Your team already opens SCREENish every day to track time and stay on the same page. Now there’s a brand-new reason to keep it open. Meet SCREENish Huddle — a private place for your whole team to talk, call, and share, built right into the window you already use.

Look for the new Huddle tab. Behind it you’ll find a team directory, one-to-one chat, audio and video calls, and direct file sharing — all in one spot. And here’s the promise we want to lead with: this is a secure team chat app designed so that your company’s conversations stay your company’s business. There’s nothing new to install and no separate account to create. If you have SCREENish, you have Huddle.

Everyone on your team, one click away

No more hunting through email addresses or trying to remember someone’s username. Open Huddle and a simple team directory shows exactly who you can reach. Message them, call them, or start a video — all from the same list.

Just as important is who can’t show up there. Only people verified as being on your team can message or call you. There’s no inviting the whole internet, no strangers wandering in, and no spam from accounts you’ve never heard of. This is a private team messaging app built for real coworkers, not for the outside world.

Chat one-to-one without leaving a trail

Sometimes you just need a quick answer. Huddle lets you send text messages straight to a teammate, right inside SCREENish — perfect for the day-to-day questions you’d rather not scatter across email threads or some outside app.

Here’s what makes it a genuinely private business messaging app. Messages are delivered while you’re both online. Our server simply passes each one along and then forgets it — so there’s no growing pile of chat history sitting on a server somewhere for anyone to leak, hand over, or mine. The only copy of your conversation history lives on your own computer, and it’s locked to that computer. Copy that history file to another machine and it simply won’t open. Your words stay with you.

Text chat in Huddle is always one-to-one — a real, private conversation between two people.

Jump on a call, face to face

When a call beats typing, start one in a couple of clicks. Reach a teammate by audio or video, or gather a small group — up to four people — for a quick huddle to talk something through together.

This is where private video calls for teams really shine. Whenever your network allows, your call travels straight from one person’s device to the other — device to device, not parked on some company’s cloud. It’s scrambled the entire way, so no one in the middle can watch or listen in. And on the rare occasion a strict office firewall forces a call to take a detour, the point it passes through still can’t make sense of a thing — your conversation stays unreadable to it.

The call also runs in its own separate space that shuts down the moment you close the app. Nothing lingers.

Send files straight to a teammate, and nowhere else

Need to hand someone a document, an image, or a report? Huddle’s secure file sharing for teams is the strictest part of the whole experience.

Files travel straight from your device to your teammate’s device — hand to hand. They never pass through, and never sit on, any server. And if a truly private, direct connection can’t be made, Huddle doesn’t quietly reroute your file somewhere you didn’t choose. It cancels the transfer and tells you clearly. Privacy always wins over convenience. Anything you receive lands neatly in your Downloads folder, right where you’d expect it.

It all lives in one window

Chat, calls, and file sharing sit together under the Huddle tab, so there’s no bouncing between apps all day. Because it’s part of SCREENish, your team stays in the tool they already know. One login, one window, one place for team communication — that’s the whole idea behind a truly built-in team communication tool.

How SCREENish Huddle keeps your team’s conversations private

We think about privacy the way you do — in plain English. Here’s the honest picture of how we help you keep team conversations private:

• Everything runs on our own equipment. Huddle doesn’t hand your team’s calls, chats, or files to Zoom, Slack, Microsoft, or any other outside service. It all stays on infrastructure that SCREENish runs itself. This is genuinely self-hosted team chat — your talk never leaves hands you trust.
• Our server is a switchboard operator that keeps no record. Picture an old-fashioned operator who connects two people and then forgets they ever spoke. That’s our server: it introduces two teammates, passes things along, and saves nothing — no messages, no files, no recordings. Your calls and files are scrambled so the operator couldn’t make sense of them anyway, and your chat messages are gone from our side the instant they’re delivered.
• Nothing sensitive is ever stored. No saved messages, no stored files, no call recordings sitting on a server anywhere. There’s no online history to be leaked, hacked, handed over, or mined — because it was never kept in the first place.
• Your chat history stays on your computer, locked to it. Move that file to another machine and it won’t open. It belongs to one device: yours.
• Calls go straight between the people talking, scrambled the whole way — and even a firewall’s detour point can’t see or hear anything.
• Files go device to device and never touch a server — and a transfer that can’t stay private is stopped, not rerouted.
• Everything travels over secure, protected connections — the same kind of protection you rely on when you log into your bank’s website.

That’s what makes Huddle secure team communication software you can actually explain to your team without a technical manual.

How it’s different

Slack, Zoom, and Teams keep your chats, files, and recordings on their cloud, run by their company. Huddle keeps nothing sensitive on a server at all — your history lives on your own computer, and your files pass straight from one teammate to the next.

The big platforms are built to remember everything forever. Huddle is built to remember as little as possible. There’s no third party sitting in the middle of your team’s business, no server-side history waiting to be exposed, and no extra app to buy, per-seat chat fee, or separate login to juggle. It’s the private version of team chat, calls, and file sharing — your calls scrambled end to end, your chat kept off our servers entirely — already inside the app your team opens every day.

Frequently asked questions

Is SCREENish Huddle really private?
Yes. Your messages, calls, and files run on SCREENish’s own servers, never through Zoom, Slack, or other outside services, and nothing sensitive is ever stored where it could leak.

Where are my chat messages saved?
Only on your own computer. Our server passes each message along and forgets it, so there’s no chat history sitting on a server. The history saved on your device is locked to that device, so copying the file to another computer leaves it unreadable.

Are my calls and video secure?
Yes. Calls are scrambled and sent straight from one person’s device to another whenever possible. In the rare case a strict company firewall has to reroute them, the go-between still can’t see or hear anything.

What happens to files I send?
Files go directly from your device to your teammate’s and never touch a server. If a private direct connection can’t be made, the transfer is cancelled with a clear message rather than quietly rerouted. Files you receive land in your Downloads folder.

Who can message or call me?
Only people verified as members of your own team. Outsiders and strangers can’t reach you through Huddle.

How many people can join, and do I need to install anything?
Text chat is one-to-one, and a call can include a small group of up to four people. There’s nothing new to install — Huddle is built into SCREENish, so just update the app and open the Huddle tab.

Turn on Huddle and start talking privately today

Getting started takes seconds. Update SCREENish, open the Huddle tab, and your team directory is right there waiting. Send your first message, start a call, or share a file — all in a few clicks.

If you’ve been looking for a team chat app for small business that respects your privacy by design, this is it. Give your team a place to talk freely and share freely, knowing the conversation stays yours. Open Huddle and start talking privately today.

By SCREENish Team

What are we doing so? What mistakes do we make? How to control time and keep up with all the cases? So, here are the top 6 time control errors:

1. Prioritization is important

To Do-list is a useful and important tool. It helps to make a plan for the day, sometimes even to distribute tasks in time. However, if priorities are not placed in the cases, you can perform unimportant tasks and at the same time not have time to do something extremely important.

Managers who practice time control do not tire of recalling: always set a clear goal for the team and, in accordance with it, prioritize. Most managers use the rule: 80% of the time – priority tasks, 20% – secondary.

2. To indulge procrastination – a big mistake

This error can be a consequence of the previous one. It was quite common to postpone a difficult task, delaying its decision as long as possible. An important and difficult matter, as a rule, requires considerable effort. If you do small tasks – you can much easier spend a working day.

The main disadvantage here is not even in harm from delaying the task (although if you control the time, you can calculate the monetary expression of the loss of precious hours). The main harm is that as a result, the task, which will bring a significant result, will not be accomplished.

3. Evaluate your abilities correctly

Competent project time tracking software helps to soberly estimate how many hours or minutes this or that task will take. Often people think that it takes at most 10 minutes to complete it, and in fact it turns out to be 3-4 times more.

In order to better plan the working day, you can use special project time tracking software. It shows how much time you spend on certain cases, displays the average value for the selected period, and at the same time shows where you spend time inefficiently.

4. Level the distractions

Another point in which you will need project time tracking software. What distracts us from work more often? That’s right, mail, the Internet, social media sites. Systems like the one mentioned in the previous paragraph will help identify the main “devourers of time”. Then everything is in your hands: block notifications, pop-ups or, if necessary, access to these resources.

A great way to control time is to schedule incoming messages to be checked for a specific time. Then it won’t be tempting to check the mail every 3-5 minutes.

5. Time control is not a superfluous occupation

And again about the control of time and its calculation. Time management ideologists, before using its practice, are strongly encouraged to analyze: what, in fact, is your day spent on?
There are simple and complex ways to control time.

Complicated: a few days (usually 7 or 14) to measure the time to solve work assignments. Simple: install special project time tracking software, which will do all the work for you. The main purpose of this calculation is to analyze your day, identify errors and, on the contrary, best practices.

6. Multitasking is a myth

We want to do everything at once, manage to solve several tasks simultaneously and even more. However, there is scientific evidence that multitasking does not exist. In fact, this is a throwing between several cases, a low concentration on each of them and a high probability of errors.

What are the fears of being late?

The main minus of delays is that the company can simply lose customers. In the absence of a competent employee time tracking system, employees are in the office with regular delays. At this time, a potential or current client of the firm can call or personally look into the office. If he does not solve his problem, he will go to the competitor.

Unorganized control of staff is fraught with other drawbacks. The employee may be late because of insufficient motivation or low appreciation of his own place of work. In this case, the problem will not be solved until corporate values, professional control of personnel and the correct methods of motivation are introduced into the company’s work.

Do you have creative staff and, do not you think, they need employee time tracking? It’s just a stereotype. Creativity is one thing, respect for colleagues and clients, is different. Explain to employees that you are not “tightening up the nuts”, but instilling corporate standards and working on the reputation of the firm.

Another disadvantage of lack of staff control and frequent delays of subordinates may be discord in the team. The fact that everything is possible to one, and others fined for the smallest fault, will not bring your company anything good. The control of the personnel, if any, must be objective and impartial. Have you decided to take control of the delay? Conditions must be the same for everyone.

How to fix the situation?

I would like to make a reservation: the control of personnel in small organizations should be gentler than in a large company. Yet small and medium-sized firms are a group of like-minded people who go to the same goal, are motivated and aim at the result. In the strict control of personnel at this stage of development is not necessary.

In large companies, employee time tracking and other methods for staff control must be established clearly: the rules are written, the responsibility for their violation.

How to get rid of delays?

1. Give a personal example and ask other managers to maintain discipline. The rules for monitoring personnel should be the same for all.
2. Do not leave tardiness without attention, but do not “report” the subordinate publicly.
3. Enter the automated employee time tracking in the company. Such software will allow taking control of personnel to a new level. You will not only be able to control discipline, you will have data to analyze the entire work of the company.
4. Practice personal conversations with unscrupulous employees. In this case, you can even not strongly “press” on the employee. The situation when the leader personally understands the offense, in itself is very unpleasant.
5. The rules introduced in the company, should not be perceived formally. Meet them with new employees and emphasize that employee time tracking is serious.
6. Penalties for violators and bonuses for conscientious employees are not a panacea. Try to start non-material methods of motivating employees. Do not go the easy way, especially since in the long run it will not lead you to the desired result.

The control of personnel in modern organizations is an objective necessity. Remember that a young employee or a new employee of the company is almost never late in the first days of their work. Therefore, non-punctuality is just an excuse. Everything depends on the discipline and system of control of personnel in the enterprise.