Mike McBride on Tech, eDiscovery and Mental Health - Issue #22
What do you think about a 4-day work week? Could we eliminate a lot of the "busy" work and extra meetings and get the same amount of work done in 32 hours instead of 40? I think we could, but we need to change the culture of "always available" in many industries before we could consider it. Still, it's one of the links I'm sending your way the week. Enjoy!
Careers and the Workplace
Why not a four-day workweek? | Computerworld — www.computerworld.com We’re no longer a 19th-century economy, and it’s time to stop thinking of our workweek that way.
What's Your Definition of What a Job Should Be? — www.mikemcbrideonline.com That's it. I know there are some who will tell you that they are passionate about their work, and they "never work a day in my life". Good for them, but we have to start admitting that is a very small, select, group of people in a very small, select number of jobs. There are not billions of jobs out there like that for everyone to just go get. There are not even millions of them. Maybe I'm not going to change the world by doing just interesting work with people I don't hate. That's OK because I have the time to change the world in my own little way when I'm not working instead.
Make Learning a Part of Your Daily Routine — hbr.org Strategies to help you get better at learning, unlearning, and relearning.
Mental Health
Linked: One in two employees reluctant to disclose a mental health condition at work — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Through all of this, we still haven't addressed the tough parts. Sure, we've offered time off. We've told people it's OK to not be OK. We've offered mental health apps for free. Maybe we've even offered more significant mental health benefits, or done sessions during the workday on stress and burnout. What we haven't done in many cases are the harder things, like creating a culture that is not rewarding all of the things we encourage employees not to do.
A New Era of Workplace Safety: Prioritizing Psychosocial Health Organizations can improve workplace safety by not only focusing on physical protection but the psychological needs of employees.
eDiscovery and LegalTech
Managing Change, Improving Adoption: How IT Can Better Support the Legal Department
Microsoft Teams Recordings Now Expire in Sixty Days — ediscoverytoday.com
- I agree with Doug, from an eDiscovery point of view this is something you need to consider
Security
Cybersecurity training isn't working. And hacking attacks are only getting worse | ZDNet — www.zdnet.com As the internet becomes an increasingly vital part of our lives, more needs to be done to prevent vital services from being disrupted.
What's Next on the Ban List, Curtains? — www.mikemcbrideonline.com If you've been paying attention to the news lately, it seems that some of the things that innocent people might use to protect themselves from bad people,
Linked: Malicious QR Codes - The Digital Slip & Fall — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Sarah makes a valid point. Sure, during the COVID pandemic it's nice that you can go into a restaurant and scan a QR code to view the menu instead of handling physical menus. I worked in a restaurant kitchen in college, I know how nasty some menus can get. On the other hand, are we teaching people to trust something they shouldn't trust?
Preparing For the Next Cybersecurity Epidemic: Deepfakes — www.darkreading.com
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Technology
Linked: Cities and States Find New Ways to Tax Streaming Services — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I reject that argument too, and here is why. In order to be a customer of Netflix, Disney+, etc. you need broadband internet access, which runs through those wireline facilities. The ISP is already paying for using the right of way and passing that expense on to you. Any service, streaming video, audio, websites you visit, etc. is using the connection that has already been paid for and passed on to you. Taxing each individual service simply creates a situation where there is one connection using the infrastructure, being paid for over and over again and then being passed back to you over and over again.