![]() ![]() We’re proud to be the place where your most important work content lives. Tuning out the noise to focus on what matters most We’re excited by the pace of innovation in cloud apps, and we see creating the right environment to manage app overload as a big opportunity. We recently acquired HelloSign-our biggest acquisition to date-to help seamlessly integrate document signing into the Dropbox experience, one of the most pervasive workflows for teams of all kinds. We introduced Dropbox Extensions last fall to help bring this vision to life through a suite of integrations with Autodesk, Adobe, Pixlr, Vimeo, and more. We want to help people do more of their work, from annotating videos to signing contracts, using whatever tools they like, all within a single connected environment. Which is why we’re building Dropbox as an open ecosystem that integrates deeply with popular workplace apps. The tools are great-but juggling them all brings an opportunity cost. The constant context-switching adds to the state of busyness that keeps us from focusing on our most meaningful work. But toggling back and forth between them all creates friction. ![]() Many of these specialized tools offer attractive advantages. And it’s not just in tech-a recent survey found that across industries as varied as healthcare, retail, manufacturing, media and entertainment, companies increased the number of apps they use by an average of 24% from 2016 to 2018. While we’re not making any product announcements in this post, here’s how we want to help impact the way teams work: Managing app overloadĪs more of our work goes into the cloud, the exploding number of cloud-based apps and services has been one of the most impactful trends in the last few years. But we’re excited about what we’ve got planned for 2019. We work in a state of shallow busyness-and it’s driving us nuts. The problem isn’t just long hours, it’s how we work: constantly switching between different tools and apps, distracted by notifications, trying to remember which comment thread has some key information we can’t find. The International Labor Organization has called a Global Commission on the future of work to convene in June, 2019 to address “major trends” like a growing sense that work isn’t rewarding. Many developed nations from Europe to Japan have declared “burnout” an occupational hazard that’s reaching epidemic levels. ![]()
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