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Reform your startup’s meeting culture

TechCrunch

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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Oyster, an HR platform for distributed workforces, snaps up $50M on a $475M valuation

TechCrunch

The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Not only are more people wanting to work further afield, but at “home”, many companies — especially those who need to fill knowledge worker roles — are facing talent shortages.

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Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet

TechCrunch

“With COVID, what’s happening is that the same challenges around communications, culture, productivity are coming down market to a much smaller company. But what’s maybe most important to HR teams right now is using a service like Cleary to help them scale their culture. ” Cleary raises $4.5M

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

TechCrunch

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. “We believe Miro sits at a powerful intersection between asynchronous and synchronous work that captures and ignites creative processes everywhere.

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When I Work, a messaging app that lets shift-based teams schedule work and more, raises $200M

TechCrunch

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. “The customers love the product and culture is really good. We’ve got something great and it’s time to go for it.”

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Robin raises $30M to expand its office reservation software as companies embrace hybrid work

TechCrunch

According to a survey from GoodHire , 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss of company culture. But in a separate poll by McKinsey , 87% of workers said that they would embrace the opportunity to work remotely when given the choice.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Marcus Buckingham Question : What’s fundamentally wrong with our current emphasis on workplace culture?

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