TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time. billion people globally, who never sit at computers to do their jobs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments. Image Credits: Wefarm (opens in a new window). million users.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

A lot of the focus in recruitment these days has been on better technology to connect people to job opportunities at new organizations, but that also leaves a wide opening to focus on one of the other big funnels for finding work: internal transfers. I’m not fully convinced that may always be the case.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those users are very engaged, CEO Sean Nolan tells me, with some 72% of all users opening it on average 13 times a day to check things like pay slips, shift rostering, holiday and overtime pay, to chat with each other and read their company’s latest announcements. The global opportunity is a big one, with an estimated 2.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You may have visited some quick-service restaurants or other retailers in the past few months and noticed signs posted with shortened hours or not being open on a certain day. Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” the mass exodus of hourly workers over the past 18 months has now resulted in a competition for talent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shiftsmart , a New York-based labor management resource, is the latest to see some love from investors, bringing in $95 million in Series B funding for its workforce management software that matches hourly workers with open shifts across a variety of industry verticals and roles. The company will also do additional hiring.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Keisha Taylor is TechSoup Global's senior manager for business planning and research for our Global Data Services work. She also likes the big data for good work coming out of the UN Global Pulse initiative. The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. The UN Global Pulse initiative.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

There has been an interesting wave of startups emerging in recent years building out the tech stack used by people working in the front lines and in the field, a shift after years of knowledge workers getting most of the attention from startups building a new generation of apps.

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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. “Many field services need software because our expectations as consumers are changing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days, but a lot has been left on the table when it comes to frontline workers. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s estimated that there are 2.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Image Credits: Joanna Buniak / Sophie Alcorn (opens in a new window). Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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. While tech titans pump AI labor into the world like a plume of fertilizer, they don't wait for the global economy to adapt.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. She worked in fashion and had come to the United States hoping to open a showroom for designers from back home. Illustrations by Emily Lopez for The Verge. His first move was to level up his home life.

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