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

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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The holiday shopping season kicked off last week with some lackluster results , but employers are still in dire need of workers. The tight labor market, driven in part by “ The Great Resignation ,” is highlighting the need for more tech-enabled tools for connecting employers with available workers.

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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. Glean also uses the user’s activity, such as clicks on search results, to improve the search relevance.”

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Build more efficient workflows for knowledge workers Across industries, companies are driving early generative AI use cases by automating and simplifying time-intensive processes for knowledge workers. Then, the LLM would generate a final, summarized answer for the customer.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2021

We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Staats Staats recently shared his answers to these two questions: Question : Organizations and leaders often obsess over results, but you argue that process is far more important. Staats : Understanding the process is vital for learning.

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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 paradigm has drastically shifted in recent years, however.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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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. As a result, budgets are lost, and employees are stretched thin, which is why companies outsource these tasks in the first place.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2019

We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Staats Staats recently shared his answers to these two questions: Question : Organizations and leaders often obsess over results, but you argue that process is far more important. Staats : Understanding the process is vital for learning.

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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. “The video solution has to work.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

What at first may seem provocative and counter-intuitive, you'll learn why the nine lies "cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be," explain the authors. Question : What’s the harm in pushing people to improve their weaknesses?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

What at first may seem provocative and counter-intuitive, you'll learn why the nine lies "cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be," explain the authors. Question : What’s the harm in pushing people to improve their weaknesses?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 2020

What at first may seem provocative and counter-intuitive, you'll learn why the nine lies "cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be," explain the authors. Question : What’s the harm in pushing people to improve their weaknesses?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

What at first may seem provocative and counter-intuitive, you'll learn why the nine lies "cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be," explain the authors. Question : What’s the harm in pushing people to improve their weaknesses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Trying to do both would result in " tag goo " (a term I literally just invented). (BK: " Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. BK: Would it? ). Link Fishing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

What at first may seem provocative and counter-intuitive, you'll learn why the nine lies "cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be," explain the authors. Question : What’s the harm in pushing people to improve their weaknesses?

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

It’s an approach that can quickly become unwieldy for staff, and it can result in errors that result in a sub-par experience that’s frustrating for members. Wasted Time The average knowledge worker reports spending about 60% of their time on “work about work.”

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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. A sign of the times: This week, enterprise orchestration SaaS platform Gtmhub announced that it raised a $30 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I think we will see more diverse talent flow through Miami as a result of remote work becoming the norm. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

But today, a startup that is exploring a different route for those interested in technology and knowledge worker positions — specifically by way of apprenticeships to bring in and train younger people on the job — is announcing a significant round of growth funding to see if it can provide a credible, scalable alternative to that model.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 7, 2025

Other reportedly planned agents include a "high-income knowledge worker" assistant at $2,000 monthly and a software developer agent at $10,000 monthly. For example, OpenAI's o1 series models reportedly performed well in science, coding, and math tests, with results similar to human PhD students on challenging tasks.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved," the researchers wrote in the paper. "A The data shows a shift in cognitive effort as knowledge workers increasingly move from task execution to oversight when using GenAI," the researchers wrote.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

We conducted BEx 2025 in November 2024, surveying 1,000 members of the general population adults and 500 knowledge workers. Knowledge workers overwhelmingly support transparent AI development, with 81% emphasizing security, 78% ethical oversight, and 77% privacy. Communication builds trust.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

If knowledge workers are merely promptly AI and instructing the AI agents to work for them, are humans still working? When work became hard to see One of the great historical transitions in the knowledge economy is that as work became more “intellectual,” it also became less visible. Not in total output.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

Also, this type of restructuring may have little benefit for shift workers with long hours. Even among knowledge workers, there’s a risk that cutting a full day would simply result in employees scrambling to cram their work into a shorter week.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

We cant just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers. Staats Staats shares these additional insights: Question : Organizations and leaders often obsess over results, but you argue that process is far more important. Staats : Understanding the process is vital for learning. That just isnt the case though.

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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.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

According to Drucker, effective governance results from this teamwork, where roles and expectations are clear and aligned with the organization’s objectives. Embrace knowledge as power Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker” to highlight the role of continuous learning and data-informed decision-making in organizational success.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The researchers build specialized ML research skills on top of it, training U3 to predict the results of every ML paper and ML experiment ever recorded. truly is a drop-in replacement for some (20%) of knowledge workers and a game-changing assistant for most others. As a result, mold spores are all around us, all of the time.

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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. You just want to see results,” Fong said. Illustrations by Emily Lopez for The Verge. Fear sometimes manifested as altruism: checking on neighbors, organizing mutual aid. Fong and Rob got on a call.

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