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Velocity Global is a B2B software company that helps businesses hire and pay global talent. Liz Li joined the company as chief product officer after a 12-year tenure at LinkedIn in September 2022 with the goal to “ruthlessly prioritize” efficiency. "Velocity Global has a very strong mission for simplifying work, and technology is a great way for us to actually achieve those goals." But Li believes tech should be viewed simply as a tool — not a save-all when resources are scarce, but a way to help teams work better, not harder. "We're able to discover bigger issues for us to tackle and where we should shift our resources," Li said.
Persons: Liz Li, , Li, Li's Organizations: LinkedIn, Morning, Velocity Global
Corporate bosses are getting return-to-office requirements all wrong, global work experts and remote leaders said during a panel conversation at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, recently. Many bosses land on three days a week as if it's "the magical number. As far as best practices go, Bush says "every leader should listen better" and understand how teams work best based on one-on-one conversations, surveys, focus groups or 90-day trial runs. Sarah Fern, chief people officer at Velocity Global, says listening is the biggest challenge for remote leaders — and most importantly, understanding what you're not hearing. 'There are not good remote work policies in place'
HR and remote work startup Velocity Global has laid off 10% of its workforce, Insider understands. The Denver-based company counts US billionaire Todd Boehly's Eldridge among its biggest backers. Velocity Global, an HR platform backed by US billionaire Todd Boehly's investment fund, has laid off over a tenth of its workforce. The cuts at Velocity come as part of a wave of wider layoffs in the tech sector and a cooling off in the HR and remote work sector. HR companies enjoyed a pandemic boom through 2020 and 2021 as firms began experimenting with hybrid work, requiring new processes and platforms.
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