers in the dark about plans made on the fly. Just over a third (37%) report that their organization does a good job of aligning work across projects in the remote environment, and this risks becoming even more complicated with hybrid.
&ldquo;As hybrid goes mainstream, it threatens to turn the cracks of modern work into fissures.&rdquo; commented Tariq Rauf. &ldquo;Already, it&rsquo;s hard to get everyone on the same page. Now, hybrid brings about even more fragmentation, adding confusion to the chaos.&rdquo;
<h2>Opportunity to reset standards as email and video continue to dominate</h2>
Our expectations of what a fair work environment looks like are low. While around three quarters (71%) of remote workers say their organization does a &ldquo;good job&rdquo; of balancing asynchronous and synchronous work, they still rank distractions as their biggest irritation about working remotely and nearly half (48%) default to video meetings when collaborating remotely.&nbsp; What&rsquo;s more, the majority of people (53%) start their day in their inbox, eclipsing the 6% of people who use project management tools, implying that email is still king and that new models of collaboration haven&rsquo;t yet been adopted en masse.&nbsp;
Confronted by the reality of a chaotic workplace replete with overflowing inboxes and unnecessary meetings, companies are taking stock of how stressed their employees are. Now, the decision to either stay all-remote or experiment with hybrid offers a rare opportunity to reset standards to restore focus for burnt-out employees.
&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve allowed ourselves to become accustomed to Zoom fatigue, after-hours pings on Slack, and email overload. It doesn&rsquo;t have to be like this,&rdquo; commented Tariq Rauf. &ldquo;With Qatalog, we&rsquo;re inventing an entirely new way of working for this new age. For our customers going hybrid or staying remote, we&rsquo;re removing the millions of friction points to give them more time to focus, and clearer context for better decisions.&rdquo;
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