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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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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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Allwhere launches out of stealth to help companies manage their remote workforces

TechCrunch

Most expressed concerns about remote employees’ perceived lack of focus, negative impact on company culture, and productivity issues. “[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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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. This research is the most precious knowledge we have about what animates great teams and their leaders, and is the foundation of the book.

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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

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. This research is the most precious knowledge we have about what animates great teams and their leaders, and is the foundation of the book.

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