Technology Is Pushing Humanity Off A Cliff
– interesting podcast series on the “night terrors” of cybersecurity experts.
What is data poisoning? Attacks that corrupt machine learning models
Ransomware: The internet’s biggest security crisis is getting worse. We need a way out
Robotic process automation takes aim at ordinary office jobs
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I was listening to the latest Manager Tools podcast at lunch today. They’ve talked about the importance of writing thank you notes before, but today’s podcast was entirely on that topic. In true Manager Tools style, not only did I learn how important the act of sending thank you notes is, both professionally and personally,…
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I agree, I have noticed that people do seem to be more aware of when someone else is trying to talk and how they might have interrupted or stepped over them. We absolutely should make time for just socializing. One of my biggest pet peeves about the argument that remote workers just don’t connect as a team and collaborate is that it is possible if you simply intentionally create the space for it. We should trust our employees enough to multitask during the parts of meetings that aren’t really relevant to them, and by all means, we should consider having fewer meetings.
Now, the shortage of people leading to overworked stressed, and burned-out workers is the headline, but if you look at the reasons given in the article below, it’s not “just” that. It’s where that situation leads. When you’re short-staffed and constantly putting out fires, you don’t really take the time to think about showing appreciation, helping employees grow their skills and careers, or creating a diverse workplace.
Yet those are the exact things that employees are looking for elsewhere.
Appreciating and growing your employees is not something that is “nice to have” anymore. It’s a requirement.
Kevin and Scott are having a discussion about employee’s doing some personal surfing at work. As an IT person, let me add my 2 cents to the discussion. This is what I tell new employees. I do monitor what you’re doing and while I don’t have time to watch and track every website you visit,…
Yesterday I spent probably two hours discussing a change that we’re doing at work. In layman’s terms, one of our employees is moving into a newly created position with another entity that is a “partner” of ours. He’ll work for them, but still be our employee, work out of our offices and have an email…