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Do Layoffs Fix Anything, or Do We Have Them Because Everyone Else is Doing It?
Take a hard look at what leaders are saying about layoffs and what they focus on. Do they seem personally hurt and concerned for the people leaving? Do they have honest and transparent explanations for why they made these decisions? Or do they repeat platitudes about “recession,” costs, and other bits of financial jargon to explain away something so painful to the same people they were calling part of the family a week ago?
Families don’t cut the number of kids when money gets tight. Your workplace is not a family and does not deserve a level of commitment that matches your family or your health. Layoffs are sometimes necessary, but mostly just a nice tool to perk up the value of a company for a specific part of the structure or to make up for mistakes made by the same people making these job cuts.
That’s business. I’ve argued for years that business has a vested interest in employee well-being. Caring about your people is how you get their best. I hope leaders will continue to grow in that regard, but as an individual employee, you need to care about yourself more. If your job isn’t meeting your career needs in terms of money, development, or work-life balance, find a better one. You owe them nothing. They pay you to do a job until they decide not to. You owe them that work.
That is all.
Linked: Ransomware recovery costs dwarf actual ransoms
The Check Point folks, naturally go on to point out how investing in security tools and education to prevent ransomware in the first place is the less expensive option, and even though they clearly have a vested interest here, it’s hard not to agree with the basic premise.
Linked – 7 Reasons Not to Use Outlook to Forensically Preserve Emails
With the grain of salt that this is written by a company that makes a forensic email collection tool, I think reasons 2-6 in the linked list are very real issues for any eDiscovery collection, and why I would not rush into collecting any web-based email account. “On the surface, this looks reasonable—Outlook connects to…
Shared Links (weekly) June 19, 2022
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The unrelenting threat of ransomware is pushing cybersecurity workers to quit
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Hackers are now hiding inside networks for longer. That’s not a good sign
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We’re All Coping With So Many Collective Traumas At Work Right Now
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Any company can support employees’ mental wellness. Here’s how with some low- and no-cost tools
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The 6 Best LinkedIn Learning Courses for Managing Remote Teams
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“You Harm Your Client’s Interest When You Craft or Transmit Evasive Discovery Responses”
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The Most Common Mistakes Firms Make When Using eDiscovery Platforms
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The Internet is getting rid of passwords: this is changing now for us as users
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Linked – Employers ‘cannot ignore’ mental health in the workplace
This is, in all honesty, a question that we as a society need to come to grips with. It’s a stigma that exists inside and outside of the workplace, but perhaps we feel it most directly when it comes to work. “If I ring in sick with the flu that would be OK. What if…
Linked: A Few Social Media Suggestions for 2021
We can hate social media algorithms all we want, but the truth is they are simply responding to our own behavior. If Twitter seems ugly and mean to you, quit following ugly and mean people. Find better people to follow. Interact with them, offer up not only your knowledge and expertise, but share other good ideas you find online as well.
