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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I mean, naturally: “Clearly cybersecurity is everybody’s problem.” If you have access to anything that is not publicly available inside and outside of your workplace, then you have some responsibility for keeping it secure. Creating a workplace atmosphere that recognizes that reality is the job of the most senior management. Otherwise, you’ll have a whole…
I think this article, while helpful, also hints at a larger societal problem that many of us have been thinking about and that is what role our work plays in our overall lives and our sense of work. Working all the time isn’t just something we sometimes do. It’s part and parcel of being “important” in our society. Let’s face it, when someone tells us they disconnect in the evenings and weekends, our first thought is not “Oh how healthy”, it is much more to be “Oh you must not be very important then”.
Until that perception changes, I don’t know that we’ll make much progress, but it does need to change. Our work plays far too much of a role in our self-worth and therefore is it is far too easy to take advantage of employees.
Really enjoyed this article from Attorney at Work, because stories like this one just go to show how important it is to acknowledge the people who work for, and with, you: Consider the late Bob Bergland, a former U.S. secretary of agriculture and member of Congress who later worked as the general manager of an…
Over the years I’ve worked with technology, I’ve listened to many, many complaints about the technological tools that folks are using in their work. Everything from poor interfaces, slow response times, and various limitations of the tools. One of the more interesting ones I’ve seen though, are the folks who get bad data from a…
This doesn’t surprise me at all. Does it surprise you? Research being presented found that current resources available to employees and organisations only cover the absence period itself, and there is a lack of guidance available to support a successful return to work. This research is UK and EU based, but anecdotally in the US,…