TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

too, with not just talent but more money going into regions beyond the usual suspects. Here, it’s one of the many companies that have dived into the area of building apps and larger pieces of software aimed not at “knowledge workers” but those who do not sit at desks, are on the move and tend to work with their hands.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners). General Atlantic led the round, with past investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Eight Roads and Entrée Capital among the others investing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

For the longest time, a lot of the most interesting innovations have been focused on so-called “knowledge workers” — those who typically get salaries, use computers and desks, and might well be paid much higher overall. Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

In a global economy with an estimated 1 billion so-called knowledge workers, and with freelancers accounting for some 35% of the world’s workforce , it’s a pretty gigantic market, which you could alternately look at as a major opportunity, but also a ripe field for many players with multiple permutations of the marketplace concept.

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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. and try their luck there. “The lightbulb went off.

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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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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

JUNE 16, 2021

Gloat , which has built an AI-based platform that it sells to organizations to power their internal job boards, has picked up $57 million in funding, money that it will be using to continue business development, as well as to continue adding more features to its own platform, for example to expand deeper into openings for contractors and to open up (..)

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The valuation of this round is not being disclosed, but I should point out that an investor told me that PitchBook’s estimate of $122 million post-money is not accurate (we’re still digging on this and will update as and when we learn more).

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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. And these are just some of the HR startups that have raised money in the last year; there are many, many more. “There are 1.5

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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. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day — 9.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. If however you want:- - more viruses & security holes - wasted tax payers money - closed certification & training - hardware upgrade cycles (and hardware disposal issues) - data ownership issues (open standards) then promote and use proprietary systems!

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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. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

Measuring objectives and key results are core to every enterprise, perhaps more so these days since knowledge workers began working remotely in greater numbers last year. After spending much of the week covering 2021’s frothy IPO market, Alex Wilhelm devoted this morning’s column to studying the OKR-focused software sector.

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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. What is happening in Miami now that you’re most excited to fund?

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

So one of the things that’s really interesting about that is you talked about how much money Netflix has to spend on content. Warner Media is going to spend all of AT&T’s money on content. Kind of at the basic level, YouTube doesn’t spend any money on content compared to the amount of content on YouTube.

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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. But he thought, well, there are only three ways to get rich: inherit it, sell something with mass appeal, or get in between money moving. A lot of money was moving. He still hadn’t made any money.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

’ The outlook for software engineers offers a window into the impact thatgenerative AIthe kind behind chatbots like OpenAIs ChatGPTis likely to have on knowledge workers across the economy, from doctors and lawyers to marketing managers and financial analysts.” . ‘Not anytime soon anyway.’

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