by dankeelan | Jan 18, 2022 | Burnout, Remote Work, Technology
Clockwise, a time management and smart calendar tool, has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. This latest round brings the company’s...
by dankeelan | Dec 21, 2021 | Future of Work, Remote Work, Technology
As employees return to the office, IT teams can apply the lessons they learned supporting remote workers to transform their networks. Technologies such as SD-WAN and secure-access service edge (SASE) could continue to be useful. Network-as-a-service, (NaaS), is still...
by dankeelan | Dec 14, 2021 | Gig Workers, Technology, U.S. Economy
Sixteen percent of Americans have earned money doing household chores and running errands for other people via online apps and websites, according to the Pew Research Center. If people are younger, non-white and poorer, they are more likely to have done online...
by dankeelan | Dec 14, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Technology
Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber driver in the UK, spent a year of his life working for the ride-hailing company before he was abruptly fired by an algorithm. “It wasn’t good at all,” Manjang said in an interview with Worker Info Exchange. “It felt like most of the time...
by dankeelan | Dec 14, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Technology
That virtual meeting that could have been an email? It should have been a Slack Huddle or a clip. Slack, an already integral part of the modern workforce, is redefining the norm of remote and hybrid work yet again with its new collaboration tools – huddles and...
by dankeelan | Nov 30, 2021 | Gig Workers, India, Technology
Global tech giant Microsoft is currently undertaking a rather interesting experiment. They are inserting small word document jobs into people’s Facebook feeds, letting them get smaller portions of work done while taking time off from their major tasks. They are...
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