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What Your Boss (and HR) Say When They Think You're Not In the Room

Today, I attended a webinar on "Capability and Ill-health in the Workplace". It was hosted by a corporate insurer who provides HR consultancy services. Those attending were business leaders and HR representatives, and the Q&A at the end made it clear they believed they were only in a "room" with other leaders and HR reps. Their attitudes around long-term ill health and disability were immediately presented as: . This is an intolerable and ridiculous burden to us as employers . This is too expensive . These people are taking the piss . It's not going to be fair to able-bodied people who have to pick up their slack. This is also the attitude I've personally, directly encountered as someone trying to work whilst also being disabled. It's the attitude that lost me my last job - a job I mostly enjoyed, and a role I'd hoped to build a career from. Employers. HATE. Disabled. And. Chronically. Ill. Employees. They do not want to employ disabled p...

Forget Retirement Planning, and Turn to Honour Planning

The current trend of advice and focus, particularly financial advice and focus, is "sacrifice, go all in on work, work, work, save and invest through your 20s and 30s, which is the best decades of your life for compound growth! so you can have an absolutely amazing retirement, with enough money to do everything you want, and not worry about money, because there won't be social security!" This feeds into a wider toxic focus of positioning work as "the thing that exists in opposition to the life we deserve to live." In reality, work is part of life. Retirement is actually the thing that exists in opposition to life. The vision that's being sold is "if you sacrifice all fun and socialising, and just grind through your 20s and 30s, you'll get to have this wonderful, rewarding retirement" - but the reality is, many of us will not be in good enough health by the time we reach our 60s or 70s to actually do much of anything. Many of u...

How Do I Treat Trans Staff Following the Supreme Court's Ruling?

The Supreme Court's recent ruling that "woman" refers to "someone who was biologically female at birth" only directly connects to roles specifically reserved for women , which have to follow a specific process to authorise gender exclusion against men. It does not mean "I want my organisation to be female-dominant, so I don't have to employ trans women anymore!" Nor does it mean that you "aren't allowed" to continue respecting the gender - and names and pronouns - of trans people who currently work for you, and those you "don't think look like women" - who probably actually aren't trans. For Boards, who are being legally obliged towards demonstrating equity, the real diversity is diversity of approach. Here at The Productive Pessimist , we work very much in alignment with Leandro Herrero 's style of management - and very much agree with his statement: "If you have two people who think exactly the sam...

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