The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield claimed earlier this month that Microsoft Teams isn’t a competitor to Slack. In an interview with The Verge , Butterfield has revealed that, inside Slack, the company feels that “Microsoft is perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with killing us, and Teams is the vehicle to do that.”. It’s well worth a listen.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After years of being overlooked in favor of so-called knowledge workers — those who sit at screens day in, day out and are more likely to be using software all the time — frontline workers are experiencing a kind of renaissance in the world of enterprise IT. The global opportunity is a big one, with an estimated 2.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

million, which the company will use to grow the engineering team and launch on Product Hunt next month. Despite the fact that spreadsheets are crucial to normal business operations, there are multiple use cases for sales teams, finances teams, etc., The raise brings Causal’s total funding to $5.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The growing trends of hiring and running remote workforces, and more recently the major upheaval of restructuring across a number of industries, have redefined and disrupted the concept of teams at work. “Our reason for being is to ensure that teams can really collaborate effectively,” McCarroll said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Two years ago , we profiled Okay, an engineering visibility tool helping engineering managers lead effective and engaged teams, which was fresh out of Y Combinator with $2.2 What we’ve seen in the past couple years is a transition for people, managers and teams on how to manage teams fully remote,” Boulanger added.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails Keeps AI Agents on Track AI is rapidly boosting productivity for a broad range of business processes.

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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. We are delighted to join the Workiz team.” But, it also remains a key way to connect with customers especially when there are delays.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

“The vision for Slack has always been to build Slack Connect so that the benefits you get for channel-based communication within your own organization you’ll get when communicating with everyone,” says Tamar Yehoshua, Slack’s chief product officer, in an interview with The Verge. Microsoft Teams is Slack’s biggest competitor. “In

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Pouyan Salehi says that he wasn’t really looking to add capital, but the investors understood his vision and the money will help accelerate the product roadmap. Traditionally, sales teams don’t like the tools that are thrust upon them. Sacks says that he liked the viral way the product has been spreading.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Not only are more people wanting to work further afield, but at “home”, many companies — especially those who need to fill knowledge worker roles — are facing talent shortages.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

“Visual collaboration is something that allows teams in companies to better be on the same page. Since our initial investment, Miro has scaled with tremendous momentum, strong market leadership, and incredible product velocity,” said Matthew Jacobson, general partner at Iconiq Growth and Miro board member, in a written statement. “We

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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. “We looked at what else was available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The software — which only supports Chrome for now — detects and “remembers” elements on webpages, enabling the sharing of shortcuts (called “magic packs”) with other users and teams. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Collaboration features let teams share, edit and comment on notes and directly attach them to shared calendars for faster reference. One source estimates that document disorganization costs businesses $3,900 per employee each year in productivity losses, making Mem an attractive proposition if the tech works as advertised.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

If your fundraising team is stressed and stretched too thin, you’re not alone. Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work. Burnout is widespread. Job cuts across all industries have increased 396% compared to the first quarter of 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. Forbes reports that the valuation was “at least” $1 billion.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Here are 5 popular applications data teams at OpenAI, Vimeo, and other companies are putting into practice today. The hype around generative AI is real, and data and ML teams are feeling the heat. And financial products and firms are ripe with potential use cases for generative AI. Getting started with LLMs?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria. The company says its userbase has grown mainly organically at around 6.5%

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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. Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The startup plans to add support for more integrations going forward, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx and others. Team photo. Wanting to build a startup of their own, the team applied to the accelerator Y Combinator with an idea to build a lecture platform for professors. The product itself is very new.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform. Smaller teams like startups, boutique law, consulting firms, venture capitals and government institutions also have been adopting Typed as well.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Six years later, a new team claims to have cracked the code to a universal AI assistant — or at least to have gotten a little bit closer. But the team insists that their technology is far more sophisticated than what RPA vendors like Automation Anywhere and UiPath offer today. ” It’s lofty stuff. .”

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days, but a lot has been left on the table when it comes to frontline workers. We anticipate a seismic shift that will see huge resources, technology, and capital shifted toward frontline teams.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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. Private equity firm Great Hill Partners acquires stock media service Storyblocks.

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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. How to do remote work right, from the teams that know it best.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Considering that management is often evaluated not just on their own performance but on how well their teams do, it can be a risk to lose someone good. “Every manager can open a part-time project or internal job with their product,” he said. I’m not fully convinced that may always be the case.

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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. The best tactic is to start small and build up a system that is tested and optimal for your team, activity, and industry.

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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

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

JULY 25, 2022

Most expressed concerns about remote employees’ perceived lack of focus, negative impact on company culture, and productivity issues. Teams have realized that they can work just as efficiently using a distributed model, and a strict return-to-office plan often leads to losing top contributors even in a recession,” Mattson 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. “This growing problem was not only destroying productivity, but also sapping energy and detracting from the employee experience.”

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

SightCall has some 200 big-name enterprise customers on its books, including the likes of Kraft-Heinz, Allianz, GE Healthcare and Lincoln Motor Company, providing services on a B2B basis as well as for teams that are out in the field working for consumer customers, too. Yet it too is undergoing an evolution supercharged by technology.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

We’ve always been a subscription product. But especially since the pandemic, every business, every team I’ve talked to, needs professional-quality video to be easier so that they can use it to communicate. That product’s called our Vimeo OTT product. Vimeo has actually never made money from advertising.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. This research is the most precious knowledge we have about what animates great teams and their leaders, and is the foundation of the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. This research is the most precious knowledge we have about what animates great teams and their leaders, and is the foundation of the book.

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