"Liking a co-worker’s photo on social media. Sending them direct messages. Checking in on Slack more often than before," writes Albert Stumm could be a form of microcheating during this age of social media.
@AssociatedPress explains what microcheating is and if it's really a big deal.
Digital nomads, stop pretending touch controls are ‘charming.’ The Mobile Gaming Kit gives you keyboard and mouse precision for mobile gaming, wherever your travels take you! No more awkward grenade throws or missed shots. Compact, plug-and-play, and compatible with Android & iOS—now you can work AND game like a pro. https://remoteworkersrepublic.com/product/mobile-gaming-kit-for-digital-nomads/
I'm specifically looking for individuals with experience auditing source code for vulnerabilities and coming up with realistic exploits/exploit scenarios. Please note that "closed box" network penetration skills don't really apply to the work my team and I perform.
That said, Windows system internals knowledge is a plus, and I'm always happy to chat with folks who have experience(s) with other OS platforms—especially mobile—along with other language experience(s) such as Golang, Rust, TypeScript / JavaScript, Python, Ruby, C, C++, and Kotlin / Java.
When your favorite place to work is the nearby McCafe and you try to finally move forward with the book you were supposed to finish a week ago #remotework#coding
Many bosses across Wall Street and beyond have been doubling down on their return-to-office mandates for employees — but not all CFOs, or even CEOs, are drinking the RTO Kool-Aid.
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon #EconomicGrowth as an objective.
By Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Julia K. Steinberger, Peter A. Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, 12 December 2022
Excerpt: "The global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed. This dynamic is driving climate change and ecological breakdown. High-income economies, and the corporations and wealthy classes that dominate them, are mainly responsible for this problem and consume energy and materials at unsustainable rates.
"Yet many industrialized countries are now struggling to grow their economies, given economic convulsions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resource scarcities and stagnating productivity improvements. Governments face a difficult situation. Their attempts to stimulate growth clash with objectives to improve human well-being and reduce environmental damage.
"GDP is getting a makeover — what it means for economies, health and the planet
"Researchers in ecological economics call for a different approach — degrowth. Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (#GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of #production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This approach, which has gained traction in recent years, can enable rapid #decarbonization and stop ecological breakdown while improving social outcomes. It frees up energy and materials for low- and middle-income countries in which growth might still be needed for development. Degrowth is a purposeful strategy to stabilize economies and achieve social and ecological goals, unlike recession, which is chaotic and socially destabilizing and occurs when growth-dependent economies fail to grow.
"Reports this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (#IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on #Biodiversity and #Ecosystem Services (#IPBES) suggest that degrowth policies should be considered in the fight against #ClimateBreakdown and #biodiversity loss, respectively. Policies to support such a strategy include the following.
"Reduce less-necessary production. This means scaling down destructive sectors such as #FossilFuels, mass-produced meat and dairy, #FastFashion, #advertising, #cars and aviation, including #PrivateJets. At the same time, there is a need to end the #PlannedObsolescence of products, lengthen their lifespans and reduce the purchasing power of the #rich.
"Introduce a green jobs guarantee. This would train and mobilize labour around urgent social and ecological objectives, such as installing renewables, insulating buildings, regenerating #ecosystems and improving social care. A programme of this type would end unemployment and ensure a just transition out of jobs for workers in declining industries or 'sunset sectors', such as those contingent on fossil fuels. It could be paired with a #UniversalIncome policy.
"Reduce working time. This could be achieved by lowering the retirement age, encouraging part-time working or adopting a four-day working week [and hybrid or remote work]. These measures would lower #CarbonEmissions and free people to engage in care and other welfare-improving activities. They would also stabilize employment as less-necessary production declines.
"Enable #sustainable development. This requires cancelling unfair and unpayable debts of low- and middle-income countries, curbing unequal exchange in international trade and creating conditions for productive capacity to be reoriented towards achieving social objectives.
"Some countries, regions and cities have already introduced elements of these policies. Many European nations guarantee free health care and education; Vienna and Singapore are renowned for high-quality public housing; and nearly 100 cities worldwide offer free public transport. Job guarantee schemes have been used by many nations in the past, and experiments with basic incomes and shorter working hours are under way in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand.
"But implementing a more comprehensive strategy of degrowth — in a safe and just way — faces five key research challenges, as we outline here."
"Proponents say working in person full-time will boost productivity, but experts say that women will pay a unique price...Now it appears that many women rely on remote work to succeed at home and in their professional role. CNBC’s annual Women at Work survey recently found that about a quarter of respondents said their work-life balance had improved over the last year. They attributed the change primarily to having a more flexible schedule. "
For me, it is a totally different workstyle, not so much because of the pairing itself, but because of the focussed structure that it enforces on the work day. Usually, while I had been working on one main task as well, I was always the first to jump in to help with whatever someone came up on the company Slack. Plus various chores around the house #RemoteWork.
So I was much more multi-tasked and "agile" before.
And you have to be much more strict about scheduling your day.
New research shows that tinny-sounding audio in video calls makes you seem less intelligent, credible, hireable, and dateable – even when you say the same thing.
Otter AI’s “Hey Otter” lets AI speak & act live in meetings—not just transcribe. New autonomous agent can run sales demos, answer questions, and book follow-ups. Otter uses custom RAG to integrate company knowledge into its AI’s actions. Cisco, Zoom, MS Teams also integrate agents for action-driven meetings.
Wir suchen dich – Leitung Marketing (m/w/d) gesucht!
Du hast Lust, mit kreativen Ideen unser Marketing voranzubringen? Du kennst dich mit digitalem Marketing aus und möchtest die Vernetzung der Zivilgesellschaft mitgestalten? Dann komm ins Team von wechange eG!
