TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. “There are 5.9 and try their luck there.

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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. and Canada, and it currently has some 100,000 service professionals using the platform. Image: Workiz.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The first is that gone are the days of someone applying to a job in person: today, 80% of people apply via a mobile device, making it easier to apply for multiple jobs at the same time. The remote-first company provides an applicant tracking system aimed at the 82 million people considered hourly workers in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

While Sambhi positions Magical as an RPA platform, it’s more akin to a text expander. When asked about data retention, Sambhi said that Magical stores metadata but not any of the underlying data that the platform moves. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

When you hear the word “intranet,” chances are your mind is conjuring up images of badly designed internal communications platforms from the early aughts: a place for your internal communications team to post announcements you’re not going to read. The company today announced that it has raised a $4.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium businesses to find accountants, is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. Pennylane raises $18.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

his first work experience was to help out in his family’s construction firm, where he was tasked with any and all odd jobs relating to admin and more. “Every Friday the workers were paid, so I spent every Thursday collecting time cards in the field.” Hourly’s own birth came out of Sagi’s own experiences.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

It works with tech companies and others to open up opportunities for people who have not had any higher education or any training, where fresh high school graduates can come in, learn the ropes of a job while getting paid and then continue on working their way up the ladder with that knowledge base in place.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.

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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. They log in much as you might on any other work-based app, based on the company you work for and your mobile number or email.)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The war for talent in the tech world can be brutal — and so, it turns out, can the war between platforms that help companies source it. On top of this, these two are hardly the only two places to for tech talent to connect with remote freelance job opportunities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Whether you’re working on something new according to your Twitter bio, or self-employed, according to your LinkedIn bio, founder Ben Huffman thinks his platform, Contra, will be the best way for independent workers to explain and monetize what they are working on.

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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. The focus in the next year will be on hiring and scaling operations as well as expanding the capabilities of Allwhere’s platform, he said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

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. The emergence in recent years of AI algorithms that can parse natural language has fueled the rise of platforms that can shrink that chunk.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. How can you defend your business and position it to excel if AI does become the dominant technology platform in the next five years? Are you ready for that shift?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Yeah, so probably the most important part of the background is: Vimeo is a 16-year-old video platform, but we’re really three, four years into a very different strategy. So YouTube wants to attract creators and content to their platform. I joined the company about six years ago as a director of marketing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Workday investment is notable because it shows that the HR platform is eyeing up how it might be doing more in corporate learning and targeting deskless workers in particular (both would be natural complements to its current platform), and this could well lead, more widely, to some M&A down the line for it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Berlin-based startup wants to bring AI-powered workflow automation to anyone, letting knowldge workers automate tedious, repetitive and manual parts of their job without the need to learn how to code. in pre-seed funding led by Gil Dibner’s Angular Ventures. This, of course, is where machine learning come into play. “We

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

Corporate workers in the U.S. on average , according to data from the workforce analytics platform ActivTrak. Still, while a four-day workweek can help alleviate certain workplace challenges, it isn’t a viable option in every job or industry. are now clocking out at 4:39 p.m. they seem to be working less on average.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots necessary for every knowledge worker. How can you defend your business and position it to excel if AI does become the dominant technology platform in the next five years? Are you ready for that shift?

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