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Linked – Employees Use 4-Day Work Week to Catch up on Sleep: Study

ByMike McBride October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

This is interesting:

Sleep deprivation drastically fell for those in the study who changed to a four-day week. The percentage of those who had been getting less than seven hours of sleep a night decreased from 42.6% to 14.5%.

We know that people who are sleep deprived are cognitively impaired, make more mistakes, and just generally run the risk of some pretty serious health implications. Could a 4-day work week get you more “quality” hours of work from someone who isn’t sleep-deprived than you’re currently getting in the 5-day week?

It’s something to think about.

https://www.businessinsider.com/employees-use-four-day-work-week-catch-up-sleep-study-2022-10

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Linked: Helping Your People Managers Manage a Hybrid Workplace
ByMike McBride May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

The three challenges in this quote exist in every type of work environment. In-office, hybrid, or totally remote, every team needs clarity, communication, and connection.

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Linked: Remote Work Helped Meta Achieve Diversity Goals Years Ahead of Schedule
ByMike McBride August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Something I’ve been thinking a lot about in the industries I have worked in has been this idea that remote and asynchronous work is something that makes it less likely that the only people we can hire are the ones who are both willing and able to dedicate their entire days to be in the office and also willing to jump in and do more work at any hour of the day and weekends. That eliminates a whole bunch of people from even applying, especially women with kids, neurodiverse and disabled candidates, and underrepresented groups without a large presence in the area where your office happens to be. (When you start a company in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Austin, or some other “hot” area, your candidate pool is limited to the people who live there now or are willing to move immediately.)

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Tackling Depression for IT Workers
ByMike McBride February 9, 2015March 18, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

I know, I’ve written before about depression, and the risks associated with being in a high-demand, always connected, career like IT. Last week, I spotted another article on this topic that I thought really had some good advice on how to deal with the demands on our profession, yet still keep from falling into depression….

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I Love Being Right, A Wake Up Call for Management
ByMike McBride December 29, 2010December 29, 2010 Reading Time: 2 minutes

As written by me, Jan 18, 2010: I’ve been thinking, for quite awhile now, that when the job market bounces back and people start to feel a bit more secure in looking around, there’s going to be a mass exodus, especially from the legal industry. Also, on April 26, 2010: It seems like everywhere I…

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Linked: 4 Great Ways To Grow Your Career Even When You Work Remote
ByMike McBride May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Ask yourself a simple question, if the best way to grow your own career in a remote environment is to intentionally identify the culture and then deliberately try to use your time to network internally, learn new skills, etc. why would we, as leaders, not do what we can to make that easier? Why put all the burden on a new hire to learn the ropes and find the best people to connect with or the best places to learn when that is information that we have and can share with them?

What intentionality can we include as part of bringing in new people, or connecting the people and knowledge that already exists within the team?

Leaving it up to chance is not the way to go. It was never really the best way to go but in an office, it might have been a little harder to notice. Everything must be intentionally created with remote teams—communication, connection, knowledge-sharing, etc.

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Linked – This Is How To Stop Checking Your Phone: 5 Secrets From Research
ByMike McBride March 8, 2017March 7, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

What the literal hell? In reality, 70 percent of office emails are read within six seconds of arriving. This is a problem, but it’s not just a problem of phone addiction, it’s also a problem of management. How many people have been told to focus on a project and not allow email to be a…

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