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Shared Links (weekly) July 25, 2021

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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The main concern for eDiscovery is what email communication is no longer available, but I’d suggest a secondary concern, whether the recipient grabbed a screen capture or saved it some other way before it expired, and how we would locate those. Still, it’s not like we don’t already have concerns with people deleting emails or…

Linked: 8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health
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Linked: 8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health

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I think the article is helpful, but this one is the one that I suspect many mangers struggle with. “Model healthy behaviors. Don’t just say you support mental health. Model it so that your team members feel they can prioritize self-care and set boundaries. More often than not, managers are so focused on their team’s…

We Really Aren’t Good at this Work Life Balance

We Really Aren’t Good at this Work Life Balance

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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…

Linked: 5 Simple Ways to Do More for Your Employees’ Mental Health This Week
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Linked: 5 Simple Ways to Do More for Your Employees’ Mental Health This Week

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

The reason I wanted to focus on this is that it can also be very easy to underestimate how much time people are spending on their work when the work is being done remotely, or in a hybrid situation. Even in the legal or consulting worlds where many of us are billing our time, or at least tracking time worked on projects, it’s not telling you the whole story. There is a lot of time spent on miscellaneous tasks that are getting lost in whatever tool you’re using to track the amount of time worked.

It’s the 15 minutes I logged in to check my schedule before accepting a handful of meeting requests before heading to bed. The time spent clearing out the inbox over my first cup of coffee, or answering questions for a newer coworker, it’s all very likely to not show up in the “official” time because it happens, and then we forget about it.

Do you know how much time your people work without considering it time worth tracking? Do you know how much those little interruptions add to the overall stress levels?

Trust is Easily Broken

Trust is Easily Broken

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Consider the message this sends to employees. This decision was made at a level above the person who is left to explain it to you. No one from that level wants to explain it or answer your questions. That’s not a trustworthy organization. That’s a leader hiding from people being impacted by their decisions.

That’s not a leader I’d want to work for. Some might even argue that they aren’t a leader at all.

When you lose that trust, you’ll lose the retention battle.

Linked: ‘Don’t Label Clients as the Problem’: General Counsel Respond to Claims They Are at Fault for Mental Health Crisis
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Linked: ‘Don’t Label Clients as the Problem’: General Counsel Respond to Claims They Are at Fault for Mental Health Crisis

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

There is clearly a mental health issue in the legal industry, but who is really to blame? That’s not so clear and clients aren’t taking the blame laying down – “The response follows the most recent piece in Law.com’s “Minds Over Matters” yearlong series: an article titled “Constantly on Call” that states that “client demands…

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