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Linked – Mental Health At Work: How To Dodge OOO Anxiety
ByMike McBride November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

More importantly, consider what you communicate in your actions when someone does take PTO. Does everyone on the team email them while they are out so they can get a response as soon as they are back? Do you cram in a bunch of meetings or work they need to do before leaving?

Do you think this helps them feel less stressed?

It’s much more likely that they’ll take PTO but not get any benefits from being away from work. That’s missing the point entirely.

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Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 6 2022
ByMike McBride November 6, 2022November 5, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute
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- Legal departments continue to face an increased workload, budgetary pressures, and slow technology adoption
- Concern for cybersecurity workforce mental health is rising
- How To Prioritize Employees’ Mental Health On Remote Teams
- How Microsoft works to grow the next generation of cyber defenders – “To meet the current and future challenges, the defender community needs to be as diverse as the attackers we face. “
- Scary Stories about our Wicked Problems (Legal Nerd Halloween)
- Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery for October 2022
- Quiet quitting: Workers aren’t quitting at all. Why are we calling it that? – “The whole narrative of “quiet quitting”—that doing only the basics of your job and nothing more is somehow akin to resigning—is the kind of thinking that lets employers take advantage of employees in the first place.”
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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 30, 2022
ByMike McBride October 30, 2022October 29, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute
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Career | LawFirms

Is Your Organization “Well-being Washing”?
ByMike McBride October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve heard of companies “green-washing” talking a good game about their work on climate change while also continuing to be a large contributor to it, but in the area of wellbeing, this was a new one. Except, it isn’t a new idea. This study asked employees at UK companies if the public statements about mental health and employee support match what is happening within the company itself. Many said that the public supportiveness did not match the internal work culture. That’s not anything new. I think we have all worked somewhere or have heard plenty of stories about workplaces where the public face of the company or even the internal HR face talks quite a lot about how much they focus on employee wellness but apparently, no one told the middle managers about it.

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Linked – Women leaders are leaving companies at highest rate ever
ByMike McBride October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

The disappointing thing is that it’s primarily women walking away from these companies. I think everyone should. If your organization ran successfully with flexible work and a better focus on wellness and mental health initiatives, and now they want to go back to 2019, they are not well-run.

There is no reason to think those organizations will be flexible and nimble enough to navigate the future. Why stay?

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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 23 2022
ByMike McBride October 23, 2022October 22, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute
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