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Linked: The “Great Resignation” Gains Steam as Employers Call Employees Back to Work
This is mind-blowing:
“The Monster report suggests that 93% of employees are willing to change industries to find the right job. Monster found that burnout and lack of growth opportunities are driving the shift.”
Linked – Fin7: The Inner Workings of a Billion-Dollar Hacking Group
This is a fascinating look at a pretty complex and coordinated hacking group, Fin7. They used a lot of the same tools that companies use for project management and remote collaboration, and they specifically targeted the types of employees who would be likely to expect emails from strangers, like this one: “On or around March…
Linked – This Australian AI Aims to Be a ‘Law Firm Without Lawyers’
This is an obvious use of AI in law, allowing clients the ability to respond to questions and get legal documents like a will without the much higher expense of a lawyer’s time. This, is the part that jumped out at me though: “Much of the work these bots, and AI technology in general, do…
Linked – Emerging content formats challenge e-discovery
As an industry, we’re always behind, but this is telling – “As new types of content materialize from various applications and devices, the e-discovery process will become more difficult. According to a recent report from Osterman Research, any electronic information is potentially subject to e-discovery, including text messages, social media posts, data in collaboration…
Linked: Remote working jobs: 5 problems we need to solve in 2022
Sadly, most managers just don’t know how to do this. We’ve lived in a world where hard work = hours worked for so long that we don’t know how to do anything else, even though it was also never really true. There have always been people who “work” long hours just to look good without ever really getting anything done, and others who get work done very efficiently and see no reason to sit at their desk longer and play that game. (And everything in between these two extremes!)
What we haven’t done in many cases is figure out better ways to measure who is getting actual work done, because sometimes that’s hard to do.
