Linked – Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
This should not surprise anyone.
I can think of a few reasons why this should not have surprised anyone at Dell.
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Dell Is Going Through a Layoff That You Won’t Notice
If you’ve heard the term “quiet firing” recently, this is what it means. It is not directly cutting head count but making it likely that some percentage of employees will leave due to your decisions.
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Even Younger Employees Come In With a Skills Gap
One of the things I have talked about for years regarding college education is that, by its nature, it will always be behind. Think about it. You start a four-year degree program to learn technology skills. By the time you complete the four years and maybe even an advanced degree, everything you’ve learned is outdated. Technology changes that quickly. You enter a workplace using the next versions of everything you know. A version you don’t know much about because it’s so new that college programs haven’t even started incorporating it yet.
And by “so new,” I’m saying it’s been updated within the last few years.
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Linked – Why Your Employees Are Still Your Greatest Security Risk
This doesn’t seem to be getting better. “According to this year’s Dell End-User Security Survey, a staggering 72 percent of employees are willing to share sensitive, confidential or regulated company information inappropriately. Those surveyed were not malicious but rather were just trying to do their jobs the best they could.” Clearly, we aren’t doing something right,…
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Maybe Apple Was Right All Along?
Granted, more data needs to be collected, but if early indications are correct from Microsoft’s study of over a million PC failures it would appear that Apple’s strategy of not letting anyone build their own box, tweak their own hardware, and limiting who can actually build the hardware, id definitely the reason why it is…
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Little Mac Help?
Can anyone point me to a tutorial on using a projector with a Macbook Pro? I’ve done it a couple of times, and have managed to get what I need each time, but I suspect it’s been a lot more aggravating than it should have been. I haven’t found anything like the Fn-F8 toggle on…
