Category: Opinion
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Over the last few years I’ve spent a lot of time wondering what I’m missing about return to office mandates. What study are senior leaders absorbing that perhaps isn’t publicly available, what hidden metric are we optimising for that requires a particular level of insight I don’t yet possess, what possible benefit could there be…
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It’s annual review season and I received my usual slightly puzzling feedback that I work too hard and care too much. Only this time, something finally shifted when I had ChatGPT analyse my review and recommend this year’s personal development goals. Instead of the ‘try to slow down’, ‘don’t take on too much’, ‘it isn’t…
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A couple of weekends ago I was with a group of friends and one mentioned they were currently reading ‘Bullshit Jobs’ by David Graeber. I said it sounded great and his reply was: “Careful Becca, you’re a middle manager, you’ll probably realise you, like me, have a bullshit job.” I was willing to take the…
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I am fortunate enough to be someone who benefited enormously from the shift to remote work that came from the COVID19 pandemic. I had always found commuting to be a challenge for both my mental and physical health. When I worked for Mind, I commuted 4.5 hours a day from Brighton to East London. It…
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Two years ago I made the decision to leave the charity sector and, due to Covid, I’ve actually managed to have three jobs in that time, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on my assumptions going in and share a few surprises I’ve found since making the change. We value quantity over…
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I was on holiday in Africa this week, leaving product behind and heading for the mountains and the sun. Whenever I’m away I tend to keep a sneaky eye on anything involving developers, because issues that arise there are usually the most complicated to fix, and I’m the one who knows what shade of yellow…
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Over a year ago now, I blogged about Samaritans Radar, a tool created by the charity that caused a lot of controversy amongst the strong mental health community on Twitter and elsewhere. I agreed with a lot of the issues people raised, though for me privacy wasn’t top of the agenda, my worry was more…
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Every now and then, wherever I work, I have to brace myself for “could you advertise these jobs?” or “could you share this blog from the CEO?” These are both pretty routine things and shouldn’t involve setting aside half a day to argue with people on social media, but invariably they do. Charity spending, lobbying,…
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