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Success isn’t about who works the longest hours or who has the fanciest title. It’s about who you know, and more importantly, who knows you. That’s why building close, trusted relationships is the …
After Otter.ai, Granola is the next AI note-taking app to face a class-action lawsuit for violating state privacy and consent laws. Here’s what you should know.
It’s Not Just the Tech: The Hidden Cognitive Load of the Physical Workplace
A few days ago I was at a specialist appointment with one of my kids. At some point the conversation turned to teen fatigue across the school week – the kind of bone-tired-by-Thursday feeling…
Corporate America spends billions on mental health services. 97% never use it.
After a decade of innovation in workplace mental health, the utilization needle barely moved. The failure runs deeper than anyone in the industry wants to admit.
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,” the court held that the AI’s summaries are reflections of the company and “above all an expression of Google’s business activities.” This is the latest skirmish in a decades-old battle over internet publishing. Historically, there were two different types of information distributors: carriers and publishers. A phone company is a carrier. It’ll transmit whatever you say, even discussions about committing a crime. Words are words, and the phone company does not know—nor is it liable for—the words you choose to speak. A newspaper, on the other hand, is a publisher. It decides the words it publishes, and what quotes to include in its articles. If those words or quotes are defamatory or otherwise illegal, it’s liable...
People remain committed and stay in an organization for a host of reasons, but “employee engagement” is no longer a reliable predictor of which ones will.