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Linked – Why Amazon’s New Social Media Site Should Not Be Ignored
I suppose this was inevitable, but does the world really need a social network for shopping? “Amazon Spark has one big advantage over Instagram. That’s because its e-commerce component is integrated directly into the social feed. Instagram can’t compete with that. In fact, Spark users can shop on Amazon without even leaving the social site.”…
Linked: Feeling Burnt Out? Maybe It’s Because You Haven’t Taken A Real Day Off In A Year
Take time off, real time off, not “no meetings during the day but catching up on emails for 4 hours that evening” time off, actual disconnected, unreachable, time away from work. And, encourage the people who work for you to do exactly that too.
Linked: The Rise of the 9 p.m. Work Hour
One of the bigger management issues surrounding the remote work model is how and when to communicate. I’m an advocate of more communication, always. I’m a huge advocate of a lot more communication with a remote team.
But, we also have to think about the best way to work together. There are lots, and lots, of meetings that are designed to create better communication but aren’t necessary. Most of them are recurring meetings that no one ever cancels, even when there’s nothing urgent to discuss. Just because we’ve always had this meeting, and we always will.
That’s not a good reason to meet. At the end of the day, if your check-ins or project status meetings are nothing more than a “here’s where we are this week,” we might consider whether it makes more sense for people to send an email instead. Or even a Teams/Slack chat? It’s the same information, but no one has to plan their day around it.
Linked – Successful, Cost-Effective eDiscovery Requires A Team Approach
This is so good, I just wanted to quote it here: “But here’s the rub: because you’re the strategist, you have to be involved in figuring out what to look for. And I don’t just mean the associates, I mean you, the Chief Strategist for the matter. Your input on what is important for discovery…
Linked: Why The 2021 ‘Turnover Tsunami’ Is Happening And What Business Leaders Can Do To Prepare
Sadly, most of the mentions I’ve seen of these issues place the blame squarely outside of the employer. It’s the government’s fault for being too generous with stimulus checks and unemployment benefits, it’s the lockdowns and working from home, it’s the lack of daycare options, etc.
What they all fail to mention, that this article at least starts to recognize, is that there are actually a lot of things employers could do.
