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Linked: Talking About Mental Health with Your Employees — Without Overstepping
Or as I would put it, if you don’t even know my wife’s name, or can’t remember that I don’t have kids, maybe start there before you ask about my mental health, cool?
Suddenly asking someone you barely know anything about outside of work about mental health, will be a shock, and quite frankly, will seem threatening more than it seems supportive. As in, “why is my boss asking about this? Does she think I’m not doing my job, am I about to get fired?”
I’m assuming that’s not how you want them to feel, so be thoughtful about how you bring these subjects up. By all means, work up to it, and work up toward helping your reports feel comfortable, but do it in a way that actually works, not in a way that makes them feel less safe.
Linked – Instagram Debuts AI System to Filter Hate Speech, Spam
As with most stories about artificial intelligence, this is the key: “The primary difference between Facebook’s and Instagram’s filtering tools appear to be that Instagram’s AI system was specifically “trained” with the spam and offensive comments that specifically appeared on its own service, the Wired report shows. Instagram had to hire contractors to comb through…
Worth Reading – Productivity and Flexibility Do Not Have to Be Mutually Exclusive
Why would we trust the same leaders who never overcame proximity bias when it came to people who spent more time in the office versus those who got work done to figure out how much flexibility employees should have? They’re not good at any of this.
