Researchers have found that most professionals only spend an average of one minute and fifteen seconds on a task before an interruption. Even worse, it takes workers up to 25 minutes to pick that task back up again. At a business level, these disruptions are responsible for a 40% decrease in productivity, which leads to errors that cost the global economy an estimated $450 billion a year. So what’s the reason for all this context switching? In large part, it’s the myriad of software tools we use every day that forces us to constantly switch between different applications to complete simple tas ..read more

When you collaborate on over 7,500 documents each day, boast nearly 350 employees in offices around the world, and create a staggering 15TB of creative content each month, being able to work together seamlessly from anywhere is priority number one. Which is why Transmission, a global creative marketing agency, deployed Dropbox Business to facilitate collaboration, and today, the business is keeping work organised and securely managing creative briefs for hundreds of global brands. But, it hasn’t always been so easy.  Rapid growth into new territories, the inevitable growing pains of dispa ..read more

As an advertising agency, 1000heads helps its clients tell their story across multimedia platforms all around the world. Aiming to transform the way brands talk and how they are talked about, the company provides strategic consultancy and creative services for some of the most well-known brands on the planet - Wella, Nando’s, and Carphone Warehouse to name a few. So, when Nick Smith joined as IT and Digital Operations Director and found a diaspora of tools being used to deliver creative briefs, he immediately looked for a platform to bring everyone together, eliminate risk, and streamline work ..read more

The UK is one of Dropbox’s largest markets—with a growing customer base—so we are excited to announce that from today eligible Dropbox Business and Enterprise customers will be able to store their file data in the UK. We have seen a growing interest in UK-based data hosting and this move enables companies operating in the UK to easily migrate their file data, whilst end users can continue working without any disruption to service. Local governments, higher educational institutions and large insurance companies are just a few of the types of organisations that rely upon Dropbox to keep their bu ..read more

Livv Housing Group is an independent housing association in Merseyside, with 450 employees managing over 13,000 houses in the local area. When COVID-19 struck the company needed to minimise contact with the patrons it serves, while continuing to accelerate the process of getting people into houses. Guy Corbett, the Director of Business Improvement at the Group, identified the potential of digital contracts and document workflows to tackle both of these challenges. He deployed HelloSign to transform a high-touch, slow, physical signature process into a much faster, digital one. In this blog he ..read more

Plat4mation has grown from three to over 200 employees in seven years. The companies success as a ServiceNow systems integrator and professional services outfit hinges on its ability to execute large-scale projects in a variety of industries, globally. Needing to facilitate global collaboration on projects as the business grew, and secure it, Plat4mation chose Dropbox Business to minimise capital investment in technology, simplify administration, and build a secure and agile ecosystem ready to scale with the business. As we head towards the end of 2020 - arguably one of the most difficult year ..read more

What do a British nonprofit, a German digital property investment tool, and a French children’s publisher all have in common? More than you might think. The Growth Company, Exporo, and Unique Heritage Media have each struggled to maintain efficiency under the sheer weight of paperwork they face. Mountains of documents, hours spent chasing signatures, and miles of paper storage saw these very different companies all desperate to make a change to their existing signature processes. The problem, made exponentially worse thanks to COVID, needed a simple solution, fast. And by implementing HelloSig ..read more

From the elite teams of the Champions League and Copa América, to the grass-roots sides playing semi-pro, embracing digital has become an essential part of a football club’s survival. Organising midweek training, securing commercial opportunities, engaging fans, tracking down new talent, coaching - success these days is so often dependent on digital. And despite the obvious gulf in finances between the top flight squads and your local kick about, one thing is clear: digital is helping to level the playing field. In a sport often won or lost by the finest of margins, and currently in the middle ..read more

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, social distancing measures forced businesses to shut offices overnight and switch to a 100% remote-working model. In fact, the Office of National Statistics reported a 41% rise in the number of home workers for the first half of this year. Some companies were totally unprepared for the ‘new normal’, and were left scrambling around to get the tools and technology in place to enable remote work. But, there was no such problem for education provider, Role Models. Having moved to Dropbox six years ago to enable its global network of employees and students to teac ..read more

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, French business school ESSEC was forced to respond rapidly and digitalise all courses. The result? An agile, open, online learning environment which caters to the needs of students and faculty, both now and in the future.   As part of our recent research paper on the future of learning, we spoke to Adrian Zicari, Professor of Management Control at ESSEC, to find out how the program was implemented – and offer a few tips on how you can follow in their footsteps.    Engage students and faculty With a faculty of 140 and activities in Paris ..read more