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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

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It also has support for multiple logins, granular notification controls and the ability to search across all these third-party apps (it offers “hundreds” currently but says users can add custom adds “which would function just like a bookmark”) right from the browser. Browsers are interesting again.

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As companies search for hourly workers, Fountain brings in $85M to assist them

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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. Second, there are many more options for hourly workers than fast-food and retail: people can drive for ride-sharing or food delivery or work at the new Amazon warehouse a few miles away.

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

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hours per week, on average — searching for and gathering information. But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find basic contact info or domain-specific files. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8

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Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet

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To some degree, that hasn’t changed, but employee expectations have — and so has the work environment, especially as the pandemic has made work-from-home and hybrid work the default at many companies. As businesses try to bring their SaaS spending under control, that may turn out to be a smart approach.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

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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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SightCall raises $42M for its AR-based visual assistance platform

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The core of its service, explained CEO and co-founder Thomas Cottereau, is AR technology (which comes embedded in their apps or the service apps its customers use, with integrations into other standard software used in customer service environments including Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow).

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How Online Work Can Save America

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In GreenTech we've explored how telework, or working remotely via the Internet, is good for the environment and will likely change the modern office. Here's a look at how telework can create jobs for low wage workers. Specifically, she focused on its potential to provide incomes to poor people in both rich and poor countries.

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