Mental Health

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Sept. 13, 202

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    The Perfect Preservation Letter: A New Guide

    Is Flexible Work the New Normal? Survey Says It Is Good For Mental Health

    The coming wave of Covid-related age discrimination lawsuits

    – Employers need to be vigilant in laying off older workers. “High risk for Covid” and “highly compensated” might by proxies for age discrimination.

    Amid COVID-19, people under 30 may finally kill email

    Will lawyers be replaced by GPT-3? Yes, and here’s when

    Fake LinkedIn Accounts – What to Do and What LinkedIn is Doing

    One Ethics Rule Leads to Another: Technology Competence and the Duty of Supervision

    Remote Networking as a Person of Color

    Burnout Of The Remote Employees And How Can They Counter It

    Algorithms are Black Boxes, That is Why We Need Explainable AI

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Sept. 6, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    There’s No Better Time To Future-Proof Your Firm Than Now

    6 steps to creating a workplace mental health & well-being strategy

    How To Cope At Work When Anxiety And Depression Take Over

    Why Your Staff Are Your Cybersecurity Weak Link

    Worried About the Election? Microsoft Launches Deepfake Detection Tool

    Working from Home and Boundaries in 2020

    4 Ways To Destigmatize Mental Health At Work

    At ILTA>ON, Reconnecting Community Through A Virtual Conference

    Why the Connection Between Biometric Data and eDiscovery Will Continue to Grow

    Business comment: Tackling the stigma of workplace mental health

    8 skills for career success in the digital age

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    Linked: The Lonely, Pixelated Hell of Networking During the Pandemic

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Most of these sound awful, and the ones that are “not so voluntary” attempts to make sure workers are engaged sound even worse.

    Actually, I suspect they are doing a lot more harm to engagement than good.

    There are ways to network during this time. They’re different, they’re a little more work, and they take some getting used to. But they don’t need to be ridiculous, and they definitely don’t need to be forced.

    In fact, this is a great time to simply send someone a note asking for 15-30 minutes of their time. Most of us are pretty open to doing exactly that with coworkers or peers in our industry. I’d be happy to find some time to have a conversation with you about my industry, or mental health, or blogging. Or even to just have a coffee or beer with virtually. We don’t even need to be on our webcams if you don’t want.

    See, isn’t that better than having 50 people on mute while the CEO talks, or getting randomly matched with coworkers?

    Ugh, the introvert in me shudders to think about some of these. Please, don’t. Just ask someone to get a coffee like we used to.

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    Linked: Worker resilience starts with manager empathy.

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    In the article below, for obvious reasons, I loved this sub-heading: The future of work is connectivity, not proximity. The ability to hire anyone who can connect to your network opens up a whole world of possible talent. But, it also comes with some adjustments that need to be made as well, and the rest…

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Aug 9, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    More Than Half Of Employees Are Afraid To Discuss Their Mental Health With Their Boss, New Data Shows Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates This seems ridiculous, and yet oh so believable. LastPass Checks Dark Web Passwords – You should use a password manager anyway, but this is…

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    Linked: 8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I think the article is helpful, but this one is the one that I suspect many mangers struggle with. “Model healthy behaviors. Don’t just say you support mental health. Model it so that your team members feel they can prioritize self-care and set boundaries. More often than not, managers are so focused on their team’s…