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企业员工
帮助企业员工轻松换岗升职,Degreed获4200万美元C轮融资
编译:猎云网 福尔摩望
当一名员工希望在自己的职业生涯中取得进步时,所处公司可能会有严格的等级路径,需要其付出许多时间和精力才能取得心目中的目标。于是,许多人选择了跳槽;但是,也有员工想要在不离开的情况下有所尝试。
与其从代理升职到代理主管,或者遵循一些现有的晋升路径,不如考虑公司其他部门的机会。想要晋升或更换部门,要么可以参考每个部门可直接比较的技能组,要么可能需要一些技能补充,那么这就是Degreed所做的事情。
作为一家在线服务公司,Degreed会识别这些技能差距,并了解如何学习和跟踪。Degreed不希望将员工锁定在一个单一的轨道上,而是希望雇主给予工具,帮助员工更好地提高他们的技能。相对的,这对雇主来说也更有价值。
近日,Degreed宣布,它已经获得了4200万美元的融资,由Owl Ventures和Jump Capital共同领投,Founders Circle Capital和现有投资者参投。该服务在企业内部启动,识别出提供诸如项目管理等技能工作机会的内容,然后向员工展示如何开始学习这些技能。在此之后,它会确定出获得这些技能的最佳途径,并帮助员工了解他们的进展。
网站:https://degreed.com/
刚被任命为公司首席执行官的Chris McCarthy说道:“真正的挑战是,无论内容来源多么大或者多么复杂,无论是更高等的教育还是正规培训,它都会变得越来越小。如果你知道努力的方向,那么你就可以构建这些技能。随着内容的普及,无论对企业还是个人,所有这些平台都是学习的跳板而已。他们在完成这一方面上做得很好。在此之前,没有任何东西可以穿过这些学习障碍。”
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McCarthy说,虽然部分人可能担心,一旦雇主帮助员工学习新技能,员工们可能就会利用这一新技能去别处求职。但是,在与客户打交道的过程中,并没有发现此类的问题。这是因为,最终雇主们将在帮助员工成长和学习的过程中,发现员工的价值,并且提供与之相符的奖励和回馈。进而,员工也觉得从中有所收获,自然愿意留在公司。
当然,Degreed面临的一大挑战不仅在于需要识别出能衡量员工学习进度的“晴雨表”,还要评估其质量。例如,一个简单的线性代数的MIT视频课程,可能最终实现的结果会优于许多知名平台的课程。那么,如何明确这个“优于”的指标,就是个问题。
虽然,最初Degreed可以作为教育内容的中心点或聚集点,但所有这些信息都帮助它创建了一个强大的数据集,以进一步帮助员工找出他们需要学习的技能,甚至是他们没有意识到的需要学习的技能。当一名员工第一次使用这一服务时,他希望Degreed能够提供公司内部的信息以及员工所感兴趣的内容,以便立即了解他们想要学习的内容。
最终,这会形成一个反馈循环。像Degreed这样的工具已经习惯了员工想要学习的东西,并开始发现公司内部需要填补的技能空白。如果所有事情都按照你所预期的方式进行,那么公司层级结构的整体概念可能就不再存在了。而员工希望挖掘出他们想要的技能,并成为真正能够绘制出真实发展路径的人。
McCarthy表示:“如果没有参与,只是有数据是不够的。你可以拥有所有最佳模型和内容,但是如果人们没有使用产品,则无法精简出有用的数据。他们通过这些数据来做决定,可能看到的只是冰山一角。但是现在公司可以坐下来说,'这是水下的学习冰川’,它将所有事情整合在一起,放在一个地方,让人们可以看到,触摸到,并看到真正的路径。”
对员工培训领域感兴趣的企业肯定有很多,尤其是那些越来越渴望机器学习的大公司,就比如两年前融资4000万美元的Grovo。然而,虽然每个平台都想杀出重围,但是,想要让企业用户们心甘情愿地买单,承认该平台的数据最好(或者最多)却并不简单。当然,这也是McCarthy希望Degreed能给100万注册用户提供的东西。
原文:
Degreed gets $42M to help build a tool to help employees learn the right skills
When an employee is looking to advance in their career, where they work might have a kind of strict hierarchical path for the role they're in and what titles come next — but there's a good chance that employee might want to try something new without leaving their company.
Instead of going from just an agent to a manager of agents, or following some existing promotion line, a company that's large enough probably has plenty of other opportunities within it across many different divisions — each with either a directly-comparable skillset, or one that might need some slight additions. That's where Degreed, an online service for identifying those skill gaps and how to pick them up, as well as track them, comes. Instead of locking employees into a single trajectory, Degreed hopes to give employers tools to help employees improve their skills even more, and in the end become much more valuable to the employer. Degreed today said it has raised $42 million in a venture financing round co-led by Owl Ventures and Jump Capital, with Founders Circle Capital and existing investors participating.
The service launches inside an organization, identifies the content that offers an opportunity to work on skills like project management (often made by the company itself), and then shows employees how to start working on those skills. And those skill gaps between roles might actually be much smaller than those employees think, and it's just a matter of identifying what they need to work on in order to grow within their company. After that, it identifies the best ways to get those skills, which can come in the form of content or potentially other avenues, and helps employees figure out how far along their progression path they are.
"The real challenge is that no matter how big or sophisticated any one content source is, whether it's higher education and formal training, that’s increasingly a smaller slice of the pie," Chris McCarthy, who was named CEO of the company today, said. "If you know where to look, you can build any skill. As content proliferates — for enterprises and for individuals — all these platforms are islands of learning. They do a good job of getting through that experience. Nothing prior to that is weaving through those islands of learning."
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McCarthy said even though the employers are helping their employees learn new skills, which might even help them get jobs elsewhere, they aren't having an issues signing up potential clients. That's because in the end, employers are going to see more value in helping those employees grow and learn new skills, and that might provide its own feedback loop where employees feel like they are getting the most from their company and want to stick around.
Of course, one of the big challenges for Degreed is not only identifying content that can serve as a barometer for learning a new skill, but also gauging its quality. For example, an online MIT course on Linear Algebra — just a series of videos and problem sets — could potentially end up superior to the other online course next to it on some well-known online course service.
While Degreed may have initially served as a kind of hub or aggregation point for educational content initially — or at least, that's what people thought it was, McCarthy said — all that information coming in has helped it create a robust data set that it can use going forward to further help employees figure out what skills they need to learn, or even skills they didn't realize they want to learn. When an employee comes in the door for the first time, the hope is that Degreed will have enough information for what's inside the company and what the employee is interested in to gauge right away what they might want to learn.
That, in the end, provides a neat feedback loop. A tool like Degreed gets used to what employees want to learn, and starts to spot skills gaps inside a company that need to be filled. If all that plays out the way you might expect, then the whole notion of a hierarchy in a company might be a thing that might not exist for much longer — and employees, who are hopefully digging up the skills they want and would be good at, are the ones that chart out the real progression path inside a company as it tries to achieve its goals.
"Without engagement, just having data is insufficient," McCarthy said. "The data you need only comes from engagement on a platform. You can have all the best models and content, but if people aren’t using the product, you can’t reduce the data that’s helpful. They’re making these decisions looking at the data, and they might see the tip of the iceberg on the surface of the water. But now companies can sit back and say, 'here’s this glacier of learning under the water.' It’s a combination of putting a place in the individual where a person can touch it and see it and see a real pathway."
There is definitely a lot of interest in the employee learning space, especially as it makes sense for larger companies who are increasingly aching for niche talent like machine learning are looking to find the best people — who might even be at their own company. Grovo, for example, raised $40 million about two years ago. But as is the case with any platform looking to win, it's going to be a race to get the best (and most) data to convince employers that they can quickly and efficiently identify the the best people to learn a skill, something McCarthy hopes Degreed has with a million licensed users.
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企业员工
为企业员工量身定制健康管理方案,「Humanoo」获640万美元融资
为企业员工与受保人提供数字健康伴侣平台的Humanoo App 近期获得了640万美元(500万欧元)的融资。本轮融资由Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures领投,Creathor Ventures,Rheingau Founders,Rocket Internet以及其他投资者跟投。
这家位于德国柏林的企业是一家面向企业员工的数字健康管理平台。“平均来说,一名德国员工每年会请21天的病假。如果算上员工生病未请假但并不能高效工作的情况,那么这将导致一家企业平均全年在每个员工身上损失4,600欧元。但这些病假大部分都是比较容易避免的。”“Humanoo创始人兼首席执行官Philip Pogoretschnik 称。
Humanoo平台想做的就是成为企业员工的健康数字伴侣,帮助企业员工保持身体与精神上的健康。除了企业员工健康管理外,Humanoo 还将多元健康内容进行整合,并为参与活动与互动的用户提供奖励。
Humanoo结合了健康、运动与营养等多方面的信息。它可以让用户制定个人健康管理目标,并且可以搜索相关的栏目与训练教程。根据用户的营养偏好以及可用于烹饪时间的长短,它还为用户提供了超过500个符合用户个人需求的食谱。
客户企业可以利用Humanoo平台为其员工设定特定的健康挑战目标。Humanoo平台会根据用户完成情况进行评估,生成综合报告,帮助公司更好的了解员工的健康情况,并发放员工福利。根据其完成情况的绩效分数,雇主可以为参与的员工发放奖金,或者向健康保险公司、承保人提供减免优惠。
Creathor Ventures的合伙人克里斯蒂安·韦斯(Christian Weiss)认为:“许多公司现在已经意识到员工健康的重要性,并愿意为员工的健康管理付费。但是此前却很少有公司能够开发出适用于各领域公司的健康管理平台,也很难综合考虑各项因素后给出有效的健康解决方案。而Humanoo利用其数字健康平台让为每个用户量身定制健康管理方案成为了可能。”
据了解,本轮融资后,Humanoo计划扩建其平台,并推进与健康保险公司的合作,拓展市场。
来源:海外创投
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企业员工
Facebook欲推出企业社交产品,抢夺LinkedIn市场份额
[摘要]Facebook英国正在研发企业协作工具,已开始邀请外部企业进行测试。
腾讯科技讯Facebook一直是一个私人社交网络,因此Facebook和Twitter等网站在许多公司的局域网中遭到封杀,原因是企业规定上班时间不得从事私人网上活动。
不过根据英国《金融时报》引述消息人士称,Facebook正在开发一个“工作版Facebook”,未来企业员工将可以堂而皇之在办公电脑上访问Facebook。
据报道,这是一个试验性项目,由Facebook在英国伦敦的研发机构开发,目前有许多Facebook的内部员工在进行试用,此外还包括少数外部受邀请的企业。
“工作版Facebook”,在网页界面、功能上今天的Facebook比较类似,但是完全服务于企业内部的沟通和协作。这一产品包括员工或者部门的资料页面,员工以及部门的最新动态,以及站内的聊天沟通,此外员工用户也将可以利用这一平台分享办公文档。
今天的Facebook已经拥有13亿个人用户,需要指出的是,工作版Facebook将和私人版Facebook完全隔离,相互之间不会进行数据和内容的分享。
换言之,如果张三已经是Facebook老用户,上传了大量的隐私照片和信息内容,他无需担心这些内容会出现在工作版Facebook的帐号和网页中。
由于产品尚未成熟,Facebook尚未正式推出产品,也没有进行广告营销。
工作版Facebook,将让这家社交网络巨头,将在私人社交市场的巨大品牌影响力,携带到企业协作平台市场,这一产品也将给整个企业软件和服务市场,带来一场地震。
众所周知的是,IBM、微软、谷歌等均运营着面向企业员工的内部沟通和协作工具服务,其中2012年,微软斥资12亿美元收购了企业内部网络协作平台Yammer,后来将这一平台整合到了微软的企业软件产品线中。谷歌包括云存储、在线文档编辑的诸多工具,也提供了企业员工通信和文档交换功能。这些厂商将受到巨大冲击。
企业有大有小,而市场上也已经有针对不同行业、风格的企业用户的成百上千种企业协同工具。最早的电子文档、电子邮件,以及现在的云存储和文件分发、项目管理软件、职场社交工具、聊天工具可谓数不胜数。当中不乏优秀者,比如国外的 LinkedIn、Slack、Dropbox,国内的 Teambition 等。Facebook 进入严肃的职场社交、企业协同领域,表面上看和这个社交工具的本体业务没什么关系,实际上却依然服务于自己存在的终极目标:连接世界 (Connect the world)。
另外在社交网络和企业的交集上,LinkedIn处于明显优势,号称白领商务社交网站,LinkedIn也成为许多职场人士寻找职业机会、进行自我营销的舞台,英国金融时报网站表示,工作版Facebook,也将对LinkedIn构成威胁。
目前,Facebook尚未对金融时报的报道予以置评。
对于Facebook而言,其已经成为全世界私人社交领域毋庸置疑的霸主,用户规模是排名第二的Twitter的四倍。在上市之后,Facebook成功实施了产品和广告营收的移动化,此外通过产品功能的推陈出新,保持了用户粘性和活跃交互。
不过众所周知的是,Facebook脱胎于网页社交,而在移动互联网时代,Instagram、Snapchat、WhatsApp等移动社交工具成为年轻人的“宠儿”。多家公司的报告也指出,在年轻人看来,Facebook上的中老年人太多,产品缺失了“酷”要素,吸引力大不如过去。Facebook的年轻用户,正在向Twitter和其他移动社交工具“大逃亡”。
显然,在网页社交模式逐渐陈旧,移动社交和图片社交成为时代主流的背景下,Facebook需要重新思考社交网络的新突破口。
如果能够进军“企业内部沟通协作”这一全新的领域,将会给Facebook带来一个全新的舞台和新的广告营收、产品创新的空间。
不过,企业市场和个人消费市场,差异巨大。企业用户一般习惯于和微软、IBM等大型软件公司保持合作。Facebook是否能够借助品牌影响力,劝说企业和员工使用工作版的Facebook,仍是一个未知数。(晨曦)
来源:腾讯科技
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