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Better Workplaces Challenge Cup - a worldwide pitch competition for the most promising start-ups that are creating better workplaces through innovations that solve today’s most pressing workplace challenges.
Workplace Tech Accelerator – a program that will support the development of startups that are mission-driven and interested in creating better workplaces.
Workplace Tech Community
an online community that will explore disruptive technologies (AI, blockchain, IoT, etc.), and how they can tackle workplace issues.
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The Startup Zone curates the best and brightest workplace tech startups and enables real-time engagement with HR professionals.
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Meet the startups bringing innovative solutions to workers and workplaces to address workplace challenges ranging from workforce planning and talent acquisition, to employee engagement and development, and everything in between. Click the startup’s logo to navigate to their website to learn more and/or sign up.
7Geese addresses the gap of traditional performance management systems by providing organizations with a Continuous Performance Ecosystem that can flex to support your unique processes. 7Geese is a comprehensive performance management application that allows organizations to:
Now more than ever, training needs to be fast, mobile, and effective. Unfortunately, video courses can be time consuming, expensive, and difficult to adapt quickly, not to mention their lack of accessibility for employees without internet, a laptop, or an LMS. Arist helps organizations instantly create and launch text message-based courses, which have completion, satisfaction, and accessibility rates of over 90%. Arist courses seamlessly deliver learning entirely via text and are used for everything from compliance training to culture building. Inspired by Stanford research, text message-based courses are quick to build and very cost-efficient. Most importantly, they make digital learning and training as easy and accessible as texting.
Cassiopeia empowers managers that lead fully or partially remote teams to maximize workplace experience. Our solution delivers actionable insights to boost team collaboration, belonging, and mental health by analyzing communications patterns (not content) within and among teams. Weekly email reports are delivered to managers which include actionable insights about less connected employees, how certain subgroups, such as parents and new employees are engaging, work overload, and other indications to help them overcome specific challenges team members are facing.
Improve retention, inclusion, and productivity while lowering health care costs. Brightside provides a complete solution for employee financial health through its platform. Every employee is assisted by a dedicated Financial Assistant who understands, solves and inspires beyond the capabilities of a standalone app. Financial providers provide tips and recommendations according to their needs. Combined with its financial health partner platform, Brightside makes it easy for employees to make the right money moves. Amid the pandemic, Brightside is easing the burden for employers by providing alternatives for employees that have substantially better ROIs than additional compensation: furlough and layoff assistance, expense management, Cares ACT guidance, and resource support.
ChartHop is HR’s best resource for managing and planning for change.
ChartHop plays well with 20 plus platforms, including ADP, BambooHR, Carta, Greenhouse, Lever, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday and more.
COVID-19 has presented challenges on both candidate and hiring market sides that are causing turmoil.
GoGig is an anonymous professional networking platform that helps currently employed, passive candidates advance their careers confidentially through career desire and cultural ‘fit’ metrics using AI. Hiring professionals can tap into a new group of passive candidates that they otherwise didn’t know existed through powerful algorithmic search. No job postings, no applying, no keyword crawlers, no resume gimmicks.
For Hiring Companies: GoGig’s platform possesses a vast user base to help you recruit quality talent that doesn’t exist on traditional job board sites. GoGig has a powerful algorithmic career desire matching feature that helps you navigate the waters of passive and active talent more efficiently than even the largest professional networking platforms.
Gravatate provides virtual workspaces that solve the frustrations of inter-company communications that groups and boards encounter when they try and work together. We provide intuitive, private and affordable virtual workspaces to professionals and teams that are simple and secure. You can use the Gravatate platform to streamline communications, share files and information, and locate all the conversations and resources your team needs to maintain continuity, efficiently and effectively.
HONO enhances employees’ Experience and Engagement whilst simplifying Life-Cycle Automation. It identifies Moments of Truth and tracks the impact on each employee thereby empowering HR, on a real time basis, to build, act upon and deliver experiences through Actionable Insights. HONO’s AI enabled platform aligns employees and leaders towards Business Outcomes and helps transform Organization Culture.
Disengaged and underperforming employees kill companies. Figuring out why is even tougher with a remote workforce under COVID-19. Humaxa is ONLY AI assistant that has anonymous conversations with workers and offers solutions. “Max” is a fun and useful AI assistant designed specifically for the remote workforce. “Max” turns eight weeks of engagement survey work into eight seconds. No more waiting for data or reports. Data is gathered continuously on the back end, and the AI predicts what will work to motivate each individual person to stay and perform their best. Alerts are sent out if the data is headed in the wrong direction. Humaxa integrates directly with Slack and takes just seven clicks to install.
In times of crisis, nothing is more important than to have you and your family’s critical information ready, organized and accessible. LifeSite is an ultra-secure, digital vault for individuals, families, caregivers and advisors to organize, manage and share information and documents. The solution guides users with easy prompts for entering and organizing information across all aspects of life including personal, people, online accounts, medical, finance and legacy information. Family members or loved ones can access and share key personal information anywhere, anytime the need arises.
PILOT is Software-Based Employee Coaching. Our product helps to empower each employee to truly own their career and actively shape their experience at work. PILOT takes the best of traditional coaching and makes it better: affordable, data-driven, on-demand, mobile-enabled, and cohort-based. PILOT's structured coaching program works across industries and a diverse range of employee profiles and roles.
Founded by former HR Executives and Professional Coaches, we know how hard it is for HR/Business Leaders to respond to increased demand for employee development. Our turn-key solution can be deployed in just 2 weeks.
PsychologyCompass is a fully automated coach that helps knowledge-workers reach their peak mental performance.
Everything offered is backed by science and is highly practical. And most importantly we're able to measure progress at the individual and team levels.
Stressed employees lead to an unhealthy work environment that negatively affects productivity. But the good news is that work-related stress can now be easily managed by one simple change in your company: A shift towards MINDFULNESS. Synctuition is the ultimate program for deep relaxation. Using the app is simple—just put on your headphones, close your eyes, and relax. Synctuition uses the power of 3D sound to provide an immersive relaxation experience. Synctuition uses binaural beats in the highly powerful gamma range for maximum effect. Synctuition stimulates the brain to create millions of new synapses for increased creativity and focus. Just 25 minutes of Synctuition has the same effect on brainwaves as four hours of regular meditation.
74% of organizations report that reskilling their workforce is very important for success but only 10% say they are prepared to support this.
SkyHive is a platform that unlocks human and workforce capability.
SkyHive invented and commercialized an emerging methodology, quantum labor analysis, to analyze workforces at their most granular level - skills. With world-leading technology, SkyHive captures real-time labor market information and applies those insights to assess the current capabilities of a workforce, identify future and emerging skills, and facilitate workforce reskilling. As a result, SkyHive drastically reduces time-to-hire by 90%, lowers cost-to-hire by 30%, and creates 70% higher efficiency in learning and development.
Founded with the mission of reducing global unemployment, SkyHive is active across four continents and is industry-agnostic.
Whispli is the best way to replace an open-door policy, when there is no physical door left anymore. Our workforce is adjusting to a completely new way of working. Whether they are working on the front line, or working remotely, often for the first time in their lives, they have plenty of questions regarding the new normal, but nowhere to ask them without fear of being judged and/or retaliation.
Whispli provides the platform to engage with your employees, in the simplest and most effective way possible, while preserving anonymity. Your company will have its own private ‘Open Line’, where employees from around the world can ask all their questions directly via Whispli’s mobile app (available for free on iOS and Android).
Since Whispli is anonymous by default, your employees will not be afraid or ashamed to discuss the sensitive issues they are currently facing, which affect their well-being on a daily basis.
TaskHuman offers 1-on-1 live video calls with top wellness pros covering yoga, clean eating, stress management and nearly a thousand more topics. This platform enables employees to build their dream-team of wellness pros right from their mobile device. Here’s how TaskHuman can support your employees’ wellness journey: