16 Feb Bail-ins & Unsecured Creditors – Are You Ready?
[buzzsprout episode='12225671' player='true'] "We want them to have full faith and confidence in the banking system...
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15 Feb Hiring & the cult of personality
Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay When do terms like "cultural fit" and "hire for personality" become code for "ONE OF US...
14 Feb “Too rigid with flexibility” 🤦🏻♀️
Image by ErikaWittlieb from Pixabay "In 2023, even the most carefully thought-out hybrid work plan can be undercut if bosses get 'too rigid with flexibility.' Ajay Banga, vice chairman at growth equity investor General Atlantic, thinks that’s the obvious snag in the new remote work era. " -https://fortune.com/2023/02/12/hybrid-work-balance-ajay-banga-mastercard/ What? Too rigid...
13 Feb Get back in the cube, dammit!
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay We know you enjoy WFH but just get back in the cube already, dammit. "Big cities feeling cost of slow RTO By Cate Chapman, Editor at LinkedIn News The in-office workweek still stands at about three days in megacities such as New York, despite mandates to return....
13 Feb Bonus Episode: Is the future filled with dead-end jobs?
[buzzsprout episode='12212210' player='true'] In a recent video, Russell Brand jokes about robots escorting you back to your dead-end job. And it certainly made me wonder: is the future filled with dead-end jobs? Is that what we all have to look forward to? And what constitutes a dead-end...
12 Feb It’s not paranoia if it’s real!
https://fortune.com/2023/02/02/bosses-monitoring-workers-productivity-paranoia-backfiring Ya don't say! "As white-collar workers enjoy a bit of distance from the office, some employers have taken to spying on them to make sure work is getting done. Eight of 10 major private employers in the U.S. are tracking productivity, the New York Times revealed...
11 Feb Saturday Broadcast 35
[buzzsprout episode='12183180' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/4 - 2/10. ✔️What's going on with the "spy" balloon? ✔️Are bail-ins on the horizon? ✔️"You don’t have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years." 😂 ✔️Supposedly, hiring is still robust and the...
10 Feb “Eye-popping jobs report”
Image created by me using Canva. An eye-popping jobs report. Yeah, I'd say so. Eye popping in how bogus it is, in my opinion. "The resilience of the labor market in the face of rising interest rates and stubborn inflation continues to surprise economists. The U.S. economy...
09 Feb “No place to hide” but does anyone care?
[buzzsprout episode='12155437' player='true'] In 2014, Glenn Greenwald published No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. The book became a NYT Bestseller but now, almost a decade later, does anyone care? Links: https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english https://www.amazon.com/MindWar-Michael-Aquino-Ph-D/dp/1535199563 Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/ Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/ Transcription by Otter.ai. Please...
08 Feb Sometimes the story writes itself
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/feb/3/nsa-wooing-thousands-laid-big-tech-workers-spy-age/ Apparently my reading of No Place to Hide all these years later was more prescient than even I could have guessed. "The National Security Agency is doggedly courting laid-off Big Tech workers as the spy agency undertakes one of its largest hiring surges in the last...