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May 19, 2022

How to Cut Out 97% of Your Client Meetings in a Week

Learn how one agency cut 97% of employee meetings and how you can too.

How to Stop Having "Too Many Meetings" by Building an Asynchronous Culture

Too many meetings can lead to business inefficiency and burnout. Here’s how to create a culture of fewer meetings and how to make necessary meetings more efficient.

The Complete Guide to Asynchronous Communication

Asynchronous communication saves time, improves communication, and boosts productivity. Learn all about async in this complete guide.

8 Types of Remote Meetings Ranked By How Hard They Are To Cancel

These asynchronous meeting suggestions are simply tools to help you find the balance that works best for you, your team, and your business’ goals and needs.

5 Tips For Leaders That Want to Avoid Burnout On Remote Teams

At its core, a lot of burnout is a choice. Not that anyone chooses to burn themselves out. Instead, it’s often the result of an entire chain of decisions we make while we’re working that lands us there. And we have a lot of control over each of those inputs.

5 Ways You’re Already Communicating Asynchronously (Even If You’ve Never Heard of Async Before)

Humans simply aren’t capable of communicating in person and syncing up live all of the time. So the next time your colleague suggests that you connect this way more often, remember that it’s something you’re already doing anyway. Chances are that you’re more familiar with this concept than you think.

Voice Messaging is Not Voicemail

Voice messaging is intentional way to let someone respond on their own time, not an afterthought because you couldn't get a hold of someone.

How to Run an Asynchronous Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Even though it’s entirely possible to connect async for retrospectives, you may not want to use them for every step of the process.

6 Audio First Startups Changing Legacy Industries

As innovators think of new ways to engage, expect technology to stop relying so much on eyes and start engaging other senses like hearing. There is already a lot going on in this space, and it’s only growing. Audio is set to disrupt every legacy industry in the world - and this time, they want you to hear them coming.

Audio First Messaging Platform Yac Raises $7.5 Million Series A Led by GGV Capital and Co-led by the Slack Fund

Yac Inc., an online voice message and asynchronous communications platform, today announced it has raised $7.5 million in venture funding led by GGV Capital with additional investment from the Slack Fund, who also invested in 2020. Yac is currently developing one of the most efficient audio communication platforms for remote teams.

Stop Talking to Ducks. There’s a Better Way to Debug

With tools like Yac, you can record a memo for yourself and automatically turn it into an async voice conversation that’s documented for whenever you need it.

How to brainstorm asynchronously without losing idea quality

The office world chose synchronous as a foundation, and it led to tons of meetings that probably should have been an email. Remote work has the opportunity to flip that script, starting asynchronously and demanding justification for holding meetings.

Introducing: Yac 3.0 🎉🚀

We’ve updated nearly every aspect of Yac in the last month and we are proud to finally get to announce it.

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