TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The problem that Business Canvas has identified and is building solutions to target is the challenge faced by people who are tasked with ingesting information and producing writing or decisions based on that: lawyers, entrepreneurs, researchers, students and communications workers like journalists among them.

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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

“With COVID, what’s happening is that the same challenges around communications, culture, productivity are coming down market to a much smaller company. A company with 50 home offices starts to see the same challenges as a 500-person company in two locations,” he said. ” Cleary raises $4.5M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

In our view, Miro’s culture of customer centricity makes it well-positioned to address a myriad of use cases across hybrid work for more than a billion knowledge workers globally. It’s a big challenge to scale at that pace, especially being fully remote. We’ve tried to serve the demand and make sure every experience is good.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The world of hourly workers has never seen a more challenging environment like the one we are in now,” Fountain CEO Sean Behr told TechCrunch. The remote-first company provides an applicant tracking system aimed at the 82 million people considered hourly workers in the U.S. That’s where Fountain comes in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Whether that’s remotely or physically collaborative, our customers face challenges with work. Our mission is to modernize HR technology,” Ronni Zehavi, Hibob’s CEO, who co-founded the company with Israel David, told me last December. “We We are a people-management platform for how people work today. We believe it should be different.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services. BigChange raises $102M for a platform to help manage service fleets. “At this point we focus on SaaS and making a best-of-breed solution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

” He believes that because his company has a very different kind of focus, its scores will be more useful and acceptable to users. .

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Technology can pose as many productivity challenges as it solves, according to a Gartner/Deloitte report. billion knowledge workers, equaling a trillion hours per year. That’s 800 hours times 1.25 This is true for frontline fundraisers, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And the evolution of that to expand to more knowledge worker jobs is not especially new, either. Marketplaces are one way to solve that challenge, and in that regard, it’s no surprise to see the reports that LinkedIn is eyeing up building its own marketplace for skilled workers. Pennylane raises $18.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Besides competing against office scheduling startups like Envoy , Officely and OfficeRnD , Robin’s major challenge is proving that hybrid work has staying power. But it’s unclear to what extent the platform does so. We’ve asked Remley for clarification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Saying “No” more to requests that take up your time can be challenging in the workplace. Sending a short summary of progress made and any issues or challenges ahead of a meeting.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

At enterprises of a certain size, keeping track of data including apps, employees, and projects becomes increasingly challenging. The veracity of metrics like these has been challenged over the years. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day — 9.3

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion knowledge workers coming into the workforce in the next 10 years, mostly from emerging economies, while in developed economies there are some 90 million jobs unfilled,” Jamous said. “There are super powers you can gain from being globally distributed, but it poses a major challenge around HR and payroll.”

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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. That paradigm has drastically shifted in recent years, however.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

Wasted Time The average knowledge worker reports spending about 60% of their time on “work about work.” Access: As nonprofit CRMs are a niche product, it can be challenging to find the right one for your organization. Expertise: Without a deep understanding of CRMs, it can be challenging to know which platform is best.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2015

This MuseumCamp will be challenging–but not in a frenetic, obstacle course way. It will challenge us to confront blank canvases, empower others, and take care of ourselves. For knowledge workers. You can make space by inviting non-traditional partners into your work. MuseumCamp is for activists. For designers.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

days include lightning talks from campers, team design bursts to tackle your thorniest change challenges, MAH community programming, movement and meditation, delicious food, and late-night conversations. For knowledge workers. As always, MuseumCamp will be a high-energy, all-in experience. Yes you can sleep at the museum.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

And it’s a challenge for us. And so it’s just something that we, from an awareness perspective — most startups, their challenge is making people aware of what they do. And so it’s just something that we, from an awareness perspective — most startups, their challenge is making people aware of what they do.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Into this scenario arrives Flown , an online platform that will match knowledge workers with inspiring properties already set up for productive and ergonomic remote work, as well as providing an array of online tools and resources to help them. Flown is essentially wrapping up into one package the knowledge workers’ wish-list.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

What are some of the local challenges you’ve encountered or seen founders struggle with? What are some of the local challenges you’ve encountered or seen founders struggle with? What are some of the local challenges you’ve encountered or seen founders struggle with?

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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. They log in much as you might on any other work-based app, based on the company you work for and your mobile number or email.)

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Ars Technica

MARCH 21, 2025

OpenAI is quietly seeding expectations for a "PhD-level" AI agent that could operate autonomously at the level of a "high-income knowledge worker" in the near future. It's a project the company said shows "glimmers of AI systems that tackle challenges with increasing competence, not just through training but with generalized reasoning."

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Ars Technica

MARCH 7, 2025

Other reportedly planned agents include a "high-income knowledge worker" assistant at $2,000 monthly and a software developer agent at $10,000 monthly. For example, OpenAI's o1 series models reportedly performed well in science, coding, and math tests, with results similar to human PhD students on challenging tasks.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Artificial intelligence and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are rapidly becoming two of the most challenging and consequential communication arenas for modern companies. We conducted BEx 2025 in November 2024, surveying 1,000 members of the general population adults and 500 knowledge workers. Communication builds trust.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

The challenges of a four-day workweek At tech companies like Bolt and Kickstarter , the shift to a four-day workweek has been popular with employees and a selling point for prospective talent. Still, while a four-day workweek can help alleviate certain workplace challenges, it isn’t a viable option in every job or industry.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

The firm assessed Food For The Poor’s challenges, developed a future-focused technology strategy, and outlined a clear action plan for digital transformation. Embrace knowledge as power Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker” to highlight the role of continuous learning and data-informed decision-making in organizational success.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As U2 trains, it sculpts more challenging and realistic tasks from github repositories on the internet. truly is a drop-in replacement for some (20%) of knowledge workers and a game-changing assistant for most others. Nova is a proper drop-in replacement for nearly all knowledge workers.

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 3, 2025

It feels impossible for some people parents, knowledge workers, Spotify fanatics to live without a smartphone. It’s going to be a challenge. About nine out of 10 Americans own a smartphone , and Id guess many of them have passed a point of no return, when it comes to connected living. For others, its simply inconvenient.

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