March 26th, 2024
I get that people are expensive. There are wages and all those pesky benefits like healthcare and paid sick leave. It adds up fast. If you need to polish up a P&L real quick, laying off employees is a tempting choice.
March 27th, 2024
Take care of yourself, get rest, disconnect from work completely every day. And if you can't do it for yourself, do it for the people who love you until you can do it for yourself. Nobody can rest for you.
March 28th, 2024
There's nothing magic about a 5 day work week. It was a combination of religious days of rest, factories where people had to show up and leave at the same time to do the work, and Henry Ford's realization in 1926 that people would buy more cars if they actually had time to do stuff besides work.
March 29th, 2024
The California legislature is considering ways to protect employees and consumers from people and companies letting tech make their decisions for them. And the biggest problem with that is if the tech is really good and useful and the people take the suggestions most of the time, is that evidence that the tech is making the decisions?
April 1st, 2024
AI is already part of most HR technology and employment decisions are still made by people.
Trying to figure out the role of AI is employment decisions is kind of silly. Let's focus on the discrimination.
Trying to figure out the role of AI is employment decisions is kind of silly. Let's focus on the discrimination.