Mart Virkus

Have you ever heard of the book “How To Win Friends and Influence People”? Well, this comic is the exact opposite of that.

It might sound weird to take career tips from the undead, but they’ve been at it for a while. Elizabeth from War and Peas speaks to the dead (we think?), so we asked her top channel some hot tips from beyond the grave.

Truth be told, there’s no wrong way to manage a big software project (except “moving fast and breaking things” – that one has…

Building a startup is about hacking beautiful ideas into flaming wrecks and then putting people in them. It should never be used for making cars.

Ah, working from home – smells like Millennials in their underwear typing up ad copy on their Macbooks. But what would the world look like if everybody got to work from home?
We gave it our best guess:

More and more companies are shifting to remote work. This infographic explains why that’s happening, and what you need to know if you want to go remote.

How hard is it to slay a dragon? Well, if you’re a programmer then it’s very, very hard indeed.

Software development is a special kind of a nightmare. The kind that you wish you could wake up from, but can’t, because code is money and money is life.

Are you a developer? Do you know what “frontend” really does? Or “ops”? How about “leadgen”?
Well, this lightbulb developer comic should clear things up. It’s totally accurate, too:

“Our budget’s kinda tight right now, so how about we just give you tons of exposure?”
Did reading that just make you incredibly mad? Then read on.

“How do I convince my team to use Toggl?” is a question many of you are struggling with. We spoke with Paul Weinstein from Wheelhouse Search on how he managed to tackle the issue.

How would you like to wrap up your work day two hours earlier every day? Well, you can – you just have to work smarter, not harder.

Meet Katya. The name has been changed, because she is guilty of the most heinous crime imaginable – faking her timesheets.

Ah, the airport – a veritable hell of long lines, frisky officers, expensive meals and bad coffee. But to get to where we want to go, we must overcome. We want to share some helpful airport hacks and tips on how to make flying suck less.

Do you know what you’re really spending your working hours on? We decided to find out, and the results are pretty shocking.

We love hearing how other Toggl users manage their businesses, and we love sharing their stories. This time, Christian Ángel Rennella shares his company’s experience in transitioning from a physical office into a virtual team.

Managers sometimes get a bad rep – so much so that some are beginning to question if we need them at all? And while there’s a few bad apples in every basket, all is not lost for the bosses.

“Oh c**p, am I not supposed to be resting?” Oh no no no, sit back down! What I meant was – if you were to do work, then how much?

This just in – remote work is growing in America, men cook more and TV still rules the nation.

“Oh man, time sure moves slowly when you’re on vacation – maybe I’ll just check my e-mail for a second?” And down the bloody rabbit hole, you go.
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We hear so much about the negative effects of stress that we actually forget about why stress exists in the first place.

Runaway meetings are huge day killers. The worst of them end up morphing into these weird social gatherings in an awkward work-obligation kind of way. Yuck.

It’s incredible how big of an effect music has on how we experience things around us.

As remote work gets more and more popular, we have to ask what is the glue that holds companies together?

At Toggl, we know it’s summer when our office suddenly has more floors than people.

Throughout the years of working on Toggl, we’ve found that people use time tracking for all sorts of stuff. It’d be a shame to let all that experience go to waste. And we’d love it if you could help us.

Well, there it is – one of you is the 1,000,000th Toggler. Congratulations, anonymous winner!

Ever wanted to know what it’s like working at a tech company? Consider this a beginner’s guide to tech employee stereotypes.

It’s never too soon to start working on a good habit. Teaching your kids time management early on can help them tremendously in the future. I also think learning should be fun. How would you react if I said Minecraft is the perfect time management learning tool?

I’ve had the chance to play both sides of the field – I’ve been the new guy at the office, but I’ve also had to oversee plenty people learn their way into a new job. But the mistakes are always the same.

Look, keeping track of where your work time really goes is important – be it for analysing your productivity, billing clients or tracking big projects. But I think we can all agree that paper timesheets suck for doing that.

Our brains aren’t super great when it comes to tracking time. Depending on what we’re doing, time can seem as passing slower or quicker.

It starts sneakily enough. I see a chat notification pop up, and without a second thought, I open it. It’s a request from a co-worker, and I courteously respond.
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Even the notoriously uninhibited creatives can benefit from time tracking – be it for billing their clients or for improving their time management skills. But they have to be careful not to mix up time and results.

Recently I suggested in one of our blog posts that office hours need to die and that it might be wiser to distribute work in a different, more fle…

Working from home might seem like a tempting concept, but its pitfalls are many. If you don’t draw a clear line between your work and domestic routines, this arrangement can turn from a dream job into a productivity nightmare.

The objective of work is not to be at work – it’s to get work done.

There are never too many reasons to stop smoking. Your health and well-being should be your primary concern, but smoking is not just killing you – it’s also killing your time.

Mornings are awesome for productivity. Guess what else is awesome? Cat pictures.

Not taking advantage of new technologies when starting your business is almost criminal. Whether you’re looking for time tracking apps, team management software or cloud storage – there’s an app for everything. You just have to find the right ones. We’ve listed a few to get you started:

Many of you living and working way south of the arctic circle do so in what we’re assuming is a perpetually festive mood. While we recognize that hot climate is not necessarily easier to cope with, living in the upper regions of the northern hemispher…

I recently started a “career” as a freelance cartoon artist (i.e. some dude is paying me to draw simple faces). I felt I was good enough at it and people other than my parents liked my drawings (thanks granny!). Upon securing my first deal, I suddenly found myself facing a problem amateur artists rarely face – deadlines.