“A 2017 study on abusive supervision found that people who have worked with a bullying boss report being more withdrawn and depressed, and that targets of abusive supervision report symptoms that bear ‘striking similarities to those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder’. “Research has long supported a link between workplace abuse and negative consequences for employees [...]
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Advantage Amazon
“Over the past decade Amazon Web Services (AWS) lured untold numbers of consumers and corporations onto its billowing cloud. The division earned its giant e-commerce parent $7.3bn in operating profits last year. It could soon be earning more. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s boss, is going after a potentially more lucrative customer: the government. Amazon has outspent [...]
Really doomed, really
“… a newly appointed dean can simply decide that, since he is obviously a very important person, it is only natural that he should have five or six additional administrative staff working under him–and only then begin trying to figure out what said staff are actually going to do. Administrators at private universities are answerable [...]
Office as prison is not news
“Turning an office into a prison, with inmates allowed home for the evenings, does nothing for creativity that is increasingly demanded of office workers as routine tasks are automated. To be productive you need presence of mind, not being present in the flesh.” The joy of absence. How some companies fight the curse of presenteeism, [...]
The only thing worse than not letting all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out
"The early days of the Trump administration ('The 45th president', January 21st) bring to mind Robert Graves's "Claudius." The ageing Roman emperor longs for the return of the republic. To this end he marries Agrippina, mother of Nero, hoping that Nero will be so cruel and despised that it will lead to a rejection of [...]
Hillary concedes
...well, shit.
America isn’t great? Since when?
"'Donald Trump chose racism as his weapon, but his aim is exactly the same as the rest of the Republicans,' Warren said. 'Pound the courts into submission to the rich and powerful.'" Elizabeth Warren labels Donald Trump 'nasty, thin-skinned fraud' in speech, by John R. Ellement, Boston Globe, June 9, 2016 I like E Warren, [...]
Unlady-like behavior in America (oh, wait, it’s an election year, never mind)
"According to the Washington Post poll, white women are more likely than white men to say that Trump doesn't show enough respect for the people he disagrees with (74% of white women compared with 60% of white men). And far more of those white women think Trump's personality is a major problem (52% of women [...]
The Law Market and the Trump Effect
Update 20150530: More on the Gawker lawsuite in the NY Times. "As hedge funds put more resources into litigation financing, they're commodifying the practice as an investment vehicle and minimizing risk by relying less on legal instincts about a specific case and more on data. At the intersection of litigation and finance, you get people [...]
Algorithms a go-go
"... throughout The Formula, Dormehl signals that he wants us to think carefully about what it means to be human in an age where algorithms increasingly tell us who we are, what we want, and how we’ll come to behave in the future. Indeed, Dormehl goes so far as to declare that our age is [...]