Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #37
Workplace and Careers
This is How Your Workplace Can Survive the Great Resignation — www.entrepreneur.com Creating a remote-friendly work environment is more than just allowing employees to work from home when they want. Here's how your company can foster a culture that's truly equitable for remote workers.
Workers Are Winning the Return-to-Office War Because They’re Right - Bloomberg — www.bloomberg.com The deepening clash between knowledge workers and companies is more than just a struggle over commuting and convenience. It is a clash over the meaning of work.
Linked: Some workers can't afford to RTO — www.mikemcbrideonline.com As someone who has worked remotely since mid-2019, I have appreciated the number of ways my life is less expensive for a while. That was before the recent bout of inflation, though. How much more am I saving by driving infrequently, not paying for parking or public transit, not needing to buy new business clothes, and eating the food I have in my house for lunch every day? This was not insignificant in 2019 when I made the change. In 2022 that has to be much more than it was. So, when you're contemplating your return to the office strategy, are you calculating the pay cut you're forcing on all of your employees, and how many of them can't actually afford that?
Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation — sloanreview.mit.edu Data analysis reveals the top reasons behind the Great Resignation and actions managers can take to reduce attrition.
Older workers in higher-paid industries are joining the Great Resignation - Vox — www.vox.com The main growth in quit rates is coming from more tenured workers in industries like finance and tech.
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
ESI Protocol Disputes Addressed by Court — ediscoverytoday.com Here, the Court ruled on two ESI Protocol disputes related to search obligations and terms to finalize the parties’ ESI protocol.
Courtroom Presentation 101: Tell a Compelling Story - Nextpoint — www.nextpoint.com Learn how to use strong visuals to make your courtroom presentation more impactful in front of a judge, panel or jury.
Training
Linked: A Return to the Office Doesn’t Have to Mean a Return to Boring Presentations — www.mikemcbrideonline.com The number of people who can read one thing and listen to another is very small. It might be zero. Our brains can't process two different things that require our understanding simultaneously. Of course, that also doesn't mean that you just read your slides. That's just boring. No one likes boring either. Visuals. It's all about the visuals.
Privacy and Security
Linked: Data breaches happen constantly and there are very little consequences — www.mikemcbrideonline.com
This is the crux of the problem. Personal information is going to be breached, eventually. There is no 100% secure data. None. No business, government entity, non-profit, or any other place that collects and stores data is completely secure. The only true security for personal information is to not have it. To have not collected it or delete it once it's no longer needed. That is the radical re-think that is necessary. It's also the complete opposite of everything these organizations have been taught and incentivized to do. If we are going to pass federal privacy laws, this should be the central theme.
You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security — krebsonsecurity.com Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after…
Linked: Data From Fake Legal Requests Used to Sexually Extort Minors — www.mikemcbrideonline.com In this case, we have an emergency process. There are good reasons to have that process, if someone is threatening violence to themselves on social media, it's useful for the tech company to share some information with law enforcement so they can be reached. But, having the ability to get that kind of response from tech companies is also an invitation to hackers. If they can create a fake emergency request they can collect personal information about any user. They can then use that information to target that individual. When you create that kind of system, the request needs to be coming from a safe, verified, source. When the source is compromised, and the receiver doesn't have an excellent validation process, bad things are going to happen. Because when you have that kind of data, people will try and do bad things with it.
Linked: 8-Character Passwords Can Be Cracked in Less than 60 Minutes — www.mikemcbrideonline.com So, best practices? - use complex passwords. - use each complex password on exactly one website. (Do NOT reuse). - use a password manager to keep track of all those passwords. - Use multi-factor authentication when available, as an extra step beyond your password.
Mental Health
Straight Talk on Mental Wellness at Work – Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC — safetyalliancebc.ca In this panel discussion, hear from British Columbia business leaders and a psychological safety expert and co-creator of Guarding [email protected] about the impact of employees’ personal mental health struggles on company culture and performance – and practical steps to support mental wellness at work.
Linked: It’s Time For Employers To Support Youth Mental Health — www.mikemcbrideonline.com This is sometimes a missing piece regarding mental health and work. It's not just the people who work for you, it's the people who work for you with kids
Entrepreneurs Are Struggling With Mental Health — But Where’s the Support? Entrepreneurs are struggling with their mental health but lack support.