MS digital rights management scheme cracked
Gee didn’t see this coming at all. They are asking for it by not allowing what has been “fair use” up until now.
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Linked – How to spot wellbeing washing at work
As pointed out in the link below, these types of behaviors break trust. I can’t trust leadership who doesn’t act in a way that matches the talk, and in too many cases the talk about well-being is just talk. You could say the same about diversity and inclusion and other efforts that exist mostly to appeal to customers and potential employees instead of demonstrating a true commitment to those things.
Linked – Managers Should Encourage Employee Development
The article below mentions something we’ve all seen way too many times. The manager who gets promoted, but never developed any of their reports to do their job, and winds up having to continue doing it. In the worst-case scenario, since the culture was not to develop people to replace you, that person is probably also learning the new role from scratch while still doing a large chunk of their old role.
What a waste of time and talent.
Linked: Actions of a good boss turning into a bad boss
It’s true. Our words and actions, especially when things are stressful, undermine what we think we are. You may think you’re being a good boss, and maybe most of the time you are, but those days when you’re stressed and short with people or the days you decide to not deal with a problem, become the days that define you in the eyes of the people who report to you.
To them, you aren’t just another person having a bad day. You are the person who controls their success at this company for better or worse, so it’s not just you having a bad day, it’s the organization having a bad day, directed at them.
I’m not sure why it’s news that employees after layoffs aren’t engaged, but it is.
This is true at Microsoft and it’s true at every other company that has made similar moves. I have no idea why anyone would think cutting jobs and forgoing raises would not have this kind of impact on employee morale, but I suspect there were a lot of C-Suite folks who did, or maybe they knew and just didn’t care.
