A Word on the SolarWinds Incident
For anyone that’s remotely seen the news lately and heard about a Russian cyber attack on the US, you probably have heard a lot recently about a technology company called SolarWinds. To give you a long story short, their Orion monitoring software was compromised over the course of the past year, and it wasn’t just the US government that was affected. Hospitals, universities, and technologies companies alike were compromised.
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Are you tired of chat sprawl, too?
I once worked for a guy who used to say that when a salesperson or an engineer showed him something, and it got him really excited, that it “pulled his socks down.” From a casual search of the Internet, it doesn’t appear that this one-liner was a real thing, but I surely knew what he meant when he said it.
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Don't give out your cell number.
With everyone working from home these days, it’s tempting to give out the cell phone number for the sake of convenience for you and your clients. You’re working longer hours since you’re working from home. So is your client. And now, they have your cell number. This is a recipe for a disastrous work-life balance.
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Making remote work feel more personal
People that were in a physical office five days a week found themselves suddenly working from home with unexpected new co-workers: partners, children, and pets. Such a change in the work environment, coupled with a lack of tooling to make this feel normal, might tank productivity for the newly remote employee. It doesn’t have to be this way, though.
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