Shared Links (weekly) May 5, 2024
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Whether you purchase an LMS or make some other kind of training resource available to your employees, the fact of the matter is that it is expensive to ignore this issue. Your people likely have skill gaps that hinder their work. They want to fill in those gaps through education and grow with your organization, and if you don’t provide that someone else will.
This is some interesting stuff to think about: The students, part of a university honors class this semester called When Machines Decide: The Promise and Peril of Living in a Data-Driven Society, were tasked with creating a mobile app that teaches the public how a machine-learning algorithm could develop certain prejudices. “It was created to…
The Impact Of Layoffs: Tech Workers’ Mental Health And Tips To Navigate
Young Workers Don’t Want to Become Managers — and This Study Uncovers the Reason Why.
How to Use LinkedIn Effectively During Your Job Search (From the pros)
Are you feeling lonely? You’re not alone—strategies for addressing loneliness epidemic at work.– And no, everyone returning to office isn’t necessarily the answer here. Plenty of people are lonely in the office too.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: A Basic Primer to Keep Your Data & Information Safe
I’m sure there are some CEOs out there who read that and think we’re supposed to be drained and used up. That just shows how dedicated we are to our work. That ignores the fact that work is only part of our lives. They ignore the damage that does to society when we have adults who are uninvolved with their kids’ lives, disconnected from their community, uninformed about what is happening in the world, and lacking many meaningful friendships because work requires them to have nothing left to give to those endeavors.Â
That’s why having a workplace that accounts for those impacts on employees’ lives is so important.Â
As I mentioned yesterday, the article about how college admission folks do, in fact, check online profiles of potential students, there was another thought that occurred to me. Us older folks like to read something like that, and think that yes, these kids today with their selfies and risque photos, should really pay more attention…
Or, Free at last, free at last, everything over there is NLMP. (No longer my problem!) Yes, it’s true. Yesterday, 6 months after leaving the job, I finally turned in my keys to the building and said sayonara to my former employer. I feel liberated, like a giant weight has been lifted. Looking back it’s…