At Every Turn

Professionals continue to use email attachments when collaborating with external stakeholders. Why didn't file sharing stop this insecure behavior?

Why are there so many mouse jigglers? We dig into the rise of performative work and how the obsession with looking busy detracts from meaningful work.

In this blog post we describe how relators are using TakeTurns to simplify the real estate purchase process for everyone. Or, how to spend less time on email/administrative tasks and more time growing the business and delivering better customer service.

In this post we describe the TakeTurns ghost role and why it’s better than using BCC in email.

We’ve all been there. You email the contract to your counterparty because it was supposed to be straightforward. Now it’s weeks later and the entire contract negotiation has gone off the rails. One big reason? You chose to negotiate in email. Its lack of structure has left everyone confused and drowning in a flood of messages.

Asynchronous work is back! In this post we discuss why many professionals are rethinking the real-time/synchronous collaboration, or work.

In our user interviews, email keeps coming up as the most common platform for collaborating with people outside of one’s organization. It’s also the most common “archiving” solution. In this post, we describe why email should not be used as an archiving solution.

In this blog post, we explore the environmental impact of collaboration by estimating the CO2e, carbon dioxide equivalent or carbon footprint, of email-driven external collaborations, and we identify some of the key drivers. We focused on email because it continues to be the primary tool for professionals that need to collaborate with people outside their organization.