What I’m Sharing (weekly)

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

Microsoft Says Remote Working is Here for Good Are You Finally Thankful for Your IT Person Now? How to Stay Physically and Mentally Healthy While at Home The New Normal: How eDiscovery is Adapting to the Remote Workplace Legal Issues the Tech Sector Shouldn’t Forget During a Global Viral Outbreak COVID-19 Pushed Legal Toward Tech,…

Linked: How to Elevate Your Presence in a Virtual Meeting
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Linked: How to Elevate Your Presence in a Virtual Meeting

There’s a lot in this to be mindful of when you’re participating in a meeting, or now days if you’re doing a video webinar or broadcast as well, but this one for me is lesson number 1: “Even if you don’t need to be fully engaged in the meeting, your professional reputation can suffer if…

Linked: Facebook releases Quiet Mode so you can take a break from social media
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Linked: Facebook releases Quiet Mode so you can take a break from social media

This is interesting, and kind of goes against their own interests, so I’m suspicious, but I also think turning off FB notifications for a set time might be a good idea. “To access Quiet Mode, you go to your settings menu on Facebook and click Your Time on Facebook. Then you go to Manage your…

How Much Trust Do You Have For Employees?

How Much Trust Do You Have For Employees?

As we continue on our long, lonely, quarantine, many organizations find themselves dealing with how to manage employees who are working from their own homes instead of the office. Naturally, this brings with it some challenges, that require some managerial skill to navigate. Or, maybe not. Maybe you could just make everyone stay logged into…

Linked: what’s reasonable for managers to expect of parents working from home?
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Linked: what’s reasonable for managers to expect of parents working from home?

Echoing my own thoughts from yesterday, this response to a question about being frustrated with an employee being slower to get work done because they have a toddler at home all day, is pure gold. “In the past, it was reasonable to expect people to stay more or less productive throughout the workday. It’s not…

Linked: Cybersecurity Considerations for an Increasingly Remote Workforce
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Linked: Cybersecurity Considerations for an Increasingly Remote Workforce

First off, Jessica quoting the Art of War is great, but more importantly, this is a time when everyone is making massive adjustments to change. That makes it easy to forget that there are still hackers out there looking to take advantage. “As famously stated in Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War, “In the midst of…