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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. While that in itself is a great idea that definitely fills a need for businesses, it has also been compounded by recent changing tides. This is not just for greater good, though. Poor onboarding is the enemy of good hiring.

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HR platform Hibob raises $150M at a $1.65B valuation

TechCrunch

The tasks that comprise human resources — in Hibob’s case, tracking attendance, time off, compensation, payroll, benefits and running surveys — are usually seen as some of the more dry, and often overly officious, aspects of working life.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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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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What Business Leaders Need To Know About Artificial Intelligence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. Until now, there was no good way to turn that tacit knowledge into data that a company could use. Until now, there was no good way to turn that tacit knowledge into data that a company could use.

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Teamraderie, a B2B MasterClass-style platform for team building, raises $7M

TechCrunch

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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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Blogging most definitely helps you and your career and your learning. So it improves productivity.

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data.” The Open Knowledge Foundation is a great advocacy charity in that field. What Is Big Data Anyway?

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