Mental Health

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 21, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    UniCourt Influencer Q&A with Amanda Brown of Lagniappe Law Lab

    More bosses are using software to monitor remote workers. Not everyone is happy about it

    Corporate E-Discovery Insourcing Runs Straight Into Talent, and Culture, Walls

    Filter Out Annoying Facebook Posts With These Tools

    – Learn some tools to take control over your own newsfeed.

    3 Insights Following the Water Facility Attack

    A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy

    Legal Tech Innovation: The Future is Bright

    Redundancy: Surviving the mental health impact of losing your job

    Redaction – good news from Relativity but less good for some others

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 14, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    How Changes to E-discovery Can Help You in Practice

    Building a culture of learning at work

    Why Laura Prael’s business LEP Digital will always run four days a week

    – Interesting thoughts on the benefits of working fewer hours.

    Court Enforces Strict Sanctions for Failing to Be Competent in ESI Obligations

    Working Moms Are Struggling. Here’s What Would Help.

    It’s Safer Internet Day—Here Are 4 Services to Keep You Safer Online

    How Section 230 Makes My Life Better (A Celebration of Its 25 Year Anniversary)

    Four ways to boost mental health conversations at work

    6 Tips for Professionals with High-Functioning Anxiety

    10 Top Technology Tools for the Small Firm Lawyer

    Employees should design their own work time, P&G HR Director says

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 7 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    For U.S. businesses, less data is more than ever

    The Future Of Mental Health And Career Support For Remote Workers

    No, Getting Rid Of Anonymity Will Not Fix Social Media; It Will Cause More Problems

    I cannot stress this enough, getting rid of anonymity does nothing to stop harassing (look at Facebook?), and only hurts already marginalized people.

    eDiscovery Tug of War: A Breakdown of the In-House vs. ALSP Debate, Part Two

    Defensible Deletion: The Proof Is in the Planning

    Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 for Legal

    How to ensure mental wellbeing policies genuinely work for employees

    The ethical quandary of being a social media manager in 2021

    Strong stuff from Tim Cook

    “What are the consequences of seeing thousands of users joining extremist groups and then perpetuating an algorithm that recommends even more?”

    New ESI Sanctions Order Offers E-Discovery 101 Course for Lawyers

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 31 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Breaking the Taboo – What I Learned from Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace

    Why mental health at the workplace should be the priority in 2021 and beyond

    The Admissibility of Social Media Evidence of Insurrection

    The Easy Way to Backup Gmail

    Dozens Of Human Rights Group Tell Congress: Do Not Gut Section 230 On Our Behalf; It’ll Do More Harm Than Good

    The curious case of pivot table caches in eDiscovery

    What’s Wrong with the Way We Work

    Ten Things Law Firms Can Do to Prevent Being Blown Up by Ransomware

    Five Great Reads on eDiscovery for January 2021

    Why the five-day workweek is outdated for working from home

    Building a Network: 4 Ways to Add Value By Helping Others Succeed

    How to Support an Employee with a Chronic Health Condition

  • What Do People Need to be Successful Working From Home? – It Varies

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Why it’s almost as if we should ask individuals what would help them, and within reason, provide that. After all, even within each age group, parents might prioritize something different than single employees, or those sharing an internet connection and space with a spouse or roommates also working from home might prioritize something else. Some may want to adhere to strict 9-5 hours so that they can spend the rest of their time on childcare or side-businesses, while others may value the ability to take a couple of hours during the day for schoolwork and then pick up work again in the evening.

    We would do well to listen to what people need, talk about what we expect, and also understand what we are doing with our own actions.

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    Linked: How to switch off and relax after work: 13 easy ideas

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I’ve seen these, and I’m sure you have as well.

    “As many a viral tweet has rightly pointed out, it’s more like we’re living at work than working from home – and the pressure of that can have real implications for our mental health.

    With this in mind then, prioritising a work/life balance – and actually sticking to it – is one of the best things we can do to look after our wellbeing at this time. And one of the main parts of achieving that work/life balance is being able to switch off from work in the first place. “