Safety

Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 19, 2023
ByMike McBride November 19, 2023November 18, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute
- The Future of Mental Health at Work Is Safety, Community, and a Healthy Organizational Culture
- 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. “
- Staying Mentally Strong: Tips For You And Your Team This Holiday Season.
- Microsoft Ignite 2023 Announcements Emphasize Copilot
- Transparent Cultures Are Built on Trust
- 5 Cybersecurity Tips for Small IT teams
- Shadow AI: A Thorny Problem For Law Firms– This is probably already happening.
- Return-to-office mandates could spell trouble for working mothers
- If You Struggle To Network, You’re Not Alone
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Mental Health

The Gap Between What Management Thinks about Mental Health and what Employees Experience
ByMike McBride July 20, 2023July 20, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Leaders often throw benefits out to solve the problem, when work might actually be the problem. A great employee assistance program, health insurance that fairly covers mental healthcare, heck maybe they even threw in a few meditation app subscriptions for free. “See, we care!”

But the employee is quietly suffering from a lack of any connection to coworkers, poor communication with their boss, workplace stress, or even bullying and harassment, with no one in leadership to talk to. That’s not going to make them feel like you care.

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Tech

Please Don’t Take Chances with Stalkerware
ByMike McBride April 17, 2023April 16, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Let me repeat what I’ve said before. If you are in an abusive situation and your partner has had access to your phone, leave it behind. If you suspect any of your devices had these tools installed, do not take any chances with them. Yes, getting a new phone and changing all of your passwords will be a pain in the ass. It will suck to set up a new email and change the default email address for all of your online accounts.

It still beats getting tracked down by a violent ex-partner. Do not make light of this. This is life and death stuff. Trying to remove stalker ware incorrectly might kill people. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. Don’t take the chance.

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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) Mar. 12, 2023
ByMike McBride March 12, 2023July 17, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute
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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 12, 2023
ByMike McBride February 12, 2023July 17, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute
- Google Layoffs Show You Must Look Out For Yourself
- Don’t Just Memorize Your Next Presentation — Know It Cold– I often hear people talking about not practicing their presentation for fear of sounding “too rehearsed.” The fix is to know it even better.
- Rise of Collaboration Apps Could Make Data Custodians Irrelevant– I agree data is no longer about the person who created it.
- Practical Applications of eDiscovery Rules
- Social Media Security: What You Need to Know
- 5 Ways To Support Your Mental Health After Being Laid Off
- You Need to Address Skills Gaps Before It’s Too Late. Here’s How.
- Tech’s Elite Hates Labor
- How To Deal With Unemployment Depression
- Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity: Why Companies Must Build Safety Into Tech Products – As Americans have integrated technology into nearly every facet of their lives, they have unwittingly come to accept that it is normal for new software and devices to be indefensible by design.
Read More Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 12, 2023