There is surely no greater disruptor of the way we work than a pandemic. The COVID pandemic reshuffled the deck for most of us in terms of where we work, how we work, and when we work. While “the future of working” has always been something to come on, it seems that a real new paradigm is headed our way, especially with all the work being done by so many to rethink the way we hire in terms of fairness and equality. Here are ten companies that have had their eye on the new normal for longer than most of us, inventing processes and products that sharpen, simplify, and improve the way we work.
About the company: Workiva created Wdesk, a cloud-based productivity platform for enterprises to collect, link, report and analyze business data with control and accountability. Thousands of organizations, including over 65% of the Fortune 500, use Wdesk. The platform’s proprietary word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications are integrated and built upon a data management engine, offering synchronized data, controlled collaboration, granular permissions and a full audit trail.
About the company: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and other countries. The company offers service management solutions, including incident, problem, change, request, and cost management as well as service catalogs; and IT, HR, facilities, and field service management solutions.
About the company: Anaplan is driving a new age of connected planning. Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s cloud platform in every business function to make better-informed plans and decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. Anaplan also provides support, training, and planning transformation advisory services.