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Not surprising: The study, to be presented at the Royal Geographical Society on Thursday, found that 54% of commuters using the train’s wi-fi were sending work emails. Others were using their own mobile phone connections for work emails. Those on the way to work were catching up with emails sent ahead of the coming day…
Linked – Russia Imprisoning Dozens Of Social Media Critics For ‘Hate Speech’
“So what kind of “hate speech” on social media is now leading to Russians being sent to prison? Apparently anyone criticizing Russia’s involvement in Ukraine: Several months after his arrest, Bubeyev pleaded guilty to inciting hatred toward Russians and was sentenced to a year in prison. His offense was sharing articles, photos and videos from…
Linked – Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks
Universities are an obvious target for hackers, for some really obvious reasons. Usually you have a relatively inexperienced IT workforce, a risk-unaware user base, and one thing that may come as a surprise to many outside of these environments, an extremely insecure environment. A few years back I had some interaction with a college IT…
Linked – Having multiple online identities is more normal than you think
It’s pretty simple, and despite Google and Facebook’s desire to have one person and know as much about them as possible for targeting advertising purposes, real people tend to only share segments of themselves in certain channels.
Linked – Tainted Leaks
Oh this is going to be fun…. “Last year, I wrote about the potential for doxers to alter documents before they leaked them. It was a theoretical threat when I wrote it, but now Citizen Lab has documented this technique in the wild:” I’ve looked at this sort of thing before, and it scares me….
Do You Know Why Employees Leave? Do You Know Why They Stay?
My point isn’t to toot my own horn. It’s to give you a concrete example of what a difference sitting and talking to your employees can make in terms of understanding what works for them, or doesn’t work for them in the workplace. A survey has a purpose, especially when you realize that meeting one on one with all of your employees doesn’t scale very far. If you really want to know what’s going on, though, don’t wait for someone to leave so you conduct an exit interview. A stay interview might prevent them from leaving in the first place.
And for god’s sake, conduct exit interviews too, and be willing to act on them. These people are telling you what went wrong, why wouldn’t you want to know that?
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