Workforce Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A SaaS platform for contracting out workforce management.

455

3 years ago

An AI platform that helps companies evaluate their employees. The startup wants to help companies figure out what skills are most important for their companies and the best places to put those employees, building a more efficient workforce.

317

5 years ago

Idea: A remote workforce management platform

284

5 years ago

Idea: A tool to help companies manage their distributed workforce

161

5 years ago

A self-serve platform that connects independent contractors and clients across North America. The startup says their platform helps to reduce the overhead of managing a workforce, while providing an easy way for employers to find talent.

159

5 years ago

A “Mobile-first enterprise” platform that offers “one-to-many communication” for companies. It’s meant for companies with a “live, real-time workforce.” The startup has raised $150MM in venture funding.

155

4 years ago

A free anonymous email account for the homeless, and a way to use email from the homeless in the workforce.

153

5 years ago

Matching job seekers with employers, coupled with goal-setting and coaching, could help reduce the representation of men in the American workforce.

151

5 years ago

This startup works with agencies to help them find workers, and then helps them manage that workforce. The startup has already worked with The Onion, the New Yorker, and others.

147

5 years ago

Ona is a mobile workforce management tool that helps companies and employers manage their employees’ work schedules and attendance. Ona helps companies save money by reducing the amount of time they have to spend on payroll as well as on training new employees.

146

5 years ago

A digital HR software from a company that helps companies hire and manage their workforce quickly and easily. The company is a licensed employer in North Carolina.

145

5 years ago

Tiller is a way to make workforce management more efficient, says the startup. It’s a B2B SaaS platform that allows companies to manage multiple company’s HR data, including benefits, payroll, time clock and benefits, and more.

137

5 years ago

A B2B company that helps businesses hire, manage their workforce. It currently has one client and is looking for another.

118

2 years ago

The startup wants to create a better way for companies to manage their workforce’s time. Instead of using spreadsheets and other clunky tools, it wants to use a more sophisticated series of games and visualizations to make it easier to track and manage employees' time.

115

2 years ago

A company that helps employers create “micro-workforce” solutions, allowing employers to outsource tasks without hiring full-time employees. The startup is building a product that helps B2B companies scale without hiring.

115

5 years ago

A company that plans to bring the benefits of cloud computing to the workforce by letting companies hire freelancers who are computers.

113

4 years ago

A business-to-business (B2B) marketplace that connects freelancers with businesses. The company wants to disrupt the freelance economy by allowing businesses to scale and manage their workforces.

109

5 years ago

A software company that sells software that allows companies to manage their workforce data, including payroll, benefits, and hours.

107

5 years ago

An HR startup that wants to help companies optimize their HR workforce by giving them a better understanding of their talent pipelines.

104

4 years ago

The startup wants to build a tool to help employers manage their workforces, using algorithms to calculate and monetize various work hours.

102

3 years ago

India’s first all-in-one, cloud-based, enterprise-grade workforce management platform for SMBs.

96

3 years ago

The startup is building a ride-hailing service on the Uber model, with a focus on getting more women into the workforce.

96

5 years ago

Through its digital platform, the company provides an online marketplace for companies to hire out their excess workforce. It’s for businesses that don’t have the time to hire, manage, and track contractors, and whose employees don’t have the time to do it themselves.

93

3 years ago

A subscription-based service that helps businesses manage their workforce, including scheduling, recruitment, payroll and training.

88

4 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for companies to manage their workforce by tracking their hours, productivity, and revenue.

86

4 years ago

The startup is building a platform that helps companies connect with a workforce of industrial roboticists. It has 4 customers signed up, including a commercial drone company and a company that makes industrial robots.

80

2 years ago

A platform that allows companies to track and manage talent across their entire workforce, from hiring to performance management.

78

4 years ago

This is a tool that helps companies manage a workforce, from hiring to on-boarding to payment and benefits.

74

4 years ago

A support tool for the “millennial workforce”, a term the founders use to describe anyone born in the 1980s and 1990s.

73

4 years ago

The company’s idea is to create a service that helps re-integrate people with mental illnesses into the workforce. The app employs standard HR practices, but is customized for people with mental illness, offering support in the form of a personal guide for each person.

73

4 years ago

A software development company that wants to fix the “diversity gap” in Silicon Valley. The company’s co-founder says that men make up around 80% of the tech workforce, and women only 4% (and that the industry is even worse in other parts of the world).

73

3 years ago

A platform that helps employers keep track of all of their workforce data and helps them better manage their employee relationships.

73

4 years ago

This self-hire freelance platform is built for the modern workforce.

72

3 years ago

A startup that provides insights on the health of a company’s workforce, ranging from work-related stress to nutrition and sleep, and converting them into targeted interventions like health coaching, education, and more.

71

3 years ago

A software startup that makes it easy to manage and scale your workforce through automation.

71

4 years ago

A company that wants to create a more collaborative and efficient process for hiring a new employee. It’s an employer-side HR platform aimed at recruiting managers who use a proprietary algorithm, using data from their own workforce, to help them reach out to candidates the best way possible.

70

3 years ago

A global platform that connects students and alumni with employers, with a focus on helping students transition to the workforce.

70

4 years ago

A startup that lets you get data on your workforce from multiple sources and into one place

69

3 years ago

A digital platform that helps employers and candidates get matched with each other, via the platform. The company can also aggregate data from other sources and use it to find trends in the workforce. The company claims to have $10 million in funding and is profitable.

69

4 years ago

This is an app that helps companies track their “workforce”, or the people they work with. The startup is working to create a way for companies to track employees’ progress on a project via a web interface, as well as send alerts when certain things are due.

68

4 years ago

A software company building a tool called “Kronos” that helps companies track and manage their workforce, customers, and suppliers. They’ve built a prototype of their tool and are now looking for $100,000 in seed funding.

67

3 years ago

A startup to help companies bring in more women into their workforce, including job postings, interview scheduling, and other HR support.

67

3 years ago

Military veterans are often in search of employment when they leave the service, and are often left with a gap in their resume that’s hard to fill. This startup is working to help them get back into the workforce by building a platform to help them find jobs and apply for positions, and connect employers with talent.

66

3 years ago

A startup for managing workforce data and HR processes. The startup is currently in private beta.

66

4 years ago

A startup that brings financial advisor services to the remote workforce, giving workers access to virtual advisors 24/7.

62

3 years ago

The startup is built around an ad-hoc infrastructure for sharing small jobs (up to $100) between companies. Previously, small businesses have to either go through the pain of setting up their own internal app or use their own separate contractor management platform (like TaskRabbit). The startup uses its API to help companies manage their workforces, with a platform that allows for bid and project management.

62

3 years ago

A tool for the world’s leading companies to track and measure employee time, with the goal of creating a better, more productive workforce.

62

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies manage the diversity and inclusion of their workforce by connecting people with a shared interest in a particular topic.

61

3 years ago

A software company that offers a suite of tools for companies that want to make better use of their employees’ time. The startup’s focus is on assisting small and medium-sized businesses that have a large workforce and are trying to figure out where to spend their time.

59

3 years ago

A software company that connects businesses with a workforce that is on the same platform. Workers can be hired and fired in a snap, and the company is now focusing on the US.

59

4 years ago

A tool to help companies hire and manage a distributed workforce in the age of on-demand services. In a world of on-demand services, companies are looking for tools that will allow them to manage the people who work for them. Jobbird’s founders have already turned down $500,000 in investment.

58

3 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to help corporations figure out how to fix their workforce’s hiring problems.

55

2 years ago

A “crowd-sourced HR technology” that helps companies hire and manage the workforce in a more efficient fashion.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies build a user-friendly app for managing their workforce.

54

3 years ago

A platform for connecting a business’s entire workforce to its customers online, so that customers can find, communicate with and engage with employees through their social networks.

51

3 years ago

The company provides workforce data to businesses so they can evaluate their employee experience.

51

2 years ago

A new hire-and-learn workforce training startup.

50

2 years ago

A platform for scheduling remote workers with a focus on on-demand workforce management. Currently focused on the US, with plans to expand internationally. They’re looking for a US-based CEO.

45

3 years ago

A toolkit for big companies to manage their own tech support workforce, offering a new way to hire/manage tech support professionals.

44

2 years ago

A mobile app for agricultural workers in developing countries that helps them find jobs and learn skills in the workforce. It also helps businesses find workers and enables them to learn about labor laws and safety.

42

2 years ago

A social network built around the idea of the “disconnected workforce.” As the name suggests, it aims to be a network of remote workers who can easily meet up and collaborate. It’s live in New York City, and in the past nine months has grown from 20 to 50 employees.

42

3 years ago

To make it easier for companies to recruit and manage their freelance workforce, this startup’s software offers an all-in-one platform for managing projects and managing the team that does them.

41

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a system that allows companies to create a virtual workforce and hire remote employees from a customer base.

41

2 years ago

A company that connects employers with contractors to create a more streamlined, efficient and cost-effective workforce.

38

2 years ago

Collaborative distribution for the remote workforce. It’s like Task Rabbit, except for remote workers.

38

2 years ago

A platform that lets companies hire virtual assistants in their own time, complete with their own dashboard and dashboard settings. It’s a way for companies to manage their workforce more effectively.

36

2 years ago

A platform for businesses to organize their freelance workforce and automate some of the labor-intensive tasks.

34

2 years ago

With high unemployment and a low workforce participation rate, the US needs to expand its workforce by 1.5 million workers per year — but there just aren’t enough people with the right skills to fill these positions. Hubstaff aims to help companies find and retain these employees.

33

2 years ago

A startup that helps users manage their digital footprint for those looking to join the workforce.

33

2 years ago

The startup is building a software platform that allows small businesses to post jobs and manage their workforces. The software will be free for businesses to use, and have a premium feature that allows companies to pay for tools like accounting and HR.

32

2 years ago

A startup that wants to create “virtual schedules” of the entire US workforce, and put them online for companies to use.

31

2 years ago

A company that helps employers manage benefits for their workforce, including 401k, health insurance, and retirement savings.

28

2 years ago

A two-sided marketplace where employers are able to find employees in need of temporary workforce.

26

2 years ago

A tool that helps people in the workforce handle a variety of tasks from payroll to benefits to insurance.

24

2 years ago

Dedicated to helping people with cognitive disabilities better participate in the workforce, the startup provides software to help people learn about their rights in the workplace.

21

2 years ago

A tool for managing your personal ethics and giving the team the ability to have that information in the digital workforce.

18

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies better manage their workforce. It’s currently negotiating with several Fortune 500 companies.

17

2 years ago

A startup that aims to help people get the most out of their current workforce — by finding and connecting people with skills they need.

16

2 years ago

A messaging app for people in the workforce, combining group messaging and working together on projects.

14

5 years ago

A SaaS startup helping companies manage their on-demand workforces, with a focus on payroll. A platform for getting paid for work on apps.

1

5 years ago

Idea: A company that offers remote workforce management software for businesses that have more than 100 employees

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5 years ago

Idea: A software-enabled workforce, where employees can be their own bosses

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes it easy to make a video covering a news story, using an on-demand, cheap workforce in the Philippines.

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Workforce Startup Ideas

A SaaS platform for contracting out workforce management.

An AI platform that helps companies evaluate their employees. The startup wants to help companies figure out what skills are most important for their companies and the best places to put those employees, building a more efficient workforce.

Idea: A remote workforce management platform

Idea: A tool to help companies manage their distributed workforce

A self-serve platform that connects independent contractors and clients across North America. The startup says their platform helps to reduce the overhead of managing a workforce, while providing an easy way for employers to find talent.

A “Mobile-first enterprise” platform that offers “one-to-many communication” for companies. It’s meant for companies with a “live, real-time workforce.” The startup has raised $150MM in venture funding.

A free anonymous email account for the homeless, and a way to use email from the homeless in the workforce.

Matching job seekers with employers, coupled with goal-setting and coaching, could help reduce the representation of men in the American workforce.

This startup works with agencies to help them find workers, and then helps them manage that workforce. The startup has already worked with The Onion, the New Yorker, and others.

Ona is a mobile workforce management tool that helps companies and employers manage their employees’ work schedules and attendance. Ona helps companies save money by reducing the amount of time they have to spend on payroll as well as on training new employees.

A digital HR software from a company that helps companies hire and manage their workforce quickly and easily. The company is a licensed employer in North Carolina.

Tiller is a way to make workforce management more efficient, says the startup. It’s a B2B SaaS platform that allows companies to manage multiple company’s HR data, including benefits, payroll, time clock and benefits, and more.

A B2B company that helps businesses hire, manage their workforce. It currently has one client and is looking for another.

The startup wants to create a better way for companies to manage their workforce’s time. Instead of using spreadsheets and other clunky tools, it wants to use a more sophisticated series of games and visualizations to make it easier to track and manage employees' time.

A company that helps employers create “micro-workforce” solutions, allowing employers to outsource tasks without hiring full-time employees. The startup is building a product that helps B2B companies scale without hiring.

A company that plans to bring the benefits of cloud computing to the workforce by letting companies hire freelancers who are computers.

A business-to-business (B2B) marketplace that connects freelancers with businesses. The company wants to disrupt the freelance economy by allowing businesses to scale and manage their workforces.

A software company that sells software that allows companies to manage their workforce data, including payroll, benefits, and hours.

An HR startup that wants to help companies optimize their HR workforce by giving them a better understanding of their talent pipelines.

The startup wants to build a tool to help employers manage their workforces, using algorithms to calculate and monetize various work hours.

India’s first all-in-one, cloud-based, enterprise-grade workforce management platform for SMBs.

The startup is building a ride-hailing service on the Uber model, with a focus on getting more women into the workforce.

Through its digital platform, the company provides an online marketplace for companies to hire out their excess workforce. It’s for businesses that don’t have the time to hire, manage, and track contractors, and whose employees don’t have the time to do it themselves.

A subscription-based service that helps businesses manage their workforce, including scheduling, recruitment, payroll and training.

A startup that provides a platform for companies to manage their workforce by tracking their hours, productivity, and revenue.

The startup is building a platform that helps companies connect with a workforce of industrial roboticists. It has 4 customers signed up, including a commercial drone company and a company that makes industrial robots.

A platform that allows companies to track and manage talent across their entire workforce, from hiring to performance management.

This is a tool that helps companies manage a workforce, from hiring to on-boarding to payment and benefits.

A support tool for the “millennial workforce”, a term the founders use to describe anyone born in the 1980s and 1990s.

The company’s idea is to create a service that helps re-integrate people with mental illnesses into the workforce. The app employs standard HR practices, but is customized for people with mental illness, offering support in the form of a personal guide for each person.

A software development company that wants to fix the “diversity gap” in Silicon Valley. The company’s co-founder says that men make up around 80% of the tech workforce, and women only 4% (and that the industry is even worse in other parts of the world).

A platform that helps employers keep track of all of their workforce data and helps them better manage their employee relationships.

This self-hire freelance platform is built for the modern workforce.

A startup that provides insights on the health of a company’s workforce, ranging from work-related stress to nutrition and sleep, and converting them into targeted interventions like health coaching, education, and more.

A software startup that makes it easy to manage and scale your workforce through automation.

A company that wants to create a more collaborative and efficient process for hiring a new employee. It’s an employer-side HR platform aimed at recruiting managers who use a proprietary algorithm, using data from their own workforce, to help them reach out to candidates the best way possible.

A global platform that connects students and alumni with employers, with a focus on helping students transition to the workforce.

A startup that lets you get data on your workforce from multiple sources and into one place

A digital platform that helps employers and candidates get matched with each other, via the platform. The company can also aggregate data from other sources and use it to find trends in the workforce. The company claims to have $10 million in funding and is profitable.

This is an app that helps companies track their “workforce”, or the people they work with. The startup is working to create a way for companies to track employees’ progress on a project via a web interface, as well as send alerts when certain things are due.

A software company building a tool called “Kronos” that helps companies track and manage their workforce, customers, and suppliers. They’ve built a prototype of their tool and are now looking for $100,000 in seed funding.

A startup to help companies bring in more women into their workforce, including job postings, interview scheduling, and other HR support.

A startup for managing workforce data and HR processes. The startup is currently in private beta.

A startup that brings financial advisor services to the remote workforce, giving workers access to virtual advisors 24/7.

A tool for the world’s leading companies to track and measure employee time, with the goal of creating a better, more productive workforce.

A startup that helps companies manage the diversity and inclusion of their workforce by connecting people with a shared interest in a particular topic.

A software company that offers a suite of tools for companies that want to make better use of their employees’ time. The startup’s focus is on assisting small and medium-sized businesses that have a large workforce and are trying to figure out where to spend their time.

A software company that connects businesses with a workforce that is on the same platform. Workers can be hired and fired in a snap, and the company is now focusing on the US.

A tool to help companies hire and manage a distributed workforce in the age of on-demand services. In a world of on-demand services, companies are looking for tools that will allow them to manage the people who work for them. Jobbird’s founders have already turned down $500,000 in investment.

A startup that wants to use AI to help corporations figure out how to fix their workforce’s hiring problems.

A “crowd-sourced HR technology” that helps companies hire and manage the workforce in a more efficient fashion.

A startup that helps companies build a user-friendly app for managing their workforce.

A platform for connecting a business’s entire workforce to its customers online, so that customers can find, communicate with and engage with employees through their social networks.

The company provides workforce data to businesses so they can evaluate their employee experience.

A new hire-and-learn workforce training startup.

A platform for scheduling remote workers with a focus on on-demand workforce management. Currently focused on the US, with plans to expand internationally. They’re looking for a US-based CEO.

A toolkit for big companies to manage their own tech support workforce, offering a new way to hire/manage tech support professionals.

A mobile app for agricultural workers in developing countries that helps them find jobs and learn skills in the workforce. It also helps businesses find workers and enables them to learn about labor laws and safety.

A social network built around the idea of the “disconnected workforce.” As the name suggests, it aims to be a network of remote workers who can easily meet up and collaborate. It’s live in New York City, and in the past nine months has grown from 20 to 50 employees.

To make it easier for companies to recruit and manage their freelance workforce, this startup’s software offers an all-in-one platform for managing projects and managing the team that does them.

A startup that wants to build a system that allows companies to create a virtual workforce and hire remote employees from a customer base.

A company that connects employers with contractors to create a more streamlined, efficient and cost-effective workforce.

Collaborative distribution for the remote workforce. It’s like Task Rabbit, except for remote workers.

A platform that lets companies hire virtual assistants in their own time, complete with their own dashboard and dashboard settings. It’s a way for companies to manage their workforce more effectively.

A platform for businesses to organize their freelance workforce and automate some of the labor-intensive tasks.

With high unemployment and a low workforce participation rate, the US needs to expand its workforce by 1.5 million workers per year — but there just aren’t enough people with the right skills to fill these positions. Hubstaff aims to help companies find and retain these employees.

A startup that helps users manage their digital footprint for those looking to join the workforce.

The startup is building a software platform that allows small businesses to post jobs and manage their workforces. The software will be free for businesses to use, and have a premium feature that allows companies to pay for tools like accounting and HR.

A startup that wants to create “virtual schedules” of the entire US workforce, and put them online for companies to use.

A company that helps employers manage benefits for their workforce, including 401k, health insurance, and retirement savings.

A two-sided marketplace where employers are able to find employees in need of temporary workforce.

A tool that helps people in the workforce handle a variety of tasks from payroll to benefits to insurance.

Dedicated to helping people with cognitive disabilities better participate in the workforce, the startup provides software to help people learn about their rights in the workplace.

A tool for managing your personal ethics and giving the team the ability to have that information in the digital workforce.

A startup that wants to help companies better manage their workforce. It’s currently negotiating with several Fortune 500 companies.

A startup that aims to help people get the most out of their current workforce — by finding and connecting people with skills they need.

A messaging app for people in the workforce, combining group messaging and working together on projects.