We acquired Slapdash! Slapdash makes it incredibly easy for people to quickly tap into their company’s collective knowledge that, until now, was nearly impossible to find. When we learned how much time people wasted as they struggled to access the knowledge they needed to do their jobs, we felt the need to act.

Accelerating Our Mission with a Strategic AcquisitionĪt ClickUp, our core mission is to make the world more productive by saving people time. And on top of that, they’ll get back the most precious commodity there is…time. Every single day, employees spend about an hour simply searching for the information they need to do their jobs, and 7 out of 10 wish there could be more efficient ways of using company apps do to their work.Įspecially in the age of The Great Resignation, making it easier for employees to access and act upon company knowledge represents an enormous opportunity to provide better work experiences, leading to greater employee satisfaction and retention. The details we needed kept getting lost or misplaced.įrom the time ClickUp was born to 2020, the average number of apps used by companies increased by a factor of five according to BetterCloud!Įmployees have just about had it. The very first version of ClickUp was created out of frustrations from using more than a dozen tools to get our work done – when in reality they were actually slowing us down. As teams piled on tools, the knowledge accessibility problem got worse. This started with good intentions-a specialized app for every team-but juggling all those apps quickly spiraled into a web of chaos and inefficiency. Companies are using more work apps today than ever before. It’s trapped in a variety of apps, siloed across teams, and buried deep in the brains of tenured colleagues.īut here’s the scary part. If you’ve ever tried to tap into the collective knowledge within your company, you know how hard it is. But that’s only true if you can find it and use it to your advantage. Everyone has heard the saying that knowledge is power.

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