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MONTREAL, Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- The newly appointed Chief Strategy Officer brings more than two decades of

   driving strategy for transformative and collaborative solutions

WorkJam (

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), the leading digital workplace platform for organizations with frontline

employees, today announces the appointment of Rich Halbert as Chief Strategy

Officer. Rich brings more than two decades of experience developing strategy,

building implementation approaches, and driving adoption of frontline digital

workplace platforms. He will have oversight of defining the company's space in

the market and also strengthening strategic alliances.

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Rich hails from Microsoft [MSFT], where he held various product group,

engineering and business development roles since he began with the company in

2003. His most recent position was with Microsoft Teams, where he served as the

Firstline worker subject matter expert, driving strategy, working across the

company to deliver on the Firstline vision and engaging closely with customers

all over the world. Prior to joining Microsoft Teams, Rich held management

positions at two Paul Allen startups, Digeo and Mercata.

"As WorkJam continues to aggressively grow, the addition of Rich Halbert will

strengthen our ability to continue to innovate and deliver the leading digital

workplace platform for frontline workers. Rich's vision is so well aligned with

WorkJam's and what is required to further allow organizations to save

significant costs while providing the tools necessary to be competitive in

today's environment," said Steven Kramer, CEO & President at WorkJam. "An

industry pioneer with an impressive track record, we knew Rich could

supercharge the execution of our vision, strategy, distribution and product.

We're fortunate to welcome Rich to the team and we look forward to sharing his

expertise both internally and externally. Rich is already working on impressive

and exciting areas of innovation that will be impactful."

Rich's appointment is WorkJam's latest exemplification of rapid growth in the

past year. In February, WorkJam acquired Forge, an on-demand staffing platform.

Shortly after, the company closed an oversubscribed $50 million USD Series C

round led by top Canadian venture capital firm Inovia Capital, with

participation from Fonds de Solidarité FTQ. All existing investors also

participated in the round including Lerer Hippeau, Blumberg Capital, Claridge

Inc., Harmony Partners and WorkJam's management team.

"WorkJam is the clear market leader for digital workplace technology for the

frontline workforce," said Rich. "My passion is to build technology that can

impact the lives of the world's 2+ billion frontline workers and I am thrilled

to be joining WorkJam which has created industry-leading solutions tailored to

these worker's needs. I look forward to joining the many industry experts that

make up WorkJam's talented team."

To learn more about WorkJam, please visit: https://www.workjam.com/

About WorkJam

WorkJam is the Digital Workplace Platform industry leaders choose to unleash

the full potential of their non-desk workforces. Available in over 28 languages

and deployed in over 35 countries across the world, large-enterprise and

mid-market companies using WorkJam have the ability to communicate across their

non-desk workforce, help them understand and execute tasks, provide them with

training, offer schedule self-service and a multi-location open shift

marketplace, recognize, and reward employees and more - all through any mobile

or desktop device. WorkJam is also loved by employees of these organizations

due to the knowledge, flexibility and digital relationship created through the

platform. Available as individual modules or in one complete solution that can

be implemented in as little as five days, WorkJam has deep expertise in

developing its platform for the applicable compliance, work rules and workflows

required for non-desk employee organizations. Companies running on WorkJam

achieve breakthrough cost-savings, productivity increases, and optimal labor

utilization while motivating and engaging their non-desk workforce. Learn more

at https://www.workjam.com/

Media Contact

Adam Hatch

+1 617.359.9946

adam.hatch@workjam.com

SOURCE: WorkJam