Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Mastering AI by Jeremy Kahn is absolutely a must-read for every business leader who wants to better understand the history and evolution of AI (Artificial Intelligence), and more important, the promise and perils of AI for businesses and society. We must apply our own natural intelligence, creativity, and wisdom.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

DeepSee.ai , a startup that helps enterprises use AI to automate line-of-business problems, today announced that it has raised a $22.6 The company also stresses that it doesn’t aim to replace knowledge workers but help them leverage AI to turn the plethora of data that businesses now collect into actionable insights.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

When you think of Slack, you probably think of a chat app that’s growing in popularity for businesses large and small. Slack Connect is enabling businesses to use Slack in new ways that go beyond just traditional human-to-human communications. Slack obviously has a big incentive to gradually move businesses away from email.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hourly workers make up abut 55% of the working world , yet when it comes to tech built for the world of work, their so-called knowledge worker counterparts dominate the space. Founded in Minneapolis in 2010, When I Work says its app is already used by some some 10 million hourly workers in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria. We have a strong understanding of the kind of information people need.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on external physical changes in sound, vibration and temperature, a startup that has already built a big business in the space is announcing a big growth round of funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Personio is an interesting company to consider in comparison to Hibob: it is bigger but also has smaller businesses in its mix of customers. HR, being focused on people management, is in a way at the heart of how a company runs its whole business, so there are a lot of routes it can take.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Moody and Xu say the platform is designed to augment knowledge workers in their typical responsibilities, like reading through pages of information, extracting the pieces relevant to a particular question and transforming the information into an answer or a report.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

How Automation Can Help You Retain Fundraisers Automating business processes saves time and resources so your team can focus on support for your cause and the more challenging elements of the job, instead of the repetitive, monotonous tasks that sap energy and so much of a fundraiser’s time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

As businesses try to bring their SaaS spending under control, that may turn out to be a smart approach. Image Credits: Cleary With that, businesses can use the platform to build anything from on-boarding experiences to hosting live events. The idea behind Cleary then is to offer a full-stack employee experience platform.

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Produce reports on subjects related to your industry, and ask it to identify new opportunities or helpful insights to grow your business. Read More

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Sambhi claims that over 300,000 users and more than 10,000 businesses use Magical, including teams within Disney, Facebook, Salesforce, and Uber. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said. At the moment, Magical doesn’t charge for its services.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium businesses to find accountants, is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments. million users. “We now know more about small-scale farmers than anyone else, because they talk to us.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

“We had 30-40 hourly employees, and I helped with everything on the business side including HR,” he recalled. “Every Friday the workers were paid, so I spent every Thursday collecting time cards in the field.” Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Depending on which non-immigrant visa you pursue, you may be able to avoid having to go through an in-person consular interview through the end of this year since you went through the interview process for your L-1B intracompany transferee specialized knowledge worker visa. The B-1 will enable you to enter the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2021

Bad meetings are the fast food of the knowledge worker; it’s so deliciously quick and easy to throw a 60-minute default meeting on everyone’s schedule, but the long-term costs are extremely unhealthy. Busy meeting organizers drive-thru schedule meetings because they think they don’t have time to plan.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has built a business by tapping into the advances of technology to build apps for field service engineers and those back at the mothership who run operations and help manage their jobs, workers who in the past might have used phone calls, paperwork and lots of extra round trips between offices and sites in order to run things.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails Keeps AI Agents on Track AI is rapidly boosting productivity for a broad range of business processes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

And that has proven to be a big business for AnyDesk. Part of AnyDesk’s attraction is the speed at which it works, but part of it is also how it is priced: individuals can use it for free, while business users can buy services in a variety of tiers starting at around $10/month.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. “There are 5.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

But today, a startup that is exploring a different route for those interested in technology and knowledge worker positions — specifically by way of apprenticeships to bring in and train younger people on the job — is announcing a significant round of growth funding to see if it can provide a credible, scalable alternative to that model.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

In the latest developement, Toptal — a marketplace for filling engineering and other tech roles with freelance, remote workers — has filed a lawsuit against direct competitor Andela and several of its employees, alleging the theft of trade secrets in pursuit of “a perfect clone of its business”, according to the complaint.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Apps catering to frontline workers are seeing a surge of interest in the market these days, as businesses finally start to wake up to using tech to better connect with these employees, and investors eye up an interesting and new growth opportunity in enterprise IT. The global opportunity is a big one, with an estimated 2.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Two years ago , we profiled Okay, an engineering visibility tool helping engineering managers lead effective and engaged teams, which was fresh out of Y Combinator with $2.2 million in new funding in its pocket.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Today, a startup that is building tools to improve that experience is announcing a big round of funding to expand its business. The Tel Aviv-based startup has raised $92 million to date and counts big companies like Unilever, Pepsi, MetLife, HSBC and ADP among its customers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It is already doing business in 77 countries, and Behr would like to do a push into Asia, Europe and the U.K. Fountain is the latest company receiving investment for hourly worker tools. Fountain also has plans for a big investment in the international market.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shiftsmart touts a customer list that includes Circle K, Humana, Deloitte, Airbnb and the Small Business Administration. Much of the technology built for staffing centered around knowledge workers, but a number of companies like Shiftsmart, focused on hourly workers, have also received investor attention lately.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

But in a separate poll by McKinsey , 87% of workers said that they would embrace the opportunity to work remotely when given the choice. As a piece in Computerworld points out , hybrid work can become a “minefield of unfairness,” rewarding people who are more able and willing to work in the office.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Originally founded in Paris, France before relocating to San Francisco, SightCall has already built up a sizable business across a pretty wide range of verticals, including insurance, telecoms, transportation, telehealth, manufacturing, utilities and life sciences/medical devices. More on how it works below.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

That’s not shocking — his startup, Allwhere , sells businesses tools for facilitating remote work. “[But] after two years of remote and hybrid work, nearly half of knowledge workers still do not have the tools they need to do their job. Oscar Mattsson is of a different opinion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge workers, a term he uses to describe independent tech workers who freelance for different companies or gigs. The early adopters are independent workers who want to work or advise for a product team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But even when all the other productivity boxes have been checked, Teamraderie speaks to another challenge that exists in the workplace, specifically the knowledge worker workplace, that of improving our relationships with each other as a route to working better together. “We’re not just a content company.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. First and foremost, it will go toward expanding its business to more markets.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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