Utmost aims to give enterprises a holistic view of the sprawling extended workforce
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Startup Utmost, which just raised a $21 million funding round, aims to give Workday customers better oversight of their fast-growing extended workforce
Annrai O Toole (Utmost)
As organizations prepare for the hybrid work patterns of the Vaccine Economy, they also find themselves grappling with the continuing growth in contingent work. As many as half of a typical enterprise s workforce today are not on the payroll they re freelancers, contractors, agency temps and gig workers. Tracking and managing this extended workforce is the mission of Utmost, which last week revealed a $21 million round of venture finance, bringing its total funding to $33 million. The disruption of the past year has accelerated the need for its solution, says CEO Annrai O Toole, who observes:
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This week - are retailers finally getting an omni-handle on consumers? Microsoft gets Nuance(d), while SaaS gives way to XaaS. Return-to-work raises trust issues, I get salty about BizDevOps, and customers don t want your journey-mapping. Plus: your weekly whiffs.
Lead story - Anyone who thinks they know exactly how consumers will behave in the next six months should
have to turn in their retail guru card not be taken seriously.
We know this much: retailers better have the flex to adapt: to whatever channel (fickle) consumers want that week/day/hour/minute.
Start with Stuart s Bedding in for the omni long haul - how Bed, Bath & Beyond furnished a retail future for itself despite COVID. 18 months ago, Bed Bath & Beyond was on omni-hassle. Not anymore. Take their BOPIS surge, a six-fold increase since launching in April 2020 (4 million buy online/pick-up in stores customers served). Stuart quotes the CEO:
Oracle introduces personalized Journeys to help employees navigate HR processes
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Oracle Journeys aims to improve the employee experience of navigating complex HR processes. Yvette Cameron tells me what this means for CHROs
(via Oracle)
As we emerge into the Vaccine Economy, one of the new priorities for organizations is an improved employee experience when using enterprise applications. This is particularly important when workers can no longer turn to their neighbor in the office to ask for help when they get stuck. It s also part of the new awareness of the importance of staff wellbeing and job satisfaction, which is top of mind for CHROs as they look to manage the transition to new hybrid working arrangements. For those organizations using Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, today s launch of Oracle Journeys provides a more joined-up experience for a variety of HR processes.
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