Teams Spend More Time Searching for Communications in Canva Than Acting on Them
A finance leader reports that employees spend more time locating relevant communications and files within Canva than actually acting on them, describing it as the most inefficient tool the company has adopted. This points to poor searchability and information retrieval within collaborative design and communication tools as team usage scales.
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