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Time Is A Management Tool, Not A Pricing Tool
‘Law firms have conflated using time as a management tool with using it as a pricing tool,’ said Richard Burcher, a pricing expert and chair of the Virtual Pricing Director platform. And this goes …
ChatGPT in trouble with the EU (again)
Tell Employees What It Takes to Get a Promotion
Creating a path to promotion: Discover why organizations should communicate expectations and opportunities for career growth to their employees.
Ask the Career Coach: How to Research Employers for Your Next Interview
The month, Career Coach Wendy Terwelp offers advice on how to research potential employers during your job search.
A Business Case for Building Empathy, Trust, and Psychological Safety
Because of the link between empathy and organizational outcomes, the key actionable issue is whether improved empathy can be learned through coaching, training, or the establishment of explicit group norms. Accumulating evidence shows that individuals and teams can get better at empathy using specific techniques and interventions.
M365 Conference 2024 Session Schedule Disappoints Me
The M365 Conference takes place in Orlando, FL from April 28 to May 2, 2024. I have two sessions, but my attempts to find sessions that cover all of M365 failed
Mental Health at Work: Managers and Money
Global research from The Workforce Institute at UKG spotlights the critical role jobs, leadership, and, most of all, managers play in supporting mental health.
What’s the Business Impact of Customer Training?
Learn how customer training can help your business reduce churn, improve adoption, and retain revenue in this informative article.
New data shows shortsighted companies will try to replace workers with AI
A new survey shows that 41% of senior executives at global companies believe there will be a reduction in workforce sizes as they adopt generative AI, contradicting the narrative of AI as a helper.
Adecco Group asked senior executives from 2,000 large companies worldwide to predict what they think will happen in the coming years. Of those, 41% said they expect to have small workforces in the next five years due to artificial intelligence.
How To Communicate Better At Work Easily And Accomplish More
If you want to accomplish more at work, practice these communication techniques to connect better and strengthen work relationships.
Microsoft Says Copilot Users Would Love It More If They Wrote Better Prompts
Rather than improving its product—or admitting people don't want it—Microsoft is throwing shade.
Actually, the internet's always been this bad
A new study considers 30 years of comments, with surprising conclusions
Employees need AI skills — but what does that training look like?
And it’s not just a few companies here and there: it’s just about the entire working world. According to a recent report from PeopleScout and Spotted Zebra, about 90% of HR leaders believe that up to half their workforce will need to be reskilled in the next five years.
No One Wants To Talk About These 3 Ways AI Copilots Will Reshape Learning
Discover the potential of conversational AI tools with reshaping performance support at work. Traditional L&D is getting an upgrade.
Collaboration Tools in the Legal Sphere: A Rising Trend
Explore the pivotal trend reshaping the legal industry: the growing reliance on collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack, and how they are influencing communication and data management in legal practices.
People in 20s more likely to be out of work because of poor mental health than those in early 40s
“The economic consequences of poor mental health are starkest for young people who don’t go to university, with one in three young non-graduates with a common mental disorder currently workless.”
Promotion? No Thanks!
I wonder how many of the survey responders watch their managers struggle and/or fail because they weren't prepared for management?
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
It's probably time to switch. I've been hesitant because I have multiple profiles set up in Chrome, and have for years, but I think the investment in replicating that in Firefox might be worth it.
Switching away from Gmail might be a little harder though. Too many places have that email as my contact point. But, I do own multiple websites, there's nothing stopping me from starting to use those email accounts more.
The Making of a Myth: Big Tech, Billionaires, and the Wild West
Photo by Trace Hudson on Pexels.com By: Sofia Ellington When former Amazon CEO, and current billionaire, Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez appeared on the cover of Vogue in November 2023…
Initially, Federal laws encouraged early western homesteaders to settle by offering 160 acres of federal land for only the cost of an initial filing fee. Along with those 160 acres, ranchers and homesteaders were able to claim water rights and graze their cattle on public lands at no cost. The sense of ownership over public western lands increased, and some cattle ranchers began to erect barbed wire enclosures to keep out other competing users of the land, along with other tactics that created a hostile atmosphere that helped keep competition away.
After a long period of little federal oversight, the increasing enclosure of public land and environmental concerns over grazing practices spurred Congress to act.
Can remote work cause depression ?
Remote work can be challenging, but it can also be a fantastic opportunity to create a work environment that suits your needs and your well-being. Take the time to prioritize self-care, foster meaningful connections, and find balance in your life, both professionally and personally. You deserve it.
In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?
In Thursday’s post updating customers on findings from its ongoing investigation, Microsoft provided more details on how the hackers achieved this monumental escalation of access. The hackers, part of a group Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard, gained persistent access to the privileged email accounts by abusing the OAuth authorization protcol, which is used industry-wide to allow an array of apps to access resources on a network. After compromising the test tenant, Midnight Blizzard used it to create a malicious app and assign it rights to access every email address on Microsoft’s Office 365 email service.
In Thursday’s post updating customers on findings from its ongoing investigation, Microsoft provided more details on how the hackers achieved this monumental escalation of access. The hackers, part of a group Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard, gained persistent access to the privileged email accounts by abusing the OAuth authorization protcol, which is used industry-wide to allow an array of apps to access resources on a network. After compromising the test tenant, Midnight Blizzard used it to create a malicious app and assign it rights to access every email address on Microsoft’s Office 365 email service.
Attaining Work-Life Balance in an Era of Burnout
The reason many of the solutions fail is because they falsely believe burnout is an individual problem, rather than a collective problem. The source of burnout was captured rather elegantly in a survey of 7,500 full-time employees by Gallup, which found the top five reasons for burnout are (1) Unfair treatment at work, (2) Unmanageable workload, (3) Lack of role clarity, (4) Lack of communication and support from their manager, and (5) Unreasonable time pressure.
Notice how none of these problems are remotely addressed by mediation apps or Yoga? Companies are completely missing the mark when it comes to addressing burnout.
The reason many of the solutions fail is because they falsely believe burnout is an individual problem, rather than a collective problem. The source of burnout was captured rather elegantly in a survey of 7,500 full-time employees by Gallup, which found the top five reasons for burnout are (1) Unfair treatment at work, (2) Unmanageable workload, (3) Lack of role clarity, (4) Lack of communication and support from their manager, and (5) Unreasonable time pressure.Notice how none of these problems are remotely addressed by mediation apps or Yoga? Companies are completely missing the mark when it comes to addressing burnout.
Survey: Employers face more turnover in 2024 as confidence in leadership dips
Surveyed drivers prefer low-tech cars over data-sharing ones
According to a survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by Kaspersky in November and published this week, 72 percent of drivers are uncomfortable with automakers sharing their data with advertisers, insurance companies, subscription services, and other third-party outfits. Specifically, 37.3 percent of those polled are "very uncomfortable" with this data sharing, and 34.5 percent are "somewhat uncomfortable."
However, only 28 percent of the total respondents say they have any idea what kind of data their car is collecting. Spoiler alert: It's potentially all the data.
According to a survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by Kaspersky in November and published this week, 72 percent of drivers are uncomfortable with automakers sharing their data with advertisers, insurance companies, subscription services, and other third-party outfits. Specifically, 37.3 percent of those polled are "very uncomfortable" with this data sharing, and 34.5 percent are "somewhat uncomfortable."
However, only 28 percent of the total respondents say they have any idea what kind of data their car is collecting. Spoiler alert: It's potentially all the data.