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Linked: Ongoing M365 Tenant Upgrades/Migrations
ByMike McBride May 27, 2021May 26, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It’s not normal for us to be using a platform that works one way, then changes and works another way two weeks later, but that is absolutely the way the Agile development is going to happen. The decision to change will be pushed by the business case for making the change, eDiscovery will be a second thought, if a thought at all.

That means two things in my mind in addition to the things Greg lays out in his post below.

1. You have to test, test, test. Constantly. You have to stay on top of new features, old feature changes, undocumented changes, etc.

2. The legal industry as a whole is going to have to get a lot more comfortable with “good faith efforts” being a little more of a gray area as these changes get made. What we could collect easily before, may require a lot more time and effort today, or it may not be possible today because of a bug in a recent update.

It’s going to happen. Whether you want to talk about M365, Google, cloud document management, cloud review platforms, or even cloud backups. Things will happen beyond our ability to control them, and those things will impact eDiscovery. Are we going to be OK accepting that?

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Linked: Long working hours killing 745,000 people a year, study finds
ByMike McBride May 26, 2021May 24, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

So let me ask you, is what you do at work worth taking years off your life? Research continues to indicate that long work hours do a lot more than leave us feeling burned out, they are actually leading to earlier deaths.

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Linked: 7 Ways to Recover from Burnout
ByMike McBride May 25, 2021May 23, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

I do believe a lot of people are burned out, not just from work, but from everything else going on in the world, on top of work. Then they look at their workplace and ask a simple question, does this job make burnout better, or worse, and if it’s worse, what are my options for changing that.

Not continuing to work in that place, is one option that many are opting for.

Can we blame them?

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Linked: AI has a racism problem, but fixing it is complicated, say experts
ByMike McBride May 24, 2021May 23, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

AI is not without bias, and maybe the best thing we can do is know that going in, instead of assuming that technology would solve this problem.

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Compare and Contrast – What Helps Remote Employees?
ByMike McBride May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

I feel like I can just share the titles of these two articles and make my point. But I will add this one thing. As work moves to a more remote, work from anywhere, model, you have a choice on how to manage your people. You can define the work they need to do, explain how it will be measured and trust them get it done, or you can treat them like children.

Which one do you think will make for better engaged, mentally healthy, employees?

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Linked: Changed by pandemic, many workers won’t return to old jobs
ByMike McBride May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Do the calculation yourself. What do you ask employees to tolerate versus what they get from the job, and consider what you’ve asked them to put up with during the last year versus what they get from the job. The calculations have changed. As it turns out, those employees were watching you, and watching how much you valued their health and safety.

Consider the possibility that you didn’t show them what they wanted to see, and that’s why they’re not coming back, and why no one else wants to work there too.

Maybe they’ll come back to work when they have no other options, for a short time, but they’ll never be committed to you again. You’ve lost that, and in many cases, you deserved it.

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