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Have you ever seen or heard a word repeated so often it begins to lose its meaning? This phenomenon is called "semantic satiation," and it's something I'm sure we've all experienced over the past 12 months. While special mention must go to "the new normal" and "social distancing," I'd like to throw a hat in the ring for a word that once most commonly appeared before "capacitator" in one of Doc Brown's rants in Back to the Future: "flux."

In December last year, we released tracking for Core Web Vitals using custom tagging so that you can have consolidated performance metrics that accurately reflect your customer's digital experience. Today, we are excited to continue this journey and announce our native first-class support for Core Web Vitals (CWV) tracking within Real User Monitoring. Now, you can see a detailed overview of how your website performs against Google's modern user-centric metrics, alongside all the diagnostics you need to take action.

Only Exoprise provides full coverage for synthetic monitoring of the entire Microsoft 365 suite. The use of 8-10 different synthetic sensors per site provides customers and prospects with an ideal start. These site locations may include corporate headquarters, branch offices, or work from home settings with knowledge workers. Exoprise effectively monitors the health, availability, and performance of applications such as Azure AD, Exchange Online, Teams, Yammer, OneDrive, Outlook, Portal, etc. via synthetic sensors and captures real-time metric data in CloudReady.

Working remotely is an increasingly growing trend in the current work environment, where employees can sign in from anywhere. While some companies consider remote work regularly, others have completely adopted this working model, especially following the recent coronavirus pandemic. Regardless, businesses should develop legal work from home policies that streamline this new working method.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a geek as a person who is boring, wears clothes that are not fashionable, doesn't know how to behave in social situations. Talk about negative stereotyping! Being a geek is about so much more than (a lack of) fashion, being dull, and an alleged social ineptitude. Being a geek is something inherent, and as some of our Head Geeks will let you know, is saved for those who are truly passionate about the nichest of hobbies and interests.

Single-page applications (SPAs) present a unique approach to building web applications. They help to increase development velocity and can present big performance wins when it comes to delivering a fast and seamless user experience. Monitoring SPAs for performance still comes with a unique set of challenges, like choosing the most impactful metrics, gaining visibility into app performance over time, and knowing what metrics you can get from the browser. The main benefit of using SPAs is that a page does not need to reload when the content on the page changes. However, this feature, and the fact the page does not reload, is what makes it hard to monitor SPA performance.

Working from home is no longer an option but a necessity. Millions of Americans are now part of this "work from home" experiment triggered by Covid-19. There may be no turning back as employees and businesses choose this new emerging model. Remote workers are likely here to stay. According to a Gartner 2020 survey, 82% of business leaders surveyed plan to allow their employees to work remotely for part of the time and half of them intend to allow their employees to work remotely in the future.