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Employee engagement platform Culture Amp raises $100M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5 The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5

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Is the 9-to-5 workday dead? What employees seek in return-to-office plans

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Over 25% plan to leave their jobs, especially those who rate their company cultures as “C” or lower. Consider a survey comparing productivity of in-person vs. remote workers during the first six months of stay-at-home orders, March through August 2020, to the same six-month period in 2019. Other research confirms this information.

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How Understanding Multigenerational Workforces Can Make You a Better Leader

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Schedule a Consultation with AccessPoint. Generation Z (2001-2020) = 5%. Schedule a Consultation with AccessPoint. Here are four challenges multigenerational workforces must consider: Company culture. Cultural expectations. To learn more, schedule a consultation with AccessPoint today. Traditionalists.

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Uganda’s Rocket Health raises $5M in round led by Creadev to scale telemedicine across Africa

TechCrunch

The world over, the popularity of telemedicine spiked during the Covid pandemic, growing 78 times in April 2020, a few months after the disease struck, according to a McKinsey study. Launched in 2012, Rocket Health’s offers online medical consultation, collection of samples and the delivery of medicines. for drug delivery.

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Mural raises $50M Series C after tripling its ARR in the last year

TechCrunch

Mural also raised a $23 million Series A at the start of 2020. That second figure is up from a “couple” seven-figure deals at the start of 2020, a figure that the company disclosed at the time of its Series A. Per Suarez-Battan, Mural has continued the torrid pace of growth that made it a breakout company in 2020.

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This company just raised millions to make tech layoffs more humane

TechCrunch

The company, launched by CEO Nolan Church in August 2020, started as a play to connect startups to part-time executive help. He’s talking from experience: The founder was the chief people officer at Carta when the company laid off 13% of the company in April 2020. 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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Cultivated meat is closer to our plate now that Good Meat also gets FDA blessing

TechCrunch

Food and Drug Administration’s pre-market consultation for its production method, and the agency concluded this week that it had “ no questions.” “We and elsewhere, are working on cultivated, or cell-cultured, meat products, but have to receive approval from both the FDA and U.S. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

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