However, the designer on your team is checking their email for updates and misses the message in Teams. Let’s say you’re working on a design project, and a stakeholder shares a critical change to the specifications in a Teams chat.

It can be even more complicated when teams or departments within a company use different apps to share information. When information becomes scattered across multiple apps, it’s easier for people to receive conflicting information or even miss an important message altogether. Too many apps can cause misunderstandings or create confusion within your company, primarily when employees use multiple tools that serve similar functions. While there are obvious financial costs associated with workplace technology, not finding the right balance of tools can impact your organization beyond budgets. The cost of using too many apps for communication and collaboration at work

What tools and apps employees can’t go without.

The true cost of tech fatigue in your organization.

Even with workers having dozens of apps at their fingertips each day, when we asked Snagit customers what their “desert island” workplace tools are, a few apps rose to the top across various industries and roles.

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