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Is The Internet The Productivity Drain We Think It Is?

According to recent research, not really. It isn’t any more of a drain on productivity than the same old things we did before the Internet. That’s not the only surprising thing you may find in this article: The Internet Isn’t What’s Distracting Us The Most At Work On what we waste the most time doing…

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Linked – If you answer emails after work, you should be getting unlimited vacation

“When Netflix still had your typical vacation policy, employees asked an important question: “We don’t track the time we spend working outside of the office—like e-mails we answer from home and the work we do at night and on weekends—so why do we track the time we spend off the job?” Management listened. They couldn’t…

Just Check Your Credit Card Transactions All of the Time

Just Check Your Credit Card Transactions All of the Time

Image by frankieleon With the news this week that the Hyatt breach may have included up to 250 hotels, I think it’s time to just admit that your credit card info is probably out there somewhere. If it wasn’t grabbed from this hotel chain, at another, or at an online store, or through some other…

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Linked – Is public Wi-Fi as safe as you think?

“According to research 77 percent of people said that they did not feel that public Wi-Fi was any less secure than their own personal internet connection, 75 percent also said that they wouldn’t curb their activity on public Wi-Fi and they weren’t conscious of anything they may need to avoid doing whilst using it, showing…

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Linked – Feds Confirm Cardinals Accessed Astros System With Old Password, File Unauthorized Access Charges

“Also appearing to be correct were reports that the “hacking” that took place in this instance was of the less hack-y variety and more of the let’s-try-the-guy’s-old-password-y. “ Yeah so, let’s learn a lesson here people. Don’t start a new job with the same password you used at your old job, OK? Yes, using the…