Mental Health

Mental Health

Linked – I’m here, I’m queer and I have depression – but workplace support makes all the difference
ByMike McBride May 23, 2023May 25, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The reality is that the labor force is diverse, and your employees are as well. There are also going to be a wide range of life issues that they are dealing with. Mental health is one of them, and based on the statistics, someone who works for you is dealing with some form of anxiety, depresssion or some other issue. Wouldn’t it be great, and help employee retention, if they were supported at work?

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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) May 21, 2023
ByMike McBride May 21, 2023September 3, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block How to Talk to Your Team About Their Career Development Anyone Can Code! – Light Your Fire for Coding – Online workshop on getting started with app development for women and genderqueer people. What Do Hackers Actually Do With Your Data? Mental Health…

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Mental Health

Linked – For Your Mental Health, Vacation is Not Always the Right Answer
ByMike McBride May 20, 2023May 20, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you feel burned out a break can help. If you’re feeling stressed some exercise or yoga can help too. But if that’s all the workplace can offer, it’s not going to solve the problem. Taking a long weekend only to return to a job that will now require you to do your normal 45-50 hours of work in 3 days instead of 5 is not a fix. Working all weekend so you can take a three-day weekend next week, is not a sustainable solution.

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Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023
ByMike McBride May 14, 2023May 13, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute
- Ten Great Books on How to Learn Better
- Dialogue Over Surveys
- This Is How To Overcome Burnout: 6 Secrets From Research
- A New Low For Hackers – Threatening to Disclose Patient Medical, Mental Health Records as Ransom for Payment– Makes sense. If the organization won’t pay the ransom maybe the patients have more incentive to do so. I expect this to start targeting gender-affirming and women’s health in the US soon, right?
- The Elephant in Your Office Has a Mental Illness
- The decline of time-based law firms– “Lawyers’ billed hours constitute the inventory of law firms and the foundation of their profits. Legally trained AI will decimate those hours. What happens then?”
- Shadow IT & SaaS remain major security threats!
- Lonely at the Top: How to Help New People Managers Step Into Leadership
- Moving eDiscovery U-P-S-T-R-E-A-M
- Companies Are Hoarding Personal Data About You. Here’s How to Get Them to Delete It.
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Security | SocialNetworking

Congressional Think Tank Sees the Problem with Age Verification – Members Not so Much
ByMike McBride May 6, 2023May 5, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Proving your identity and your age eliminates the ability for anyone to remain anonymous. You might argue that is a good thing, but I’ll take the opposite side. There are plenty of reasons for someone to remain anonymous online, and why we’d be worse off eliminating that. Whistleblowers, political dissidents of fascist governments, victims of childhood and spousal abuse, people dealing with mental health issues, women, the LGBTQ community, and many others have legitimate reasons to fear being identified. Do we want to eliminate them all from the public space?

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Career | Training

DE&I is More Than Race and Gender – Neurodiversity in the Workplace
ByMike McBride May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

We have so many companies complaining about finding talent, and we also have a massively underemployed group who could be great at these jobs with some small accommodations. I’m no data scientist, but this seems like an opportunity. The article above lists some considerations that could make a huge difference and help you find and retain talented people who need someone to understand that their brains work differently.

This is what inclusion looks like too.

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