WordPress parent company Automattic makes its own internal collaboration tool available as a separate project with the goal of making remote work easier for distributed teams and organizations. The tool, called P2, has been used by Automattic for 15 years to enable it to succeed as a fully distributed company with more than 1.200 employees working in 77 countries. However, this is the first time P2 has been released on its own to help facilitate collaboration between large and small teams. With more people working from home than ever before, Automattic has seen a lot of interest in its distributed work best practices, so the company decided to create a refined version of its own team collaboration tool.
P2
Unlike other collaboration tools, P2 focuses on asynchronous and easily accessible communication across all time zones. Teams small and large will be able to use it to organize plans, projects, and big ideas while communicating with their entire company. P2 is an ideal companion to other real-time tools such as workplace chat applications and video conferencing software. It can be used as an internal blog that keeps teams and organizations away from siled inboxes and also helps prevent messages from getting lost in real-time chat. Teams working together on any type of project can write and publish regular updates using P2. Through comments on posts, teams can come to a consensus and together decide what to do next. P2 can also be used to share photos, videos, GIFs and graphics or to take surveys and share quotes and summaries of the day's work. Using P2, teams will see updates on the web, via email notifications, and in the WordPress mobile apps. The current version of Automattic's collaboration tool is free for all users, but a premium version with more features is also in development.