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An anonymous reader writes: Meetings at work should be seen as a form of "therapy" rather than about decision-making, say researchers. Academics from the University of Malmo in Sweden say meetings provide an outlet for people at work to show off their status or to express frustration. Professor Patrik Hall says they are becoming increasingly frequent — as more managerial and "strategy" jobs generate more meetings. But he says despite there being more meetings "few decisions are made." Prof Hall has investigated an apparent contradiction in how people can have a low opinion of work meetings, yet their numbers keep increasing.
The political scientist says the rise in meetings reflects changes in the workforce — with fewer people doing and making things and an increase in those involved in "meetings-intense" roles such as strategists, advisers, consultants and managers. "People don't do concrete things any more," he says. Instead he says there has been a rise of managerial roles, which are often not very well defined, and where "the hierarchy is not that clear." [...] Meetings can "arouse feelings of meaninglessness," he says. But he argues that is often missing their point. Once in a meeting — particularly long ones — their function can become "almost therapeutic."
An anonymous reader writes: More than 60% of Americans think it’s impossible to go through daily life without being tracked by companies or the government, according to a new Pew Research study. It’s not just that Americans (correctly) think companies are collecting their data. They don’t like it. About 69% of Americans are skeptical that companies will use their private information in a way they’re comfortable with, while 79% don’t believe that companies will come clean if they misuse the information. When it comes to who they trust, there are differences by race. About 73% of black Americans, for instance, are at least a little worried about what law enforcement knows about them, compared with 56% of white Americans. But among all respondents, more than 80% were concerned about what social-media sites and advertisers might know. Despite these concerns, more than 80% of Americans feel they have no control over how their information is collected.
An anonymous reader writes: Google is getting rid of one of its best-known workplace features: TGIF, its weekly all-hands meeting. The company confirmed to CNBC that it will instead hold monthly all-hands meetings that will be focused on business and strategy while holding separate town halls for “workplace issues.” An email announcing the change was previously reported by The Verge.
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started TGIFs in 1999 as a forum where employees could regularly express concerns and discuss topics open and freely with management. At that time, the company was small enough to fit in a meeting room, but the all-hands continued to grow as the employee base grew — until recently, that is. Page and Brin stopped attending regularly in 2019. A company spokesperson said that the meetings had recently become a bi-weekly instead of weekly occurrence. The new model comes as the company cracks down on the open work culture that’s long been part of its identity of holding free discussion. Employees have increasingly voiced their concerns about everything from the handling of sexual harassment to government hires and contracts. In recent months, employees have leaked meeting notes to the media, which have shown growing tension between executives and workers.
...infrastructure or education or M4A or climate change/GND, the first paragraph would be filled with "oh-how-are-we-going-to-pay-for-it" hand-wringing. But it's about the military and star wars to boot, so who cares where the $ comes from? We'll just find it.
I go to a few "scrums" per week - I'll be at one later today and I'm looking forward to it the way I do for my next visit to the dentist. They're no different from the RUP, Waterfall, or no-method project meetings I've been to over 20+ yrs. I could turn on sports TV for a few minutes and come up with language for a new methodology that I could powerpoint and profit from ("Aggressive," "Exit Velo," "Dominant," "Launch Angle"...)
I'm one of those masochists involved in the "Insider" program, so the damned thing regularly updates and restarts quite often. I shut it down manually when one of the updates clearly caused trouble, which is not uncommon. Does shutdown actually clear sys cache more effectively than mere restart? Beats me, I just do it when there seems no other option.
I'm also wondering about that: could it be done from voice recordings of Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck? Maybe even Joyce? Can you imagine Ulysses read in the author's voice?
Remember the ST Voyager ep where they build the Delta Flyer shuttlecraft and Tom outfits it with mechanical switches and controls and Tuvok ridicules him for replacing the obviously more sophisticated and precise touchscreens?
