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Booze, lies and politics

The Reset by Sam Delaney • 0 implied HN points • 17 Mar 23
🎭️ Culture Workplace Politics Mental health Podcasts Books
  1. The author reflects on their early experience in politics and how their attitude affected their career progression.
  2. The author discusses their reluctance to prioritize work over personal life and the impact it had on their career.
  3. The author highlights the importance of feeling trusted, responsible, and respected at work to improve overall well-being and productivity.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Tech Work

Adam’s Substack • 0 implied HN points • 26 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Workplace History Skills Learning Industry
  1. Take care of basic needs first in your work environment, like comfort and safety.
  2. Mastering fundamental skills and tools, like touch typing, can significantly enhance your efficiency and long-term success.
  3. Learn from the experienced individuals in different industries, as they hold valuable lessons that can benefit the tech industry, which is still relatively young.

The Short And Perilous Life of The American Worker Bee

Ulizzle On Software • 0 implied HN points • 20 Feb 24
🎭️ Culture Workplace Society Education
  1. Many individuals spend crucial years of their lives wasting time and efforts which can lead to feelings of worthlessness.
  2. A belief that a diploma is the only path to education and financial security can ostracize the working class from society.
  3. Excessive workloads and lack of growth opportunities can lead to mental and physical depletion in the life of an American worker bee.
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Commentary: How to treat the people that built the system you work on

Bad Software Advice • 0 implied HN points • 26 Feb 24
💼 Business Management Workplace Systems
  1. Show respect for the accomplishments of the people who built the system you work on.
  2. Appreciate that the system you work on exists and has provided you with a job, despite other systems from the same era no longer being functional.
  3. Recognize that every job or contract related to maintaining or replacing a system signifies finding a quality solution to a real problem and building a business around it.

Redefining Employee Satisfaction Surveys in the Age of GPT

Tomasz’s Substack • 0 implied HN points • 30 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Innovation Feedback Analysis Automation Workplace
  1. Traditional closed-ended surveys for employee satisfaction might be outdated due to survey fatigue. Employees disengage when faced with exhaustive questionnaires.
  2. GPT technology enables a shift to analyzing unstructured text for employee feedback, revolutionizing how viewpoints are obtained and interpreted. It's like surveying the text instead of the people behind it.
  3. Open-ended questions combined with GPT analysis offer a more comprehensive understanding of employee sentiments, preventing the accidental omission of significant topics in surveys. This approach can reveal unknown issues to HR.

GRANTED: The 4-day work week and what different generations really want out of work

Granted • 0 implied HN points • 18 Aug 18
💼 Business Workplace Generations Productivity Gender Equality Career development
  1. Good bosses create opportunities for growth and advancement, even if it means leaving for another organization.
  2. Shifting to a 4-day work week can increase engagement, work-life balance, and decrease stress without compromising productivity.
  3. Employees value a career, community, and cause in the workplace, with a shift towards cause as they age, emphasizing the importance of these aspects across all generations.

GRANTED: The two kinds of respect employees want and why you should bet on older entrepreneurs

Granted • 0 implied HN points • 15 Jul 18
💼 Business Entrepreneurship Management Workplace Parenting
  1. Employees want two kinds of respect: owed respect, which is about being included and recognized as a human being, and earned respect, which is about being valued for contributions
  2. Betting on older entrepreneurs can be more beneficial, as 40-year-olds are more likely to found successful startups compared to 25-year-olds
  3. The evolution of self-esteem in a career involves transitioning from feeling unimportant to pursuing work that is important, which leads to increased productivity and impact

Why no one talks about the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

Penelope Trunk's Substack • 0 implied HN points • 09 Oct 23
🎭️ Culture Gender Society Workplace Parenting Feminism
  1. Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for groundbreaking research on women and work, showing that balancing career and parenthood is a challenging reality rather than an ideal.
  2. Goldin's research reveals the difficulty in being both a high-performing professional and a quality parent simultaneously, challenging the common belief that individuals can easily excel in both roles.
  3. Her work highlights the complex choices individuals, especially women, have to make regarding career and family, emphasizing the societal impact and personal sacrifices involved in striving for excellence in multiple domains.