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Andrzej Wojcicki/Getty ImagesIt's easy to feel disturbed these days, even if you're still working from home.more Technically Incorrect The notifications are constant. The pings ring in your ears, leaving a nasty echo.And then there's the spying.When the pandemic struck, companies worried that they couldn't observe their employees in the way they used to. They couldn't loom over them, see how long they took for lunch -- or a bathroom break. It's frustrating being a boss and not having total control. You're supposed to…

Image: iStock/Drazen ZigicA new survey by Microsoft has found that 87% of workers feel they're just as efficient at home as in the office, but the vast majority of bosses disagree. Some 85% of business leaders suspect their workers are shirking at home while only 12% of them have "full confidence" their employees are being productive, according to the results of Microsoft's survey of 20,000 people in 11 countries. As companies begin to entice or pull workers back to the office full-time or on a hybrid basis,…

Hannah Thatcher has hired two employees to her engineering team since early 2020. She says she made clear to them in the interview process that they should take their accrued time off, put work devices away after hours and not be shy about asking for a mental-health day.“I like to make my expectations pretty clear early on,” Ms. Thatcher said. “Their time off is their time off—and it will be respected.” Many workers are focusing more of their attention on family and nonwork pursuits, and some job seekers are…

In the battle against “quiet quitting” and other obstacles to productivity in the workplace, companies are increasingly turning to an array of sophisticated tools to watch and analyze how employees do their jobs. The sobering news for America’s bosses: These technologies can fall short of their promises, and even be counterproductive. Patchy evidence for the effectiveness of workplace monitoring tech hasn’t stopped it from sweeping through U.S. companies over the past 2½ years. Since the start of the pandemic, one in…

The six-week-long public exchange between studios and a collective of showrunners over abortion access for Hollywood workers has reached a détente of sorts. “While there is still much work to be done, we can share that all nine studios we contacted (Amazon, AMC, Apple TV+, CBS/Paramount, Disney, Lionsgate, NBCU, Netflix and Warner Brothers Discovery) are engaging directly and individually with us to address the immediate need for safety, privacy and legal protections for their employees,” the unnamed…

–MinhazFahme writes prose about Melania of Elden Ring. –PhilsPhindings discusses the similarities between the soundtrack of Dr. Mario and Caribbean music. -PhilsPhindings looks at the huge variety of influences in the Mega Man soundtracks. –ChronoLynxx opens this week’s TGIF community thread for random discussions. A slim selection of blogs this week, but it’s cool — this happens sometimes and we appreciate each and every one of them. Thanks to Lord Spencer, as always, for providing this week’s recap. If you…

Labor Day marks the line in the corporate sand.Many company leaders say the end-of-summer holiday represents the best chance to finally lean on workers to return to the office this year. After months of encouraging white-collar employees to return, or attempting to coax them back with free pizza, warm cookies and catered lunches, many executives now say they feel emboldened to take a tougher stance. No longer can workers merely come to the office if they so choose; this fall, executives say, attendance is…

From Enron and Tyco through to WorldCom and Lehman Brothers, the world’s biggest corporate collapses usually have one thing in common: power hungry bosses. Credit: Shutterstock Most people have dealt with power-hungry bosses at one time or another. …

Dwayne Johnson has said he had to go against the grain in a big way after joining the DC universe.Johnson was cast as DC character Black Adam, a villain that is set to face Zachary Levi’s Shazam in a forthcoming film.Shazam had a standalone film, released in 201. Black Adam was originally set to be introduced in the same film – something that Johnson didn’t like.“When the first draft of the movie came to us, it was a combination of Black Adam and Shazam: two origin stories in one movie,” the actor told Vanity Fair. “Now…

Dwayne Johnson has said he had to go against the grain in a big way after joining the DC universe.Johnson was cast as DC character Black Adam, a villain that is set to face Zachary Levi’s Shazam in a forthcoming film.Shazam had a standalone film, released in 201. Black Adam was originally set to be introduced in the same film – something that Johnson didn’t like.“When the first draft of the movie came to us, it was a combination of Black Adam and Shazam: two origin stories in one movie,” the actor told Vanity Fair. “Now…