This is, in all honesty, a question that we as a society need to come to grips with. It’s a stigma that exists inside and outside of the workplace, but perhaps we feel it most directly when it comes to work. “If I ring in sick with the flu that would be OK. What if…
Recently, while meeting with a vendor doing a software demo, the sales rep for said vendor assured me that: “You’d have an assigned project manager, and you’ll have their cell phone number and can reach them anywhere, anytime, even if you have an issue come up at 2AM”. My biggest takeaway from that? There’s a…
The other day, as I was perusing various news sources, I happened upon back to back articles from Psychology Today. Now at first glimpse these articles might not seem related, but I think they are. Let me start by talking about Facebook though. Way back in his Harvard days, Mark Zuckerberg, the legend holds, started…
This opinion might be a bit overly broad, and is clearly based on anecdotal evidence, but there’s no question this goes on in many workplaces. The philosophy of today’s corporations is simple: get all you can out of employees and pay them as little as possible. If possible hire them on a freelance basis so…
I’ve been sharing these articles on social media for much of this week because the topic is obviously something I have a keen interest it. If you haven’t seen any of them or just want to get caught up on the whole series from this past week that Rocket Matter put together, this is the…
These numbers are startling – A Johns Hopkins University study of more than 100 professions revealed that lawyers are 3.6 times as likely to be depressed as people with other jobs, while the landmark 2016 American Bar Association (ABA) and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation study determined that 28% of licensed, employed lawyers suffer depression. The…