For many of us, 2020 has been a year that turned our work lives completely upside down.
This led to an explosion in an already thriving workplace tech market.
Just in the past year, Antler has invested in around 30 companies that are focused on workspace innovation.
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Its extremely exciting to be active in this space right now as an investor.
The truth is, it really depends on what bang out of work mode youre in.
But, with the switch to remote working, the buzz of office life isnt an option anymore.
Teemycois one of Doelemans favorite solutions for this.
Your team appears as icons that can move from room to room based on their workstyle mood.
Normally, when youre working in the same space, its easier to feel connected with your colleagues.
Whether its brainstorming, planning a quarterly strategy, mapping out user flows, or putting visual elements together.
ButMiro is coming in and filling that need for distributed teams.
Productivity isnt just about finding ways to get work done.
Burn out and loneliness have been two very real problems companies are trying to grapple with right now.
When theres less time for jokes and social connectivity the concept of team culture is undermined significantly.
And, for HR teams, this also means higher retention levels.
Its actually so important for productivity.
Are we actually promoting the equality and inclusion wed like to see in society?
What we often dont realize is that even the language we use can send subliminal messages.
Doelemans team at Antler is using Textio to help them attract a diverse pool of talent.
Were bringing together founders from all different kinds of backgrounds to form new businesses together.
Textios software is a very easy way to help companies identify and eliminate bias from their communications.
It uses advanced language insights to analyze text and provide suggestions to attract a wider audience.
Do you regularly have trouble sleeping and wake up the next morning feeling moody and unproductive?…
It could be down to how you eat.
Clear goes a step further.
As you move towards a distributed team you lose a pulse on peoples physical and mental health.
Were sitting in our chairs and looking at our screens all day.
This makes it even more important to maintain healthy habits, Doeleman explained.
And, for companies, this can make a huge difference.
When your employees are energetic and on the ball, theyre going to be more motivated and productive.
Cognicept: Improving human-robot relations
Last but certainly not least, its time to consider our non-human team members.
Thats why I think its interesting to bring this solution into the mix, Doeleman explained.
Cognicepthelps teams to easily detect errors and significantly increase uptime through improved remote robot intervention and supervision.
It does this by providing tele-operated human in the loop support.
Robotics has been a trend on the rise for a while now.
But I think Cognicept is interesting because its acting on the interface between robots and humans.
Its important to realize that were still in the very early stages of this new workplace evolution.
But we still havent solved a lot of the new problems it entails yet.
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