The fall transition to standard time is linked to an increase in crime that costs the country billions of dollars annually. Transitions into and out of daylight saving time are linked to disrupted sleep patterns, increased heart attack risk, and an uptick in fatal car accidents.
And last week, a team of researchers from the departments of psychiatry and political science at the universities of Aarhus, Copenhagen and Stanford added another formal complaint to the indictment against clock-turning: The autumn shift to standard time appears to be closely linked to a jump in depression diagnoses around this time of year.
Why do we continue with this practice? What are the actual benefits?
These results from the 2018 ABA Legal Technology Survey are not at all good, given how much information is laying around law firms these days. “Less than half of the responding firms have the following policies or plans that are important facets of a law firm’s security posture: computer acceptable use policy (41%); remote access…
Since a lot of folks are now doing this, finding the post below from Trello was helpful, and for me, this should be rule 1 for remote teams: “Give a little more information than you think is necessary. You don’t have to write a novel for every status update, but err on the side of…
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You know, when I hear companies tout the performance level of their employees, I do have to wonder what sort of expectations they are setting. There isn’t a company out there, including the one I work for, that doesn’t brag about having A+ performers. So what happens when someone makes a mistake or has a C day?
Unspoken, but hinted around, in this article, is that employees who aren’t trusted, probably also don’t trust their employers, and then this is where we end up. “People who didn’t trust their employers were three times more likely to say that they felt tense on the job, and they were four times more likely to…
