I don’t want to rain on anyone’s rosehued parade. But in ancient times — five years ago — employees would also bitch about silos, poor training and productivity. Remember offices on Fridays? No, me neither. about off-site meetings because headquarters was too stultifying to produce new ideas? Sadly, yes.
Of course, coming together in the workplace can spur connections, innovation and learning. But let’s not get carried away. The office is not the solution to every workplace problem.
However, some seem to think it is — even if that view is not backed up by evidence. In her new book, Over Work, Brigid Schulte describes a leadership “echo chamber”. One expert tells her their team “was actually more productive” when working flexibly “not just in terms of hours worked, but literally in output”. They can readily demonstrate this to the CEO, but “can’t get them to listen because instead they’re listening to their fellow CEOs”. …
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𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬
𝖤𝗆𝗆𝖺 𝖩𝖺𝖼𝗈𝖻𝗌 - 𝖥𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖳𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌
Remember the good old days? When office corridors buzzed with the sound of ideas bouncing between senior executives and junior recruits? And the kitchens! New products conceived in the time it took for the kettle to boil. Not to mention all that learning. In the past, a new starter only had to sit within five yards of an experienced colleague to absorb the entire contents of their brain.
Such pre-pandemic nostalgia infused the vision laid out last week by Andy Jassy, chief executive of retailer Amazon, who ordered a full-time return to the office (RTO). In a memo, he said the move would make it easier for staff to “learn, model, practice”. It would also “strengthen our culture” while making things like brainstorming “simpler and more effective”.
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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚’𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐭
𝖲𝗂𝗆𝗈𝗇 𝖪𝗎𝗉𝖾𝗋 𝖥𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖳𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌
Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime’s clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy, which helped shape Trump’s Maga movement. (Furber denies being “Q”.)
In short, four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence.
https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282355455139348
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𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐫𝐞-𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
ATTRACTA MOONEY Financial Times
One of the world’s leading climate scientists has warned that another Donald Trump presidency in the US would imperil the chances of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C above preindustrial levels.
Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement
Johan Rockström, co-chair of the Earth Commission and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said a Trump re-election would slow the pace of the shift to cleaner energy systems that was needed to curb climate change.
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“If Trump comes into power, there will be a destruction of the IRA and we will lose pace. It will mean that the signal to the world is, at best, another four years of pause on the action,” he said.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219435163 😲October Atlantic cover
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Follow the money
The shadow realm of secret wealth and offshore tax havens is more than a nuisance for democracies — it has become a threat to their very existence. What if we just shut it all down?
Donald Trump opened Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in 1983 and occupied the penthouse himself. The building was intended to advertise its owner’s wealth, and also to attract other rich tenants — including, ironically, the very secretive rich. Trump would sell 43 condos in Manhattan’s flashiest building to shell companies based in jurisdictions such as Panama, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, which conceal corporate records. He sold another six condos, for cash, to corporations based in Delaware, which has historically had the least transparent company laws in the US....
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Learning to live with 50C temperatures
From Dubai to Mumbai, the world’s cities are having to adapt to hotter and more humid summers, but their responses have often widened economic and societal inequality.
...The Gulf is one of many regions learning how to live with extreme heat. Indian authorities have reported more than 40,000 cases of suspected heatstroke during a prolonged heatwave, and at least 110 deaths.
In Saudi Arabia this year, 1,301 pilgrims died after walking in temperatures of nearly 50C during the hajj.
But individual experiences of the searing heat in the United Arab Emirates vary according to wealth. While Mohamad and thousands of other mainly foreign workers swelter in the open, the Gulf’s vast hydrocarbon wealth has allowed its better-off residents to luxuriate in western-style cities that defy the inhospitable desert....
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How to break up with your X
Katie Martin, Financial Times:
It is time to conjure up mental images of vast herds barrelling across the dusty savannah and to proclaim, in your best whispery David Attenborough impression, that we are witnessing one of nature’s truly great and most majestic spectacles: a mass migration.
I cannot claim to understand the rainfall signals that prompt a million Serengeti wildebeest to abandon one grazing pasture and head to the next...But when it comes to the fresh wave of X users hopping over to rival networks such as Bluesky, the trigger to move on is quite straightforward.
The drip, drip of casual racism, edge lord bigotry, bad-faith polemics, dog whistles, crass disinformation, dodgy pornbots, cynical grifting, tin hat conspiracies and tiresome crypto bollocks became too much for some users of the site formerly known as Twitter fairly soon after Musk bought it in October 2022, later changing its name to X.
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