People tend to work longer hours because they believe it’s expected of them: In times of financial uncertainty or other life uncertainty, people become more concerned about their work to seem more productive, fear their job if they're not prepared to work long hours. (…) My feeling is a [...]
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota (Penguin House, Released 2 March 2021) I recently listened to this audio book and was fascinated by this highly competent and driven young woman’s description of how studying and developing surgical experience in Australia ultimately resulted in her burnout. By burnout, I mean a [...]
When I joined Umbrella as a Marketing Lead, and received my first emails from my colleagues, the first thing I noticed was they had their working hours and days specified in their signatures. Everyone at Umbrella has a schedule that suits their lifestyle, work preferences and habits. Flexible working [...]
In recent years, several notoriously famous incidents of the use of technology to influence peoples’ behaviour without their consent have come to the world’s attention. Whether we are speaking of misuse of social media users’ data or of using AI to make recruitment decisions, it poses an ethical dilemma. [...]