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Linked: Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy.
ByMike McBride November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Autonomy is understanding what needs to be done and having the freedom to decide the best way to get it all done. Managers can still contribute, they still set the priorities, they assist with roadblocks, and they are the ones who communicate what needs to be done, but when they start to go much further than that, employees feel that loss of autonomy, and they don’t like it.

Over the last couple of years, managers have been forced to sit back and let employees have autonomy. Much like my own experience, you can’t possibly expect employees who were successful and productive with that autonomy to just give it back for no reason.

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Linked: Smartphone Phishing Attacks Increasing
ByMike McBride November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Hackers are moving to mobile because most of us are moving to mobile. That’s not surprising, and given the fact that it’s a little more difficult to spot on a mobile device, that’s just a bonus.

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Good Information on the Current State of the eDiscovery Job Market
ByMike McBride November 4, 2021November 5, 2021 Reading Time: 4 minutes

I tuned into a webinar yesterday put on by ACEDS, and then saw today that Jared Coseglia, from TRU Staffing Partners, had posted an article with many of the same points he mentioned on the webinar. If you’re in the eDiscovery space or want to get into the eDiscovery space, this is worth a read:

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Linked: You know how to identify phishing emails – a cybersecurity researcher explains how to trust your instincts to foil the attacks
ByMike McBride November 3, 2021November 3, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

And so, I wonder if those yearly, semi-annual, quarterly, video training would be a lot more effective if we also shared specific examples of people who got phished, and how they fell for it?

Like most things in life, it’s one thing to hypothetically know that something could happen, but it’s quite another to know that it did happen to someone we know. Someone just like us. That makes it so much more real in our minds, and it appears to make a huge difference in how users might approach phishing attempts.

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Linked: Making workplaces better for people struggling with mental health will make work better for everyone
ByMike McBride November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

The reality is if you allow people to be flexible and get their work done in the way that makes the most sense for them, individually, they will all benefit from that decision. There won’t be a fairness issue because of some accommodation because everyone is getting the accommodation they need to do their best work.

What’s wrong with that? Isn’t that what management says they want?

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Linked: The Term ‘Bullying’ Doesn’t Easily Fit the Workplace
ByMike McBride October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It’s true, what we define as bullying among school children with no option to simply leave school doesn’t really fit when talking about the workplace, though it is the height of privilege to not recognize that many low-paid workers don’t necessarily have that same level of freedom to do so.

But, as the quote points out, it doesn’t matter what we call it, unprofessional behavior that hurts coworkers and employees has no place in the workplace:

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