sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Job cuts across all industries have increased 396% compared to the first quarter of 2022. Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work. Shifting the bulk of busy work to automation can lead to higher job satisfaction and work engagement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That’s to say nothing about my job. If you’re a “knowledge worker,” you invariably end your day with a slew of tabs that collectively become your to-do list, your reading list, your shopping list, your assorted communications channels. But not my tabs.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

“We view our main competitors as soul-crushing tasks that every knowledge worker finds themselves doing every day — like typing the same message over and over or copy-and-pasting data across tabs. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.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

And that, in turn, has made being able to communicate with employees, who increasingly feel disconnected from their jobs, even more important. “There was a point when Ryan and I were just looking for inspiration for improving the products that we were building and engaging with [at Twitter],” Kunjappu said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

startup that builds fleet management software to help track and direct jobs to those on the go whose “offices” tend to be vehicles, has closed a round of £75 million ($102 million at today’s rates). For those who are on the road, it has apps to better manage their jobs and routes (which it calls JourneyWatch).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

It will be using the funding both to continue enhancing its product to target more verticals, and to expand to more markets: the plan is to be live also in Texas, Arizona and Nevada by 2023. “Every Friday the workers were paid, so I spent every Thursday collecting time cards in the field.” When he initally moved to the U.S.,

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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. ’ That’s been interesting,” van der Voort said.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

While both Toptal and Andela have built businesses around the idea of remote freelancers filling tech jobs — a concept that has increased in profile and acceptance as people shifted to remote work during the pandemic — the pair only emerged as very direct competitors in the last year or so.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Brookings: The AI revolutions winners and losers wont be who or where youd think A new Brookings Institution analysis of AIs effects on jobs and job losses suggests highly educated urban workers will be most at risk of losing their jobs. Brookings, a D.C.-based

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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. “So

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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. “This growing problem was not only destroying productivity, but also sapping energy and detracting from the employee experience.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

At a product lab called Adept that emerged from stealth today with $65 million in funding, they are — in the founders’ words — “build[ing] general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.” ” It’s lofty stuff. billion in 2020 to $19.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It has dabbled in virtual job fairs, as a pointer to one potential product that it might explore. 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 1.5

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

If your organization has flexible work systems in place, then a "carpocalypse" such as this won't have nearly the destructive impact that it otherwise could on your team's productivity. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework. Remote Work. But maybe you're not convinced.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Most expressed concerns about remote employees’ perceived lack of focus, negative impact on company culture, and productivity issues. “[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. Emerging from stealth today with $9.5

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Within the next five years, Kahn predicts AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity. For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker.

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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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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

And while doing that job, I developed a point of view, myself and a few others within the company, that we probably weren’t going to compete well with Netflix in original content because we probably weren’t going to have $17 billion to spend on it. We’ve always been a subscription product. That product’s called our Vimeo OTT product.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Motion CEO Harry Qi says that the new cash will be put toward product development and engineering as well as overall hiring. Qi, who co-launched Motion in 2019 alongside Omid Rooholfada and Ethan Yu, estimates that knowledge workers spend 58% of their day on average coordinating work instead of actually accomplishing it.

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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 invest in fintech, healthcare tech, consumer tech and consumer products.

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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 customers love the product and culture is really good. We’ve got something great and it’s time to go for it.”

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

How can you measure productivity you cant see? Ironically, this means that the more you get paid for doing what you dobecause specialized skills and in-demand jobs tend to involve operating in abstract, intellectual, and symbolic processes rather than visible, tangible, observable workthe harder it is to know if you are any good at it.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The research team surveyed 319 "knowledge workers" basically, folks who solve problems for work, though definitions vary about their experiences using generative AI products in the workplace.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 12, 2025

Our latest research study found that 90% of knowledge workers, people managers, HR, and business executives see learning and career development as personally importantan increase of 13 percentage points since 2021. Yet, many employees still operate with a “know-it-all” mindset, resisting new information or perspectives.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Rather than displacing highly skilled professionals, AI is setting the stage for knowledge workers to transition from individual contributors into high-leverage managers, directing teams of AI agents that can execute tasks with breathtaking efficiency. The current wave of AI pessimism ignores previous historical trends. Start learning.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

Still, while a four-day workweek can help alleviate certain workplace challenges, it isn’t a viable option in every job or industry. Also, this type of restructuring may have little benefit for shift workers with long hours. There are some types of businesses that simply cannot shut down for a full day each week.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Within the next five years, Kahn predicts AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity. For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots necessary for every knowledge worker.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

But unfortunately, part of my job as an AI safety researcher is to think about the more troubling scenarios. The product and the name are alike. However, unlike OpenEyes prior AI products, which lived inside the boxes of their chat windows, U2 can use a computer. Ripples before waves The year is 2025 and the month is February.

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 3, 2025

But how could I give up the many apps Ive become dependent on to do my job and keep up with my family? It feels impossible for some people parents, knowledge workers, Spotify fanatics to live without a smartphone. I have a wife, a baby, and a job that demands knowing whats happening in the world on a daily basis.

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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. Besides, he told himself, the doctors and the first responders and the essential workers — these people needed him. He knew how to wrangle a product from point A to point B.

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