Enjoy having Microsoft use your documents to train their AI.

Eventually someone will craft documents that would poison AI training and share it to everyone to save in their OneDrive. One can hope.

We have useless management jargons designed to mislead and confuse, like "right-sizing", "let go", "efficiency", "synergize", "leverage", etc. Which really means very common words but created to make very mundane ideas sounded grand. Yes, absolutely agree these jargons hurt morale and collaboration, good luck trying to get management to change this practice.

Then there are useful technical jargons that actually means something and communicate a lot of information quickly. These HELPED collaboration among the competent employees.

And then there are also competent new employees and also incompetent ones. The competent ones light up at the proper use of technical jargons because they understand them, while the incompetent ones felt sad finding out they were incompetent.

I doubt the study is capable of distinguishing between these differences.

Is 90k more or less than that caused by the air pollution coming from the annual forest fires in Canada, California, etc?

Don't forget the scale of the Canada forest fire is enough to put Canada into the top 10 CO2 emitting countries of the world. More than the total output of over 180 other countries. I.e. it is HUGE.

There is something that can be done immediately for one of these two causes, guess which one the study investigated? And why?

You have listed all the reasons that companies must get people back in the office. /s

Over the years working in corporations, I wonder there must be some weird HR logic that was taught in secret HR training that companies hire people to suffer. If you aren't suffering enough, the company is losing its bang for the bucks they pay you.

I have seen HR policies that seemed to serve nothing except generate suffering in their employees, and if HR found stuff that people are (gasp!) enjoying at work, it will surely get shut down. Working remotely is now one of those things that HR found employees enjoy, hence it must stop.

In my experience, people do that because they either don't want that question being on the record, or they don't want the way they interact with people on the record.

Either way, they are people you don't want to interact with in the office.

This is the reason why I keep telling people not to be engaged in your job.

Your job is just a means to get a stable income, and there always other jobs out there for you. Do what you need to do and get out of your workplace. Get engaged in your hobbies, in your loved ones, in your games, or in whatever you choose except your job.

Save up enough money to last you through 6-12 months of zero income. Be prepared. Then your world will not come crashing down when some nameless VP decides to get himself a bigger bonus by laying off your whole department.

and they don't want to be told they are mediocre.

Hence if you want to engage most people, you push mediocre content to them to make them feel comfortable, so all social platforms need to reward mediocrity.

If you want to confirm this, just try to point out other people's mistakes in Facebook. See if you get a thank you or if you get flamed for it.

They thought the purpose of these trainings are to reduce the chance of getting phished? A big NO.

These trainings are there to cover the asses of management, so that when someone in the company got phished, management can point to these trainings and say "We have done all we can, we are not responsible!".

Hence, to find out if these trainings are effective, researchers should have compared how badly management was held responsible after getting phished.

The most asked question is : "How to turn it off?"

Don't Firefox devs ever thought why is that?

Industry consumes electricity, lots of it. Datacenters is just one example.

Aluminum plants consumes gobs of electricity, profitable plants usually locate next to power plants with lots of stable and cheap power, like geothermal or hydro.

I heard someone wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US, are there power plants being built to support the factories? Where are the new dams being built to give hydro power and also serve as a giant battery?

Some factories also consumes lots of fresh water, especially semiconductor fabs. Where does the water come from?

Americans will soon find out that doing things is so much more difficult than just talking about doing things.

Eventually, AI will be able to use the *original* voice (e.g. speaking Japanese) and change the language to English, with all the emotion intact. Even if the result is only passable, the cost would be so low that everyone will use it.

What these voice actors are doing is similar to harbour loaders protesting against automation. The final result is building new harbours that are 100% automated from the start, then letting the old manually loaded harbours go bust.

or you are compensated heavily based on the company's profit, it is foolish to be engaged in your job.

Your job is not your life. Your job is just a means to earn income to support your life. Being "engaged" in your job means sacrificing part of your life for free to benefit the owners of the company. Why would anyone sell themselves short?

The only exception is when you are properly compensated, see the exceptions at the top.

Use the money you earned to find fulfilment elsewhere in your life independent of your job. That way, your life will not collapse into emptiness when you lose your job or when you retire.

that a bank put up their customers' data for sale for a price, or that other companies thought they should get that data for free.

This would be similar to a Math Olympiads giving participants questions of multiplying 20-digits numbers. Or weight lifting in the Olympics where one contestant wore a powered exoskeleton to help lift the weight.

It's no wonder in those cases a machine can do it better than humans, and it only demonstrated the poor level of organizers, that they were unable to come up with good worthy questions for the participants, rather than anything about such events itself.

That's what we should call companies like Google.