TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. “Before Magical, I founded a company called Careerify , an HR tech startup that was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015. But the goal is to introduce paid plans with premium features in the future. ”

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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 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. The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

We’ve seen a boom in the last several years around tech built for front-line, service, manual, and other workforces typically paid on an hourly wage. 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.

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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. in tech-heavy Santa Clara County to just 26.7% in rural Mono County.

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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. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tech, meanwhile, is unique to SightCall, built over years and designed to be used by way of a basic smartphone, and over even a basic mobile network — essential in cases where reception is bad or the locations are remote. SightCall has raised $67 million to date. “The video solution has to work.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Samsung later acquired Viv, folding a pared-down version of the tech into its Bixby voice assistant. ” At Google, Luan was the overall tech lead for what he describes as the “large models effort” at Google Brain, one of tech giant’s preeminent research divisions.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Currently, Oyster does not cover candidate sourcing or any of the interviewing and evaluation process: those could be areas where it might build its own tech or partner to provide them as part of its one-stop shop. It has dabbled in virtual job fairs, as a pointer to one potential product that it might explore. “There are 1.5

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Here's a look at how telework can create jobs for low wage workers. Cloud based microwork is also happening in the United States and other developed countries, but is not much spoken about in the endless debates about job creation during a very long recession. Some of these cloud microworkers are located in refugee camps.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Despite the fact that many knowledge workers could efficiently and effectively do their work from home, most organizations default to a management and evaluation style designed for factory workers. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework.

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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. I joined the company about six years ago as a director of marketing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Miami is quickly becoming a symbol for the tech exodus from Silicon Valley. The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. 8 Miami-area investors assess America’s southernmost tech ecosystem. How do you see these factors impacting the city’s tech evolution?

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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

JANUARY 19, 2021

While it’s been assumed that to get into tech, the obvious route was a two-to-four year (and often more) tour through college or university to pick up a higher education degree, the bet that Multiverse is making here is that apprenticeships can easily, and widely, become another. These typically last 1.5

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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 11, 2025

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. So, why do these jobs persist?

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Futurism

APRIL 10, 2025

As billionaire tech moguls ravish public research funds and startups siphon knowledge workers into pie-in-the-sky venture capitalist schemes , one professor has found his own key to innovation: scientists who are able to do crucial lab work withoutgoing broke. Its not even eating your seed corn. Its just destroying it."

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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. AI agent managers are just one example. So, How Do We Get Ready for This Shift?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

The challenges of a four-day workweek At tech companies like Bolt and Kickstarter , the shift to a four-day workweek has been popular with employees and a selling point for prospective talent. Still, while a four-day workweek can help alleviate certain workplace challenges, it isn’t a viable option in every job or industry.

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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. A fraction of workers with form-filler jobs raise the eyebrows of their bosses as they fly through work nearly twice as quickly. In a year or two, some say, AI agents might be able to automate 10% of remote workers.

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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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