Parsable to Help WEF Optimize How Deskless Workers Will Be Truly “Connected” in the Workplace of The Future

SAN FRANCISCO – AUGUST 22, 2018 – Parsable, the Connected Worker Platform company, today announced that it has partnered with WEF, joining its Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. WEF’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution brings together governments, leading companies, and experts from around the world to co-design and pilot innovative approaches to work, as well as govern new technology.

In partnering with the WEF Center, Parsable continues to gain industry momentum following the recent announcement of its $40M Series C investment. Parsable will contribute its expertise in augmenting human workers with innovative technology, with the goal of helping them execute a larger variety of jobs more effectively and with greater precision. As the digital age continues to evolve, consumer expectations will only increase, forcing companies to achieve significantly better results while tackling even more complex, demanding work. Determining the most effective ways for human workers to leverage new technologies in order to optimize their efforts is critical. 

“Driven by digital innovation, The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings a myriad of new challenges and opportunities to the workplace,” said Zvika Krieger, Head of Technology Policy and Partnerships at the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “We’re focused on determining the most effective ways to leverage innovative technologies. Parsable has an incredible depth of knowledge in this area and we’re very much looking forward to working with them to explore best practices for the next generation of industry-leading companies.”

Parsable’s Connected Worker platform powers new agile business processes for industrial giants and innovation leaders in the industrial manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, and energy industries. Customers include Scientific Drilling, Silgan, Shell, TechnipFMC, Heineken, Grupo Bimbo, Holcim and more. The company has users in over 50 countries.

“With customers ranging from well known industrial giants to new, digital-native companies that began their operations by deploying digital work instructions, training, collaboration and measurement systems, we understand how digital transformation is impacting companies at each end of the spectrum,” said Lawrence Whittle, CEO at Parsable. “Our expertise in how humans, augmented by technology, can rapidly evolve the workplace tightly aligns with the Center’s mission, and we look forward to building the blueprints of the future of work with them.”

About Parsable

Parsable helps the world’s largest industrial firms get jobs done right — every time. Parsable provides a Connected Worker platform so employees can collaboratively execute their work using paperless, modern, and digital work instructions on modern mobile devices. In addition to measuring every step and action, employees can raise issues and provide feedback so that every process is quickly analyzed and improved. With Parsable, teams of Connected Workers know what they need to do and how to do it.

Parsable’s customers include Scientific Drilling, Silgan, Shell, TechnipFMC, Heineken, Grupo Bimbo, Holcim, and other category leaders in energy, industrial manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods. Founded by veterans of Accenture, Google, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and YouTube, Parsable is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Austin, New York, Vancouver, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland.

About the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Based in San Francisco, the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution brings together governments, leading companies, civil society and experts from around the world to co-design and pilot innovative approaches to the policy and governance of new technologies. The Center will develop, implement and scale agile and human-centered pilot projects that can be adopted by policy-makers, legislators and regulators worldwide to address challenges related to emerging technologies.