TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Fire up a web browser and it’s hard to deny it’s the best of times for knowledge work. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students. Yet working across multiple browser tabs and windows can feel like the friction-filled, frustrating worst.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98 percent of knowledge workers use Slack, it does matter to Microsoft because the relative importance of email is hugely diminished,” explains Butterfield. “If

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Moody and Xu say the platform is designed to augment knowledge workers in their typical responsibilities, like reading through pages of information, extracting the pieces relevant to a particular question and transforming the information into an answer or a report. There’s no doubt knowledge-seeking tasks are time-consuming.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

Last year, a McKinsey Global Institute report noted that knowledge workers spend about 28 percent of their workday managing email. Including a company name is especially important if you already have a positive relationship with the reader.

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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. To develop AI agents, enterprises need to address critical concerns like trust, safety, security and compliance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

It works with tech companies and others to open up opportunities for people who have not had any higher education or any training, where fresh high school graduates can come in, learn the ropes of a job while getting paid and then continue on working their way up the ladder with that knowledge base in place.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Business Canvas, founded in 2020 by CEO Woojin Kim, Brian Shin, Seungmin Lee, Dongjoon Shin and Clint Yoo, is hoping to solve the challenge that every knowledge worker and writer faces: spending more time on research and file organization than the actual content output they need to create. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

I describe its system as ‘knowledge process automation’ (KPA). The company also stresses that it doesn’t aim to replace knowledge workers but help them leverage AI to turn the plethora of data that businesses now collect into actionable insights. argues that what it does is different. Image Credits: DeepSee.ai.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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. EDT, I have a line of tabs of stories I want to read culled from Twitter, various Slack channels, email newsletters and homepages.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. Learning is so vital today that we can think of ourselves as living in a learning economy ,” says Staats. “

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Think of automation as a tool to help your team focus on the uniquely human skills of creativity, relationship building, and critical thinking that only they can bring to their fundraising roles.

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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.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

General Catalyst’s Deep Nishar had this to say: “Adept … possesses a depth of expertise to deliver a commercial product that pushes the generative AI frontier beyond text and image modalities into the practical realm of knowledge worker actions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says Sophie Alcorn , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The bottoms up approach is certainly something we have seen with developer tools and with software for knowledge workers, but companies often take aim at sales through the sales manager, rather than trying directly to get salespeople to use a particular tool.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

So less text-heavy way of publishing and more of forecast and prediction around sectors that matter to knowledge workers and their organizations.”. But in a bid to support its transition from an insights company to a data company and buoyed by this new investment, Stears is planning a strategy modification for the Pro product. “So

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Cleary combines a communications platform, wikis, tools for helping businesses recognize their employees (at least virtually), an employee directory with org charts, a search tool that brings together a company’s knowledge base from across various third-party tools and a Q&A service for live events. ” Cleary raises $4.5M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2021

Bad meetings are the fast food of the knowledge worker; it’s so deliciously quick and easy to throw a 60-minute default meeting on everyone’s schedule, but the long-term costs are extremely unhealthy. Busy meeting organizers drive-thru schedule meetings because they think they don’t have time to plan.

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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 million in new funding in its pocket.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

In our view, Miro’s culture of customer centricity makes it well-positioned to address a myriad of use cases across hybrid work for more than a billion knowledge workers globally. “We believe Miro sits at a powerful intersection between asynchronous and synchronous work that captures and ignites creative processes everywhere.

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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

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. “There are 5.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

” Toptal claims that for Andela to pull off a “perfect clone of its business,” it poached key Toptal employees to exploit their knowledge, and that the ex-employees knowingly breached their confidentiality and non-solicitation obligations to Toptal.

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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

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

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We hear a lot about how that is playing out for “knowledge workers” — the generic term for people who spend their working days in front of computers or at desks — but the same is going for those on the front lines, working on assembly lines and maintaining production lines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ? industry and the tech industry (fishbowl). Reading what people recommend. Finding ???Looking

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98 percent of knowledge workers use Slack, it does matter to Microsoft because the relative importance of email is hugely diminished,” said Butterfield in a Vergecast interview last month. Microsoft Teams is Slack’s biggest competitor. “In

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The tasks that comprise human resources — in Hibob’s case, tracking attendance, time off, compensation, payroll, benefits and running surveys — are usually seen as some of the more dry, and often overly officious, aspects of working life.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Rather than a complex one-sized-fits-all approach that airs on the side of the knowledge worker, we have pushed the industry to see that it doesn’t work for hourly workers,” he added. “We We help you find who you are looking for — that person who is fine working in a cold warehouse or on that early morning shift.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In short, the knowledge you created is disconnected from the meeting,” Varma said. Varma said Loopin’s target customer are founders, senior executives and managers in cross-functional roles who spend a lot of time in meetings, plus knowledge workers in general. The startup is currently pre-revenue.

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