Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 25, 2024
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Linked: The case for turning off your Zoom camera
Stop considering people who aren’t on camera as less engaged. This is just your bias. Your smartest employees understand the additional stress being on camera causes and take every opportunity to limit that effect for themselves. Keep people who are that self-aware.
Recently, I was doing a training session with some new employees and started off by telling them to turn their cameras off. I am fairly sure it was their favorite meeting of their week.
Think about how easy that was. I was showing them how to use a cloud tool, I wanted them focused on the screen, what I was doing and what I was saying about what I was doing. They were. I didn’t need their cameras to tell me that.
Free Learning Resources – learnfree.org
I have to thank my wife for finding this site the other night when she was Googling for some Excel tutorials. It’s done by the Goodwill Community Foundation and it not only has tutorials on tech topics like Excel, Gmail, and Internet Safety, but they also cover a range of topics involved with job searching,…
Linked: Large-scale phishing study shows who bites the bait more often
They had some interesting findings on gender (doesn’t matter) and age (young and older employees seemed more likely), but this is one that I think impacts a lot of what we do when it comes to protecting against phishing:
“An interesting finding in the ETH study is that employees who are continuously exposed to phishing eventually fall for it, as 32.1% of the study participants clicked on at least one dangerous link or attachment.”
What I’m Sharing (weekly) Sept. 13, 202
The Perfect Preservation Letter: A New Guide
Is Flexible Work the New Normal? Survey Says It Is Good For Mental Health
The coming wave of Covid-related age discrimination lawsuits
– Employers need to be vigilant in laying off older workers. “High risk for Covid” and “highly compensated” might by proxies for age discrimination.
Amid COVID-19, people under 30 may finally kill email
Will lawyers be replaced by GPT-3? Yes, and here’s when
Fake LinkedIn Accounts – What to Do and What LinkedIn is Doing
One Ethics Rule Leads to Another: Technology Competence and the Duty of Supervision
Remote Networking as a Person of Color
Burnout Of The Remote Employees And How Can They Counter It
Algorithms are Black Boxes, That is Why We Need Explainable AI
Linked – New NAMI Poll Finds Employees Reluctant to Discuss Their Mental Health at Work
Those are just the reasons why many with supportive workplaces would be reluctant to talk about mental health at work. We also know that many workplaces are not supportive at all. In the era of the current administration pushing hard against DEI policies, workplace accommodations, and the mass layoffs happening all across the economy, why would we bring attention to ourselves and our mental health? Too many employers are looking for a reason to fire employees, and a mental health struggle might be one.Â
