AI Will Save Lawyers Time – But Does Anyone Want That?
What if AI saves lawyers time, but it either hurts their profits, or makes no real difference because they still have to bill enough hours to hit their targets? A Thomson Reuters Future of Professi…
As companies push for an RTO, the risk of increased sexual harassment looms. Discover why remote work offers a safer environment and what can be done to protect employees.
It's Not Nagging: Effective Communication is Deliberately Redundant
“I love repeating myself” – said nobody ever. When asked to repeat ourselves, we seem to fall on a spectrum from “I don’t like it” to “I dread it so much it makes my blood boil”. People generally don’t like repeating themselves. As software engineers, we run into this far too often, probably because we value efficiency. The DRY principle in programming also doesn’t help. We’re taught that repetition, at least in code, is a bad practice and can lead to maintenance nightmares.
Law Firms Start Training Summer Associates on Using Generative AI
Some Big Law firms are now making summer associates learn the ins and outs of generative AI as they begin integrating what’s considered to be a game-changing technology for the profession.
The Plan To Sunset Section 230 Is About A Rogue Congress Taking The Internet Hostage If It Doesn’t Get Its Way
If Congress doesn’t get Google and Meta to agree to Section 230 reforms, it’s going to destroy the rest of the open internet, while Google and Meta will be just fine. If that sounds stupidly counte…
What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring
In recent years companies have removed college-degree requirements from many of their job postings. They’ve done this for good reason: Talent is scarce, and requiring degrees eliminates almost two-thirds of workers from consideration, a disproportionate number of them Black and Hispanic. But there’s a problem: For every 100 of these new postings, fewer than four additional candidates without degrees are actually hired. The authors of this article argue that it’s time to do more to make skills-based hiring a reality, and they present six ways that companies and hiring managers can do so.
‘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 …
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
Global research from The Workforce Institute at UKG spotlights the critical role jobs, leadership, and, most of all, managers play in supporting mental health.
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.
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.
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.