Worth Reading – Artificial Intelligence Can’t Fix the Work Environment
When you read some of the statistics about email, meetings, interruptions, etc., it’s hard not to see the same glaring red flag that Sharlyn sees. We might suck at communicating.
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Worth Reading – AI Blackouts Are Coming: How Law Firms Can Maintain Enterprise Operations During Agent Grid Failure 2025
Perhaps we should include a bullet point or two in our business continuity plans for addressing AI outages. Of course, we might also consider the continuity plan for AI tools, or any SAAS solution, going under as well. It’s just good risk management.
How much of your AI work would be negatively impacted by even a few hours of downtime?
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Worth Reading – ChatGPT can now connect to Outlook, Teams, Gmail, Google Drive, and other services
From an end-user perspective, this is interesting and smart.
ChatGPT can now integrate with external services like Outlook, Teams, Gmail, and Google Drive to access real-time data for more relevant responses.
From the perspective of being responsible for securing AI use within a firm’s M365 environment, this is somewhat unsettling.
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Worth Reading – New OneDrive Prompt Could Mix Work and Personal Files
There are obvious data privacy risks here. Sometimes, I forget that not everyone works in the legal industry and is hyper-aware of confidentiality and data privacy, the way you are when that is your firm’s business, but this is not one of those times. Every business, including Microsoft, would be unhappy if a user synced company data into their consumer OneDrive account.
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Linked – Microsoft’s layoff : How corporate downsizing is sparking a global mental health epidemic
We also need to talk once again about the mental health of both those who were let go and those who are left behind. The shock of having your life turned upside down on the whim of an organization’s managers is overwhelming. Anyone who has been part of a layoff can tell you that. I went through it, and I know plenty of others who have also done so. It’s a traumatic experience.
I’ve also had the experience of watching people I worked closely with get let go more than once as part of a downsizing. That is also traumatic, and the impact goes much further than being sad the day it happens. You’re also likely adjusting schedules and workloads, taking on more work and stress for the same pay, and feeling guilty because you are at least still getting paid while others are not.
So, if you know someone affected by these layoffs, please reach out. Keep in touch with them as best you can and help keep them connected to a community within their industry.
