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Beware Those Claiming Expertise with Copilot for M365
I’ve seen the same thing Loryan has seen, though. Microsoft partners and consulting companies are offering up “expertise” on Copilot that I don’t believe they have. If you’re looking for guidance to help you navigate the Copilot waters, I also recommend vetting the folks who claim to be able to do that.
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Linked – The wrong way to define productivity
As the article mentions, this is a big reason why return-to-office mandates have destroyed the trust between management and employees. When I’m happily working remotely, finishing all of my tasks and projects on time, connecting with the people I need to collaborate with just fine, and reporting on the status of my work using the tools available, and you turn around and tell me that I need to be in the office to be more productive, I quickly see that for what it is. Despite the results, you don’t trust people to do their jobs.
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Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 19, 2023
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The Future of Mental Health at Work Is Safety, Community, and a Healthy Organizational Culture
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Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs– “In other words, it’s A-OK for your car to “automatically and without authorization, instantaneously intercept, record, download, store, and [be] capable of transmitting” text messages and call logs since the privacy violation is potential, but the injury not necessarily actual. “
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Staying Mentally Strong: Tips For You And Your Team This Holiday Season.
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Shadow AI: A Thorny Problem For Law Firms– This is probably already happening.
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Return-to-office mandates could spell trouble for working mothers
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Linked – For ‘Unhappy’ Law Firms, There’s Little Recourse From Fast Rising Legal Tech Prices
With all the announcements from Microsoft Ignite about Teams Premium, SharePoint Premium, CoPilot, etc. these subscription costs are about to get even higher if firms want to keep up with technological changes.
And this will remain a massive problem:
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Don’t Just Work – Get a Hobby
In other words, I’m more than simply a worker. I’m more than a cog in the capitalist system that pays me for my labor. We all are, but we don’t always act like it, and I suspect that Helen is correct in her assumption that part of the reason is that we have prioritized work so far above and beyond the rest of our lives that we don’t have anything else to do.
That’s not a recipe for a healthy and balanced life.
