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Linked: Covid-19 Explodes the Myth That Women ‘Opt’ Out of the Workforce
I’m a man with no children. So, working extra hours when the need arises isn’t really an issue. (It’s a mental health and work/life balance issue when it never ends, but when that happens I can choose to go do something else, and we’ve made some progress in recognizing this in many workplaces.) On the other hand, I know, pretty instinctively, that if I put a hard 40 hour limit, or a hard ending of my day at a certain time, no matter what, I’d probably be out of a job. Yet, for people with children, there needs to be a hard cap on the hours spent working. The pandemic creating this home/virtual school issue made this worse, and more obvious, but it’s always been an issue. Lots of workplaces talk a good game about balance and flexibility, but when push comes to shove, most of them will also demand that you figure out your childcare issues on your own time and be available to work in a pinch. So, you login from home all evening and work, and if you’re a single parent, the kids get ignored, or maybe you can find someone else to watch them for you. If there are two parents, you’d better hope you both don’t have those kinds of jobs, because one of you needs to be available for childcare, you can’t both be online working all night.
And, if you have to choose which one leaves that kind of work arrangement, well, in general, women get paid less and have less advancement opportunities, (partially because they are more likely to “opt-out”), so they are going to be the ones to opt out, perpetuating the impression that women make these choices, that are then used to justify not changing the workplace to accommodate working mothers. After all, they’re likely to leave anyway, right?
It’s really quite the little, vicious, circle we’ve made for women in the workplace.
Linked – Australian Government Passes Law Forcing Tech Companies To Break Encryption
Dear Australia. I love you, but this is completely impossible: “Here’s a short summary of the new powers the legislation hands over to law enforcement and national security agencies: The law enables Australia’s attorney-general to order the likes of Apple, Facebook, and Whatsapp to build capability, such as software code, which enables police to access…
Linked – IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere
It makes sense, even if it does prove to be a royal pain every once in awhile. I’ve seen this policy in place on occasion, including when we wanted to do training using USB keys for the software licenses. Had to work around that! “Big Blue’s doing this because “the possible financial and reputational damage…
Linked: How to Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Productivity
RSS is not gone, quite the opposite. Most people, however, don’t use RSS subscriptions like they did in the old Google Reader days, but RSS is running underneath a whole lot of stuff that we all use every day.
But, I also want to point out that there are a TON of good reasons to use an RSS reader now. Maybe more than there were when Google still had one. As it is, we’ve sort of grown into this habit of letting social media inform us. If there’s some topic we want to know about, we’ll follow some accounts and let the algorithm decide for us what we need to see.
Look how well that’s working out.
Why do Hackers Target Law Firms? – Here’s an Example
Over the years I think many firms have started to understand that and taken steps to improve their own security posture.
And then along comes a story like this.
Linked – Personal Posts Absolutely Belong on LinkedIn
“We didn’t quite read the whole definition – we all got a bit caught up in “productive and successful” there. Let’s try it again: to connect the world’s professionals to enable them to be more productive and successful. Ahh, that little word at the start seems to have slipped our minds. LinkedIn is about connection.”…
