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Quiet Quitting isn’t New, Caregivers Have Always Had To
ByMike McBride October 18, 2022October 17, 2022 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Herein lies the problem that many of our younger employees see and refuse to play along with. Why should our choices be between making a comfortable wage and living outside of work? Why do we live in a world where we have to “quit” being engaged in our work or decide against fully engaging in our families and communities? Moms have had to make this choice for years. Be a good mom and care for your children by lessening your career opportunities, or be a bad mom and focus on your career.

Why is that the choice?

I see article after article talking about the “loss” of productivity to companies when employees are not fully engaged. Still, no one ever calculates the loss in our communities from people who contribute nothing outside of their job. We don’t put a number on the damage done when fathers are uninvolved in kids’ lives or on the missed mental health benefits of being involved in hobbies, friendships, and community groups.

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Training

Linked – How Learning And Development Can Quell Quiet Quitting
ByMike McBride October 14, 2022October 13, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

If you don’t help your people grow and advance their careers, they will not remain engaged at your workplace.

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Career

Linked – Employees Use 4-Day Work Week to Catch up on Sleep: Study
ByMike McBride October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

We know that people who are sleep deprived are cognitively impaired, make more mistakes, and just generally run the risk of some pretty serious health implications. Could a 4-day work week get you more “quality” hours of work from someone who isn’t sleep-deprived than you’re currently getting in the 5-day week?

It’s something to think about.

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Career

Linked – How to make networking events less intimidating and awkward
ByMike McBride October 10, 2022October 9, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Don’t be a bagel. But I lost my confidence as soon as I walked into a room full of … bagels. That’s what networking expert Robbie Samuels calls the tight clusters of people who gather in seemingly impenetrable circles at networking events, who seem to already know each other and don’t want to let newcomers…

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Security

Linked – Fired admin cripples former employer’s network using old credentials
ByMike McBride October 5, 2022October 4, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

I spent a lot of my time these days focused on onboarding, bringing in new people, getting them up to speed, and contributing. That’s an important process. So is off-boarding, because when you don’t have a proper process for departing employees, stuff like this can happen.

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Career

Quick Thought – Work Culture is So Bad that We Use the Word Quitting to Describe Setting Boundaries.
ByMike McBride October 3, 2022October 2, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

They are setting boundaries. They are cutting back on their commitment and engagement with work because they see that work is not the most important thing in life. They make decisions based on their mental health instead of the company’s bottom line.

No one is leaving their job in this situation. No one is not doing their work. They are simply not taking on extra work and commitments that they aren’t getting paid for.

Our society’s relationship with work is so skewed that the word we have chosen for this is “quitting”. There’s something profoundly sad about that.

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