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Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 12, 2023

ByMike McBride February 12, 2023February 11, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Google Layoffs Show You Must Look Out For Yourself
Don’t Just Memorize Your Next Presentation — Know It Cold– I often hear people talking about not practicing their presentation for fear of sounding “too rehearsed.” The fix is to know it even better.
Rise of Collaboration Apps Could Make Data Custodians Irrelevant– I agree data is no longer about the person who created it.
Practical Applications of eDiscovery Rules
Social Media Security: What You Need to Know
5 Ways To Support Your Mental Health After Being Laid Off
You Need to Address Skills Gaps Before It’s Too Late. Here’s How.
Tech’s Elite Hates Labor
How To Deal With Unemployment Depression
Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity: Why Companies Must Build Safety Into Tech Products – As Americans have integrated technology into nearly every facet of their lives, they have unwittingly come to accept that it is normal for new software and devices to be indefensible by design.

Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 29, 2023

ByMike McBride January 29, 2023January 28, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Research Is In: Work Stress Is Not “Just in Your Head”
Layoff Brain
Is Your Training Contributing to Quiet and Quick Quitting?
Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai– Ed makes the point that Big Tech companies don’t need to have these layoffs, but if they do, then the CEO is to blame and should be held accountable.
You can’t ignore mental health at work.
Great Leaders Are Facilitators: They Know How to Design Collaboration and Innovation
15 research-backed benefits of employee training
Pennsylvania on the ethics of using smartphones for client data storage
The Importance of Data that Doesn’t Exist – Part Two (Missing Data Sources)
One mentor isn’t enough. Here’s how I built a network of mentors
How technology supports the pursuit of justice by enabling small law firms to work at scale
Leading by Example: The Importance of Role Modeling for Lawyer Mental Health

Career

One More on the Google Layoffs

ByMike McBride January 28, 2023January 28, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This further emphasizes that living your life for work is not worth it in the end. How many similar stories are out there? How many people were mid-project or working late evenings on important deals and were let go the next day?

How important was that work, and the contribution they made to work? How important could it have been? Look at how it was considered so easily replaceabl

Career

Do Layoffs Fix Anything, or Do We Have Them Because Everyone Else is Doing It?

ByMike McBride January 23, 2023January 24, 2023 Reading Time: 6 minutes

Take a hard look at what leaders are saying about layoffs and what they focus on. Do they seem personally hurt and concerned for the people leaving? Do they have honest and transparent explanations for why they made these decisions? Or do they repeat platitudes about “recession,” costs, and other bits of financial jargon to explain away something so painful to the same people they were calling part of the family a week ago?

Families don’t cut the number of kids when money gets tight. Your workplace is not a family and does not deserve a level of commitment that matches your family or your health. Layoffs are sometimes necessary, but mostly just a nice tool to perk up the value of a company for a specific part of the structure or to make up for mistakes made by the same people making these job cuts.

That’s business. I’ve argued for years that business has a vested interest in employee well-being. Caring about your people is how you get their best. I hope leaders will continue to grow in that regard, but as an individual employee, you need to care about yourself more. If your job isn’t meeting your career needs in terms of money, development, or work-life balance, find a better one. You owe them nothing. They pay you to do a job until they decide not to. You owe them that work.

That is all.