I’ve been saying this for a long time. If your remote, hybrid, or in-office situation isn’t working, it’s likely because your manager is the problem. Managers haven’t been taught how to lead with well-being in mind, so they fall back on old habits. Those habits can eliminate the well-being benefits of remote work, for example,…
Whether you consider it bloatware or not may depend on your plan to use AI on a mobile device, but one thing is for sure about all hardware and many services that are adding AI features: They’re getting more expensive.
Adding the power to run AI tools locally costs money. If all Pixel phones are going to do all the AI work on photos and all the iPhones are going to process ChatGPT interactions locally, that’s going to require more expensive hardware.
If all Windows PCs will come with Recall, the same thing applies. The chips that can handle these transactions are in high demand and are not cheap.
It’s a job. Even if you love your team, it’s a job. When it no longer serves your life, you can leave. When it’s overwhelming to you, you can take a break. If the rest of your team is overwhelmed because you took a day off or left shorthanded because someone left for a better job, that’s management’s problem. You didn’t create this “do more with less” strategy around hiring. They did.
Yes, those are things we should tell our family and friends. They are also 100% the things we should tell employees. What makes a difference for employees other than pay? Knowing that the work they do is appreciated and makes a difference. How will they know if you don’t tell them? How will they know that you notice their effort if you don’t tell them you notice it?
How would you react to domestic violence if you were to view it as a company security issue instead of a personal problem? There is plenty of evidence that it is a workplace issue. Employers could play a role in keeping their people safe if they took it seriously as a workplace issue.
It’s easy to walk away from a conference like this one with the impression that it’s just a matter of time. On the other hand, we must also acknowledge that the AI technology we see in front of us is just OK. It’s not world-changing, and it’s sometimes downright awful. As I’ve said before, will the huge investments ever pay off? We are all waiting to see. How long will we continue to talk about the future of AI instead of how it’s changed our world?