Linked – Promotion? No Thanks!
I wonder how many survey responders watch their managers struggle and/or fail because they weren’t prepared for management. Why would we be surprised that so many are happy not to bring that upon themselves?
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Linked – Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
We can’t trust Google. It’s been a long time since they tried to live up to the original mantra of “Don’t be evil.” A LONG time.
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Linked – The Making of a Myth: Big Tech, Billionaires, and the Wild West
When Big Tech bros talk about being the cowboys of the modern age, the myth is what they want you to believe. They want us to believe that they are so brilliant and creative that they succeed without assistance and will solve any problem without needing oversight or regulation. They’ll forget to mention that the Internet they are building on only exists because of government programs or that many of them have gotten plenty of handouts from government and private equity. They will also not like to be reminded of the many ways they have overstepped and done real harm.
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Australia Close to Becoming the Next to Recognize a “Right to Disconnect”
Will it benefit employee’s mental health? Based on what we’ve seen in other countries, it’s undetermined. The language is often vague, and there are exceptions for emergencies, which there should be. But that opens up loopholes in who gets to define “emergency.” (I have worked with lawyers for years; their definition of emergency might be anything that prevents them from billing time right this very second.)
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