TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. HR platform Rippling (Parker Conrad’s latest act) is one of its first customers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? 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.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Fountain also has plans for a big investment in the international market. Fountain is the latest company receiving investment for hourly worker tools. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

“Ageras has established a market leading and best-in-class product offering that is optimally positioned for international expansion and the rising demand for automated business tools,” said Rico Andersen, Ageras’ CEO who co-founded the company with Martin Hegelund, himself a serial investor who has backed the likes of Slack.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. G.Network, Revolut and Cazoo — are in the U.K. and other European markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In a Gartner poll , 59% of women knowledge workers — who, the poll found, are more likely than men to express a preference for remote work — think in-office employees will be seen as higher performers while 78% believe in-office workers are more likely to be promoted.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For example, a design agency uses Loopin to to track customer calls and share next steps internally at the end of each meeting. Varma said Loopin’s target customer are founders, senior executives and managers in cross-functional roles who spend a lot of time in meetings, plus knowledge workers in general.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The idea for the app comes from four computer science and software engineering students from the University of Waterloo, who previously interned at tech companies like Google, Facebook, Asana and Spotify. The startup plans to add support for more integrations going forward, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx and others. Team photo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

“[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. “Concretely, Allwhere provides white glove, personalized service at scale so internal teams can focus on other tasks,” Mattsson said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge workers, a term he uses to describe independent tech workers who freelance for different companies or gigs. The early adopters are independent workers who want to work or advise for a product team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

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. from Joitske, who answers from the perspective of nonprofits working for international development.

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

Wasted Time The average knowledge worker reports spending about 60% of their time on “work about work.” These tasks that focus on managing small tasks, workflows, processes, and internal management are time wasters that could be spent on strategic planning and mission-critical work.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

So we proved that thesis internally and then ultimately made that the strategy of Vimeo, and our investors and board gave me the opportunity to run it. We have been very clear that we’re really focused on helping large organizations, Fortune 500 companies, use video to communicate internally and externally.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our fund targets two primary themes: B2B vertical SaaS and SaaS-enabled businesses/marketplaces, and broadly what we call knowledge worker tools — DevOps, cybersecurity and other typically product-led horizontal applications. We love diverse companies, international mindset and execution over anything else.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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 plan will be to continue doubling down on the opportunity in the U.S. as well as to start moving into other markets internationally.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

We conducted BEx 2025 in November 2024, surveying 1,000 members of the general population adults and 500 knowledge workers. Knowledge workers overwhelmingly support transparent AI development, with 81% emphasizing security, 78% ethical oversight, and 77% privacy. Communication builds trust.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

If knowledge workers are merely promptly AI and instructing the AI agents to work for them, are humans still working? When work became hard to see One of the great historical transitions in the knowledge economy is that as work became more “intellectual,” it also became less visible.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

A team of international researchers has used a new 3D-printing technique to create microfibers just 1.5 Now, engineers have managed to produce extremely fine fibers inspired by spider silk and hagfish slime. microns thick.” ‘Not anytime soon anyway.’

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

Embrace knowledge as power Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker” to highlight the role of continuous learning and data-informed decision-making in organizational success. “The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.”

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

U3 is like a blazing-fast intern, and engineers are learning how to wrangle its sleepless energy. 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.

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