It’s the classic conundrum for workers. If you’re the most productive member of your team, what’s your reward? 
More work. 
If you’re the most productive member of your team using AI, what’s your reward? 
More work, while being more isolated, to work with the AI. 
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Perhaps we should include a bullet point or two in our business continuity plans for addressing AI outages. Of course, we might also consider the continuity plan for AI tools, or any SAAS solution, going under as well. It’s just good risk management.
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Tom O’Connor was kind enough to ask me to record an interview with him to answer some questions and provide direction on M365 and recent developments that impact eDiscovery professionals.
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This is the logical next step in the escalation between website publishers and AI scrapers, right?
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I get it. Many places likely won’t bother checking your references. However, some will, and can you afford to miss an opportunity because you didn’t consider who you were listing as a reference, or weren’t sure what they would say about you? 
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There are people around us every day dealing with burdens we have no clue about. This includes people who work for you. Those burdens don’t disappear the second they cross the threshold into the workplace. They come to work with us, and they have an impact on us. Caring workplaces find ways to help, not…

The challenge, of course, is who is driving the strategy? If firm leadership isn’t driving it, you could wind up with AI adoption being pushed from the ground up, and strategic decisions being left to IT personnel or a Tech committee that lacks the authority to make those decisions. In the vacuum of leadership on…

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My advice to you is to find the content that gives you hope, even if it’s just content that makes you laugh. We need more of that and a lot less outrage. 
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The culture you describe would be working toward solutions to the epidemic of burnout and anxiety. Especially the stress that results from financial instability, caregiving responsibilities, and discrimination, to name a few. A good workplace culture addresses these issues by providing a living wage, flexibility, and equal opportunities, among other benefits related to quality mental…

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