At Dropbox, we’re on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working. An important part of this is our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). That includes building an inclusive and equitable workplace experience and tuning into the diversity of our people, both of which are key to our longterm success. At Dropbox, all employees can contribute to building a compassionate culture where everyone can do their best work.  To achieve those goals, we’re continuing to execute on our three multi-year DEI commitments: Build a diverse and inclusive team Develop and advance ..read more

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Could simplifying your task list lead to greater work? Cal Newport makes the case. Cal Newport. Penny Gray Photography The cover of Cal Newport’s latest book, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout features a grand western mountainscape. This sweeping view serves as a metaphor for the big change the writer proposes: that in the modern workplace, we’re often too caught up in the minutiae—the trees—to appreciate the broader scope of our work. Even if the view could be great, we might not see it. We’re too busy.  Newport—author of bestsellers Deep Work and D ..read more

Starting today, creative teams have new ways to manage feedback, streamline reviews, and protect content. Filed under News Product When our customers are sprinting to wrap up a video project, they have to navigate a long list of stressful tasks: tracking edits from reviewers in different time zones, resolving conflicting feedback, and switching between tools. And when they’re working in so many tools, it’s nearly impossible to keep everything organized in one place. We’ve been developing new ways to remove that friction with Dropbox Replay, the rich media review and approval tool ..read more

Introducing seamless end-to-end encryption, Microsoft Co-Authoring, new Dropbox Replay features, and more Filed under News Product Company The reality of modern work is that teams are spread across multiple locations, time zones, and even companies. The simplest tasks, like collaborating on content and responding to feedback, can be a massive headache. More than ever, our customers need technology that makes teamwork effortless.  Using the lessons we’ve learned from Virtual First, our playbook for distributed work, we’ve designed new tools that make it easier to find, organize ..read more

The popular YouTuber and creative coach is on a mission to help one billion people make a living doing what they love. AI might be his key. Filed under Work Culture On his YouTube channel, Chris Do has been helping over 2.4 million subscribers navigate the pitfalls of creative work. A former professor of Sequential Design, he now runs workshops offering guidance on pricing your work, building a personal brand, and improving your portfolio.  And as an Emmy award-winning designer and founder/CEO of The Futur, he’s achieved massive success doing what he loves. Now he wants to scale ..read more

Save time on approvals by viewing feedback from Replay within Pro Tools. Filed under News Product We’ve worked closely with audio and video creators around the world to develop Dropbox Replay. In our research, we’ve heard the same stories—production budgets are getting tighter, timelines are being crunched, and managing feedback on mixes and edits is tough when everyone can’t be in the same room.  That’s why we wanted to ensure that audio engineers, musicians, film composers, and video editors have simple ways to manage feedback on the content they share—and that those solutions ..read more

Using Dropbox and Dropbox Sign, Dr. Leslie Dobson protects confidential content, catalogues every clue, and uncovers details that solve true crimes. Filed under Customer Stories When you’re an empath with an extraordinarily strong BS detector, red flags are hard to ignore. Even as a child, Dr. Leslie Dobson had an intuitive sense for when someone was hiding the truth. “I could always see the elephant in the room,” she recalls. “I noticed adults ignoring immoral behavior, and it drove me insane that people would shove stuff under the rug. I always had this voice in me and a desire to f ..read more

Manatees can be tricky to count—even for trained professionals. But scientists might find some help with a new machine learning method. Manatees gather near Blue Spring. Photo courtesy Save the Manatee The Florida manatee—one of the state’s most beloved creatures—is big (9-10 feet long, 1,000 pounds plus)—and generally slow. The hefty aquatic beasts forage in warm, shallow waters all day in pursuit of an average 100 pounds of seagrass, and have no natural predators. Not even alligators, strangely. You’d think Florida’s marine biologists would know exactly how many manatees are floating ..read more

Machine learning in the field of eco-acoustics is allowing scientists to catalog wildlife where they otherwise couldn’t. Here’s how it could change conservation. Bourhan Yassin. Image courtesy Rainforest Connection To understand what’s happening in the world's remote forests, crucial for both the resident species and the planet's health, we must catalog their contents. The challenge? It's a task that's difficult and expensive to perform manually. Enter acoustic monitoring: by “listening” to the soundscape of a place via autonomous recorders, scientists can gain insights into the presenc ..read more