Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 7, 2025
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Linked: How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health
They also point out that whether being lonely causes that change or whether that DNA change makes someone more likely to feel lonely is unclear. What is clear, though, is that helping someone feel less lonely is a worthwhile goal. Helping someone feel like they are part of a community and have something to offer that community helps them. It’s one of the keys to suicide prevention too.
If work gets in the way of this happening, if abusive relationships or stigma get in the way, it can have fatal consequences.
As we consider what the future of our workplaces should be, we’d do well to remember that our people have lives outside of work and are better off when they can enjoy the people in their lives outside of work.
Linked: Everyone is burned out. That’s becoming a security nightmare
OK fine, my near-weekly encouragement to see your employees as human beings first, and look out for them as human beings haven’t convinced you that burnout is a problem for your business. How about the fact that tired, burned-out employees eventually just check out and create a security nightmare?
Linked – Fin7: The Inner Workings of a Billion-Dollar Hacking Group
This is a fascinating look at a pretty complex and coordinated hacking group, Fin7. They used a lot of the same tools that companies use for project management and remote collaboration, and they specifically targeted the types of employees who would be likely to expect emails from strangers, like this one: “On or around March…
Linked – Here’s how to celebrate World Mental Health Day 2024
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.
That’s why having a workplace that accounts for those impacts on employees’ lives is so important.
Shared Links (weekly) Mar. 23, 2025
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