Breaking the Taboo – What I Learned from Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace
Why mental health at the workplace should be the priority in 2021 and beyond
Ten Things Law Firms Can Do to Prevent Being Blown Up by Ransomware
Building a Network: 4 Ways to Add Value By Helping Others Succeed
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This is bad, bad news…. “A Naked Security story reports that Checkpoint analyzed Android devices owned by two large companies, and found malware infections in 36 of them. The users hadn’t downloaded the malware – they arrived with the devices, meaning that they were installed somewhere along the supply chain. The malware in the…
This opinion might be a bit overly broad, and is clearly based on anecdotal evidence, but there’s no question this goes on in many workplaces. The philosophy of today’s corporations is simple: get all you can out of employees and pay them as little as possible. If possible hire them on a freelance basis so…
The new way of work – “It takes a different set of leadership and management skills to create the conditions for effective distributed work. But it’s incredibly powerful when you get it right.”
Google Rolls Out Passkey Support, Signaling Major Shift in Online Security
Lawyers and Cybersecurity: Security By Obscurity Is Not Security
Chatbot Hallucinations Require Bloggers to Make Smart Use of AI
Less Data #6: Explosion of new state consumer privacy laws compels deletion of unnecessary data
When Bossware and Employee Data Privacy Laws Meet– Interesting look at how these two things are going to run head-first into each other.
How to Convince Your Campus That MFA Is Worth the Effort– The same arguments can be made in the workplace and with your family and friends.
Crafting Compelling Career Stories: Be Memorable In Your Interviews
The 100+ People You Should Follow on LinkedIn– for job search advice and career information.
“Would you rather make $100k at a boring, meaningless job, or $50k doing something meaningful?”
Apparently, the correct answer to this question is the latter, according to most of my LinkedIn connections.
I disagree. I think people who take $50k might just be suckers.
You are getting paid half of what you could be making elsewhere, which means your employer is simply underpaying you, by taking advantage of your need to find meaning in your work.
This makes sense, we spend a lot of time at work, and once we add in a commute, it’s probably closer to 50% or more: ““People who are employed full-time outside the home spend approximately 33 percent of their waking hours at their workplace,” writes Jennifer Veitch, Ph.D., in a 2011 report on workplace design…
Seems like just a few days ago that I was in front of a room, in Vegas, telling people about the importance of using rules, and any other sort of filtering mechanism, to get stuff out of your inbox so that the high-priority items are more easily located. Imagine my surprise when I saw that…
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