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Linked: When Workplace Mindfulness Training Is Worse Than Nothing
We’ve seen the memes. The ones about the law firm offering a lunch hour yoga class to overworked, stressed, associates who haven’t had time to even take a lunch break in months. Or the “reward” for months of 70-80 hour work weeks is free pizza. It just makes people angry because it’s a token that does nothing to actually recognize the work involved, or correct the problems that created this mess to start with.
Workplace stress, anxiety, and other mental health issues are not just something a little mindfulness can fix. Workers are waking up to the fact that it’s the company culture that is contributing to this. Offering a way for employees to help “fix” themselves might seem like a nice thing, and in many ways it is, but doing it while not making any effort to recognize the contributions managers and corporate culture make to the problem, along with a commitment to make changes, is the very definition of “too little”.
Legaltech is a Small World, There’s No Reason to Be Rude Ever
We’ve recently been going through some vendor vetting at work, which requires a lot of time meeting a lot of people and listening to a lot of things. The one thing that has struck me over and over again is how often people in the room at these meetings either already know one another from…
With Social Media Companies Distancing Themselves from News, It’s Time For You to Learn About RSS
In the interest of helping.
Check out this post with a tutorial on using Feedly. Or some of these other posts about RSS Readers.
Check out a newsletter service like Substack. – here’s my newsletter as an example.
Check out a Fediverse-based social network like Mastodon. No big companies, no data tracking for ad tech, just people and a small, but growing, number of journalists, sharing stuff. (Here’s my Mastodon profile, feel free to create an account and follow me.)
