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Far too often, it goes like this: You download data from your apps—your PayPal transaction data, say, or an exported email list from your old newsletter app—and open it in a spreadsheet. Then you move data around, resize columns, format text, delete rows, add headers, and finally add...

You'd think hiring would be a breeze: People are clamoring for exciting positions, so you just pick one of the many talented people who come your way.

Well, according to a 2015 report from Deloitte, it costs U.S. companies an average of $4,000 to recruit each new...

As a manager, the way you communicate with your team plays a big role in their performance. Whether you are in a traditional office or a remote, distributed team like Zapier, technology can help. Apps like Slack bridge the communication divide, and video chat tools like Zoom can almost help...

Evernote is among the best apps for productivity and much of its success comes from its flexibility. Evernote lets you create and save whatever type of notes you want, from audio memos to doodles to photos, with a wealth of tools to store, sort, and organize them. It's so...

Diversity helps teams be more effective, but there's still a lot of room for improvement when it comes to women working in tech. Django Girls is an international non-profit organization that aims to introduce more women to the field of programming. The organization provides all the training materials needed...

We are drowning in content.

Every day, millions of blog posts are published, and most of them are fluff. Not that we don't want to find out which Friends character we're most like, but it's not the highest caliber content.

The good news? High-quality, authoritative, in-depth content...

We all make important decisions, sometimes daily, yet there's a mystique about being called a decision maker. That label crowns one with power, especially when used in the workplace. It signals authority, leadership status, and influence. Decision makers shape the business, and the most successful ones seem to get...

Spreadsheets excel at crunching numbers. Add a column of figures—your sales or expenses, perhaps—and a quick formula =SUM(A1:A10) can add them up or =AVERAGE(A1:A10) returns the average price. They’re flexible yet powerful.

Databases are better at connecting enormous amounts of data across different...

At Zapier, we're a fully remote team and use Slack heavily to communicate. The first week or two after I joined the team, I found myself updating my Slack status way too often. When I was generally free, I set the icon to the Romanian flag and typed my...

Let's get something straight: I'm not about to tell you that you need to be a parent to be a good manager. I'm also not about to tell you that your employees are anything like children. (If they are, stop reading and go take care of that...