Linked – Why You Should Stop Working on the Weekends – for Your Health
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Linked – Why You Should Stop Working on the Weekends – for Your Health

Go ahead and finish up your work week today, and go have a weekend, cool?  All that extra work is not good for you. “Some employees may think logging weekend hours is good for their career, but plenty of research suggests it’s bad for their health. One study by Marianna Virtanen of the Finnish Institute…

Linked – Simply viewing this malicious ad will infect your computer with ransomware

Linked – Simply viewing this malicious ad will infect your computer with ransomware

And this is why we stay up to date on security updates, and also a big part of why I use and ad blocker. A new malvertising campaign from the AdGholas hacker group infects victims with ransomware, even if the victim takes no action other than viewing a particular advertisement. The revelation came as part…

Linked – ProtonMail makes its free VPN service available to everyone
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Linked – ProtonMail makes its free VPN service available to everyone

“ProtonMail, the encrypted email created by CERN and MIT scientists, has released a new product in response to the administration’s roll back of Obama-era internet privacy rules. Starting today, you can try out the company’s VPN service, which was in beta testing by 10,000 initial users for a year, by getting it from the official…

Linked – Why Women Aren’t Networking And 7 Ways To Fix It

Linked – Why Women Aren’t Networking And 7 Ways To Fix It

Well this is just silly – When I was in my twenties, two things would happen when my then-boyfriend and I went to dinner with another couple. The men would talk about their careers at length and often agree to follow up on something work related. They’d exchange business cards within minutes of being introduced….

Linked – You Cannot Learn What You Think You Already Know
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Linked – You Cannot Learn What You Think You Already Know

The implications for this truth are quite far-reaching, no? Whether we want to talk about in a training environment or have a discussion about lawyers and eDiscovery technology, there’s a lot to think about here. I have always said, in fact I just said it a couple of days ago, that I’d much rather have…

We Really Aren’t Good at this Work Life Balance

We Really Aren’t Good at this Work Life Balance

I mean when surveys show that Americans, who have always been kind of lame about taking vacations, are getting even worse, it’s pretty clear the idea of work-life balance is just not getting any traction. According to Generali Global Assistance’s annual “summer holiday plans” survey, the average American vacation length will be about 1.4 weeks, down…