Gigwalk Blog, Gigwalk on Bloomberg Businessweek. Gigwalk Does Temp-Worker Hiring Without Job Interviews. The rate at which you reply to e-mails may reveal your overall competence.
At least according to Gigwalk, a company that helps businesses hire on-the-spot temporary workers. “If you reply within an hour, your success rate for completing a job ends up being about 97 percent,” says Gigwalk Chief Executive Officer Bob Bahramipour. “But if it takes longer than five hours, that number drops to 47 percent.” Gigwalk, launched in 2011 by three former Yahoo! (YHOO) colleagues, has developed several mathematical models that shed light on employee behavior and follow-through.
Gigwalk uses what it calls its “Moneyball engine”—a reference to the book and film about a baseball team built by scrutinizing data to find undervalued talent—to find good workers without ever engaging in personal interactions. “In this way, Moneyball actually helps workers be more successful,” says Bahramipour in a telephone interview. Job candidates start out doing simple gigs in which the cost of failure is low. Gigwalk 2013: A Year in Review : Gigwalk Blog. Posted by Gigwalk on December 19, 2013 Leave a Comment What a year it’s been.
We’ve launched Gigwalk for Android, so more people can find gigs. Enhanced our profiles to match skilled Gigwalkers with higher paying gigs. Rolled out a new interface that’s easier to use. Some of our yearly highlights include: March: Gigwalk gets a makeover Our new dashboard redesign features an easy-to-read layout that provides status updates at a glance. May: enhanced filtering for deeper insights Powerful new filtering tools let Gigwalk customers dig deeper into their campaigns to see what’s working and what’s not.
August: Gigwalk for Android launches Working through the dog days of summer, our developers release Gigwalk for Android. “YES!! September: a modern interface for iPhone and Android. EU: Roamler offers retailer and supplier quick and accurate shelf information. EU: Roamler offers retailer and supplier quick and accurate shelf information In the past, companies hired so-called mystery shoppers to visit stores to check if their product was marketed the right way.
Nowadays the procedure is much faster, with retailers and suppliers working together with a group of smartphone owners who provide direct answers to their questions. Is the price is displayed correctly? Are promotional activities reaching the right customers? Enter the Roamler app. Roamler explanimation from Roamler on Vimeo.
Simply put, Roamler is a smartphone application that operators can use to earn cash by performing commands. Photos and factsRoamler was founded by Wiggert de Haan and Martijn Nijhuis, a little over two years ago. FunOne of the Roamlers of the first hour is Christiaan Rijnhout. For a Primeur exclusive, Roamler went to work with peppers. An impression:What is the country of origin of the red peppers? What do you think of the quality of the red peppers? The scary new labormetrics of work. Matt Crampton is pushing back against my charge that his company, Gigwalk, is contributing to class stratification in the United States.
And to be perfectly fair, I’ve got to admit that Crampton doesn’t look much like the embodiment of Silicon Valley income inequality. Sitting across a table from me at a Berkeley cafe, sporting a long bushy red beard, the co-founder and CTO of Gigwalk looks more like a Brooklyn hipster on his way to Burning Man than a paradigm-busting pioneer on the new frontier of work.
“We are creating kinds of work that have never existed before,” says Crampton. “The average person who downloads our app is finding work that they just wouldn’t have had access to previously.” He makes a provocative case. For example: Suppose PepsiCo wants to make sure that its promotional displays are properly set up at grocery stores around the country. That’s interesting. “Gigwalk could be the eBay of work,” suggests MIT labor economist David Autor, half-jokingly. Maybe. Press Ganey Adds Survey Company. January 6, 2013 News Release SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 6, 2014 -- Press Ganey, the leading patient experience improvement firm, today announced the acquisition of On The Spot Systems®, a point-of-care survey technology firm that enables organizations to capture real-time patient feedback.
The acquisition advances Press Ganey's Patient Voice™ portfolio for health care organizations by adding Point of Care to existing modes of mail, phone and eSurvey. Point of Care expands feedback via any tablet or mobile device enabling providers to improve patient engagement across the continuum of care. "We are excited to bring this next-generation technology to our clients as they look to capture feedback across the entire care experience and achieve greater care coordination," said Patrick T.
The software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solution allows provider organizations to customize surveys for targeted improvement efforts. Source: Press Ganey Associates Inc. Shop Bust.