Microsoft Eliminates 300 seat Requirement for Copilot
If you were out marking the occasion for Martin Luther King Day or hunkering down from the cold in the US today, you may not have noticed this announcement from Microsoft.
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Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 17, 2023
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Admins in Google Vault Can Now Export Hyperlinked Google Drive Content from Gmails
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The End of Retirement– “Want to keep your house? Support your kids? Stay alive? Never stop working.”
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Career Management Involves Both the Manager and the Employee
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Don’t Just Check the Box, Again: Authentic Approaches to Mental Health at Work in 2024
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Linked – AI and Mass Spying
Imagine, if you will, your smart TV or home assistant listening in on conversations you’ve been having about layoffs in your industry, and that data is shared with a financial institution that then decides that you’re not a good credit risk. The AI took that conversation and combined it with a ton of financial information from other people who work in your industry and made that call. Is it accurate? Probably not, but when you start grabbing data from all over the place and building these huge algorithmic models, things can get a little messy. You become less of an individual and more of a conglomeration of all the people who do things like you, and when you add in a little spying, that can lead to all sorts of disastrous consequences.
Do we want governments and corporations to have that much power? No, but as Bruce rightly points out, we haven’t done much of anything to stop them from taking it so far.
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Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 3, 2023
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Who is productive, and who isn’t? Here’s how to tell.– an interesting conversation about employee archetypes.
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Middle Managers Suffer Most From Change- – “Organizations that aren’t investing in helping their people through change are failing,”
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Networking for Better Opportunities: Land a Job By Socializing
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Is iPhone AirDrop Feature ‘NameDrop’ Dangerous, as Facebook Posts Claim?– “To be clear, no contact information is automatically shared when two devices are brought together without a user taking action.”
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AI doesn’t cause harm by itself. We should worry about the people who control it
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Beware Those Claiming Expertise with Copilot for M365
I’ve seen the same thing Loryan has seen, though. Microsoft partners and consulting companies are offering up “expertise” on Copilot that I don’t believe they have. If you’re looking for guidance to help you navigate the Copilot waters, I also recommend vetting the folks who claim to be able to do that.
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Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 26, 2023
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Navigating The Workplace: How To Manage Depression At Your Job– much of this advice assumes your workplace is interested in helping. If they aren’t, don’t be afraid to find a different one.
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Financial crises damage people’s mental health – our global review shows who is worst affected– Layoffs, poverty, medical debt, etc. are risks that aren’t solved with exercise.
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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024– Maybe using a browser created by the internet’s biggest ad seller isn’t the ideal way to go?
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Job Hopping: Navigating Toxic Workplaces– Job hopping isn’t as much of a negative as staying in some workplaces is.
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Debunking the Myth of Hard Work– “Luck plays a far more significant role in life outcomes than successful people like to admit.”
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The Good, The Bad And The Reality: The Impact Of AI On Cybersecurity
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6 Worrying Workplace Numbers — And What You Can Do About Them
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Workers want L&D job perks, bosses say they’re a waste of time
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EU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X– You would think the EU could follow its own data privacy rules.
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Want to Improve Career Development? Start With Your Managers
