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AeroFS Joins With Tech Companies to Make Election Day A HolidayWith one of the lowest voter turnouts of any country, the U.S. is considered a laggard in getting its citizens into the voting booth on election day. Based on the estimated voting-age population, the U.S. ranks 31st out of 35 countries that comprise the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) [1]. One proposal to improve that statistic is to declare election day a national holiday. Because that would require an act of Congress, it's unlikely to happen for several election cycles. In the meantime, a group of tech entrepreneurs is moving ahead to encourage their employees to vote by making November 8 a company holiday. One of those entrepreneurs is Yuri Sagalov, co-founder and CEO of collaboration software startup AeroFS/Amium, based in Palo Alto (News - Alert). Yuri's blog posting about this issue can be found at tinyur.com/z27mw37. The complete list of participating companies can be found here: http://takeoffelectionday.com/companies. About AeroFS With Amium, the industry's first content-centric collaboration solution, AeroFS changes the way enterprise teams work. The cloud-based Amium solution unifies file sharing, file synchronization, team messaging, and associated collaboration activities in one place and in real time to make teamwork more efficient. AeroFS collaboration solutions help customers in marketing, design, financial services, government, energy, and other sectors improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their work teams. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is funded by blue-chip investors, including Avalon Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. Learn more about AeroFS at aerofs.com. [1] Pew (News - Alert) Research: U.S. voter turnout trails most developed countries, August 2, 2016 View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161103005397/en/ |
