TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

That was clear, but the timing was the question,” Andela CEO Jeremy Johnson told TechCrunch in April. “We thought, ‘What if we accelerated [the African remote network] and just enabled applicants from anywhere?’ Because it was always the plan to become a global company.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

and everyone knew what questions had been asked and answered,” says Butterfield. Slack’s recent funding round meant all of its various partners could participate in a shared channel, the ultimate test of the technology it has built. Everyone from Slack who was working on the deal was in a channel with our bankers, lawyers, and consultants.

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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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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. Looking for something specific, such as an answer to a specific question. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. Until now, there was no good way to turn that tacit knowledge into data that a company could use. The only big question will be, how best to capture that data so that tacit knowledge can be extracted?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2021

We rush to answers instead of asking questions. Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Question : If readers took away one thing from reading your book, what do you hope it would be?

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s a big leap ahead for scenarios that previously relied on work orders, hastily drawn diagrams, instruction manuals and voice-based descriptions to progress the work in question. “We like to say that we break the barriers that exist between a field service organization and its customer,” Cottereau said.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

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Work Culture Cisco Question 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 2020

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

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Work Cisco Culture Question 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

Work 52

Work Cisco Culture Question 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2019

We rush to answers instead of asking questions. Recognizing that “I don’t know” is a fair place to start—if you quickly follow with a question. We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” Question : If readers took away one thing from reading your book, what do you hope it would be?

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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? 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

I've translated these into some questions that nonprofits might discuss as part their experimentation with organizational tagging and perhaps leading to a tagging policy that works for the group: Who in our organization must be involved? " Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

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Work Cisco Culture Question 40

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

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. 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.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

I feel like I ask a lot of people “future of work” questions, and I’ve never gotten “the future of work is your HR team has a video switcher” before. Let me ask you a really reductive question: you keep saying content, but then you keep talking about who your customers are. Yeah, it’s a great question. And yeah, that’s good.

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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. Employees can use the tool to ask questions about markets, internal processes, and recommendations.

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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. percent on " Humanity's Last Exam ," a comprehensive evaluation covering over 3,000 questions across more than 100 subjects. Read full article Comments

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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. They would pretend to make progress on a research question with an impressive-looking plot, but the plot would be fake. Nova is a proper drop-in replacement for nearly all knowledge workers.

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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. On the day in question, he took out a new toolkit he had ordered for them to use around the condo, and she assumed it was her present. Illustrations by Emily Lopez for The Verge. They had to move on.

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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. Its about knowing enough to question it. AI is powerful, but its not perfect.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

We rush to answers instead of asking questions. Recognizing that I dont know is a fair place to startif you quickly follow with a question. We cant just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers. Question : If readers took away one thing from reading your book, what do you hope it would be?

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Learning Knowledge Worker Problem Exercise 59

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots necessary for every knowledge worker. Until now, there was no good way to turn that tacit knowledge into data that a company could use. The only big question will be, how best to capture that data so that tacit knowledge can be extracted?

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