{"id":74491,"date":"2016-12-08T08:11:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T08:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/workforce-for-arcgis-making-a-difference\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:11:07","slug":"workforce-for-arcgis-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/field-mobility\/field-mobility\/workforce-for-arcgis-making-a-difference","title":{"rendered":"Workforce for ArcGIS making a difference!"},"author":3651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23261],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36701],"class_list":["post-74491","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-mobility","product-apps","product-workforce"],"acf":{"short_description":"Jordan Rogers, GIS technician at Utilities Kingston, saw the value that Workforce for ArcGIS could bring to their organization before the...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/UtilitiesKingston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-70944 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/UtilitiesKingston.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>Jordan Rogers, GIS technician at Utilities Kingston, saw the value that <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/workforce\/\">Workforce for ArcGIS<\/a> could bring to their organization before the product was released in July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe created all 5,300 assignments in Workforce for ArcGIS and then categorized them based on the type of work that needed to be done. 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