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. with global contracts in the pipeline slated for 2023.

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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

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.”. This is a big open data effort for us and we are also excited about polling because it is a very important form of data verification currently missing in Nigeria.

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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. “Many field services need software because our expectations as consumers are changing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Blink was founded in London — where it has found strong traction with metropolitan bus networks (where some 5,000 bus drivers are using the Blink app) and the NHS (where thousands of frontline workers in clinical and nonclinical roles are also on Blink). 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. Image Credits: Wefarm (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

A lot of the focus in recruitment these days has been on better technology to connect people to job opportunities at new organizations, but that also leaves a wide opening to focus on one of the other big funnels for finding work: internal transfers. I’m not fully convinced that may always be the case.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You may have visited some quick-service restaurants or other retailers in the past few months and noticed signs posted with shortened hours or not being open on a certain day. Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” the mass exodus of hourly workers over the past 18 months has now resulted in a competition for talent.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And the evolution of that to expand to more knowledge worker jobs is not especially new, either. That has opened the door to a wider range of people providing services to others, while at the same time possibly made it harder for them to be discoverable. Pennylane raises $18.4 million for its accounting service.

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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. That turned out to be a fortunate pivot as the pandemic struck. “The first two months we were in panic mode.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shiftsmart , a New York-based labor management resource, is the latest to see some love from investors, bringing in $95 million in Series B funding for its workforce management software that matches hourly workers with open shifts across a variety of industry verticals and roles. million for its tool for restaurant workers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Development work began roughly two months ago and Superpowered opened up to users just last month — a quick pace that Dearsley says was possible because three of the four team members are engineers, and the other, Yang, is the designer. The product itself is very new.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Oyster , a startup and platform that helps companies through the process of hiring, onboarding and then providing contractors and full-time employees in the area of “knowledge work” with HR services like payroll, benefits and salary management, has closed a Series A round of $20 million. “There are 1.5

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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.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a great advocacy charity in that field. Grameen has a team of community knowledge workers who go out in the fields of Uganda and collect agricultural information on their mobile devices. AdviceForGood.com).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Research shows that staff often resist using multiple services, often because they don’t want to open one more window on their computer or launch one more app on their mobile device.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

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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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

And I think you could have argued maybe 10 years ago, we could have opened up to ads. You could see that for a YouTube creator that opens a Vimeo channel and I just pay to get it. It is literally the idea of video being used to communicate with your workforce that’s distributed around the world, or share knowledge or train.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Into this scenario arrives Flown , an online platform that will match knowledge workers with inspiring properties already set up for productive and ergonomic remote work, as well as providing an array of online tools and resources to help them. Flown is essentially wrapping up into one package the knowledge workers’ wish-list.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. It should be easy to play a DVD. These things are far from the fault of Linux.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). 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. . Image Credits: Ezra Shaw (opens in a new window). million in the process. 2021: A SPAC odyssey.

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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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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

…And sometimes, the output of generative AI systems can be surprisingly good despite lacking any real knowledge. Now, the company is preparing to make the underlying code behind that model more accessible, promising to release five open source repos starting next week.” But can they do science?

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

truly is a drop-in replacement for some (20%) of knowledge workers and a game-changing assistant for most others. Its lucid explanations only scratch the surface of its knowledge, and you know you would need to spend years to understand the full depth of what it understands. Tech startups that efficiently use U2.5 A playground.

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 3, 2025

It feels impossible for some people parents, knowledge workers, Spotify fanatics to live without a smartphone. About nine out of 10 Americans own a smartphone , and Id guess many of them have passed a point of no return, when it comes to connected living. For others, its simply inconvenient.

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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. She worked in fashion and had come to the United States hoping to open a showroom for designers from back home. Illustrations by Emily Lopez for The Verge. His first move was to level up his home life.

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