Nesto Software GmbH has raised €11 million in growth equity from Expedition Growth Capital, targeting product development and the expansion of its AI assistant, NORA, for restaurant workflows.
A catering business is really more difficult to run because you might be really busy for a week and then another week you have very little. Restaurants tend to have more consistent hours and traffic. Catering doesn't always work that way.
About 40% of Chinese employees stay in one job for less than two years, according to a Hay Group study. In India, annual turnover of 50% or more is not unusual. That's clearly a problem, not only because constantly recruiting and training people over and over again is expensive, but because it's disruptive. Continuity, let alone growth, can be tough to maintain when half your team is made up of brand-new faces every few months.
Reload is a platform that lets organizations manage their AI agents across teams and departments. Companies can connect agents, regardless of who built them (whether by a third party or internally), assign them roles and permissions, and track the work they perform. "Reload acts like the system of record for AI employees, providing visibility, coordination, and oversight as agents operate across functions," said Asare, the company's CEO.
Beekeeper is an all-in-one communication and operations platform explicitly designed for shift-based teams, focusing on simplicity, mobility, and seamless deployment. Ideal for companies with large teams of frontline employees, the software's mobile-first design brings messaging, daily workflows, employee updates, and a resource hub all in one place. Beekeeper centralizes communication to reduce workplace conflict, improve compliance, and ensure teams receive critical information in real time.
Workforce management (WFM) software helps you plan, track and optimize labor. You build schedules, capture time, enforce pay rules and align staffing to demand. Real-time insights help managers forecast labor and shut down overtime before it starts. Consistency across teams reduces disputes and cleanup work. The benefits of workforce management software go beyond compliance. Teams follow the same time capture and scheduling playbook in every location. Automated rules reduce errors on overtime and breaks. Managers get early warnings on gaps and adjust staffing in minutes.
In tough economic times, employee experience tends to take a backseat to productivity. Companies slip into old habits, reducing workforce investments and pushing people to "do more with less." After all, employees should just be grateful to have jobs, right? People end up tolerating less-than-great environments to keep their paychecks. It's an unfortunate cycle that keeps repeating. The deskless perspective This cycle plays out differently on the frontline. Turnover is a constant reality-in good times and bad-in industries like retail, food service, healthcare, and hospitality.
Many businesses are reacting to rising costs by holding back on their workforce. While lower numbers may look good on paper, the negative impact will materialise as workers report burn-out, lower productivity, and absenteeism.
Earlier this year, some of our teams introduced a voluntary exit program with severance for U.S.-based Googlers, and several more are now offering the program to support our important work ahead.
A lot of defense and resilience innovation focuses on hardware assets. Yet, there's been a gap around secure, reliable systems for human coordination when it matters most.
