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Linked: 8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health
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…
Notes on the NordVPN Hack
If you haven’t seen the news yet, you can read about what happened, and how it happened, here. I want to, however, take a moment to share a couple of things that stick out to me: The most obvious thing here is that all of us who use VPN to avoid being snooped on…
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Linked: A Leader’s List Of Mental Health Concerns At Work
There are a number of things in the article below to consider, but this is definitely the most timely:
“A profound lesson from the pandemic supports this theory, when so many people were suddenly relocated to home offices. We discovered (or rediscovered) that productivity rises when we leave people alone for hours at a time to work without interruption. Those gains are lost when we revert to interruptions, expecting employees to respond nearly immediately to endless incoming emails and messages.”
Quick Thought – Work Culture is So Bad that We Use the Word Quitting to Describe Setting Boundaries.
They are setting boundaries. They are cutting back on their commitment and engagement with work because they see that work is not the most important thing in life. They make decisions based on their mental health instead of the company’s bottom line.
No one is leaving their job in this situation. No one is not doing their work. They are simply not taking on extra work and commitments that they aren’t getting paid for.
Our society’s relationship with work is so skewed that the word we have chosen for this is “quitting”. There’s something profoundly sad about that.
Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 21, 2022
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Businesses Found to Neglect Cybersecurity Until it is Too Late
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Is Your Litigation Opponent Entitled to Know the Identity of Your E-Discovery Consultant?
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Early Case Assessment in Ediscovery: Start Your Case Off Right
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Understanding Open Source Intelligence is Critical to Cybersecurity
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This phishing attack uses a countdown clock to panic you into handing over passwords
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The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
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