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Friday Faves is our weekly blog series highlighting a few select pieces from the REG team’s reading lists. You can catch up on past Friday Faves on the archive. 

A TED series that rethinks the way we work

Jakkii says: This is one of those weeks where I really needed some sort of video or article titled ‘how to find inspiration when it’s seriously lacking everywhere you look’ or something rather more pithy. In the 11th hour, so to speak, I came across this blog post that has about 8 short videos embedded on a range of topics, like how we all benefit from paternity leave, or tips for reducing bias in the workplace.

It turned out that this was actually ‘season 4’ in this series, and there’s an additional 25 short videos across the first three seasons that you can review. If you’re like me, some of these won’t be relevant where you are right now (e.g. I’m not a parent, or trying to start a business), but they may in the future, or you might find watching them helps you relate a little more to colleagues and perhaps better equip you to support them in the workplace.

I haven’t made my way through the first three seasons yet, so if you have any favourite videos from the set – or any videos on related topics you think we’d appreciate – let me know! I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Watch: https://blog.ted.com/a-ted-series-rethinks-the-way-we-work/

At home

“I don’t know why you don’t just leave him, Elaine.” http://pic.twitter.com/ql8eeyuB8w

— Uncle Duke (@UncleDuke1969) November 16, 2021

Jakkii says: We’re really on the countdown to the end of 2021 now – only 5 Fridays before Christmas and 6 Fridays left in the year! Vax rates continue to climb, restrictions continue to ease in some places while others are a bit different – whatever the situation is like where you are, here’s another few things to read and do at home this week.

• Learn how to re-waterproof your old rain jacket

• Explore the Lost History of the Internet

• Visit this free online library of audiobooks

• Time travel with words via Merriam Webster’s Time Traveller tool

• Find out how to actually get inspired by the farmers market

• Take a 3D virtual tour of the Museum of Computing

• Put those brain cells to work with online trivia by Isolation Trivia (tonight, 6.30pm QLD time) and Townie Music Trivia (Thursday, 8pm NSW time).

Friday Fives

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Hybrid workplace and the future of work

• The state of hybrid work: new insights from global survey

• As companies unfurl future-of-work plans, speed bumps remain

• How younger workers’ preferences and workstyles will define the future workplace

• What managers need to do to ensure performance in a hybrid workforce

• The death of the workplace as we know it may have been exaggerated

Remote work and the digital workplace

• Working from home makes many feel ‘invisible’

• How to convince your boss to let you keep working from home

• Indiana city offers stand-in ‘grandparents’ to new residents to attract remote workers

• Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work in ‘game changer’ remote work law

• Slack is working on new ways to measure remote worker productivity

Communication, collaboration, engagement, and culture

• Why you need an emotional-support network at work

• 5 new rules for leading a hybrid team

• 3 simple ways to cultivate trust among your entire team

• Why diversity within your organisation matters

• [Video] Collaboration in the hybrid workplace

Community management, moderation and misinformation

• The secret to great online communities

• Facebook isn’t telling you how popular right-wing content is on the platform

• TikTok and Instagram campaign aims to tackle Covid jab misinformation

• Choosing moderators & leaders in your community

• Facebook says harassment in Metaverse is ‘existential threat’ but moderation is ‘practically impossible’

Privacy, data, safety and security

• TikTok conducts new research into harmful trends and challenges with a view to improving safety measures

• Instagram’s effects on children are being investigated by coalition of states

• Amazon allowed major breaches in customer data protection, alleges ex-chief of InfoSec

• Another Intel chip flaw puts a slew of gadgets at risk

• DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps from tracking you on Android

Big Tech, tech and regulation

• Microsoft Mesh and its place in Microsoft’s Metaverse ambitions

• 3 years after the Project Maven uproar, Google cosies up to the Pentagon

• Facebook reaches for more realistic VR with haptic gloves

• ConstitutionDAO’s crowdfunded crypto-bid loses $43 million auction of rare US Constitution copy

• Latest from the Twittersphere: stock indexes to track most-hyped companies

Social media

• What’s the deal with fictional influencers?

• How Twitter got research right

• Facebook asked users what content was “good” or “bad for the world.” some of the results were shocking.

• The niche effect: How non-traditional brands are are connecting with avid fans on TikTok

• Why LinkedIn is the one good social network

Extras

[me arriving late to things] sorry supply chain problems

— Delia Cai (@delia_cai) November 17, 2021

This is interesting: How the Black girl gamers community became a lifeline

Things that make you go hmmm: The methods of moral panic journalism

Space: The space debris problem is getting dangerous

Podcast: God and robots: Will AI transform religion?

Friday playlist: You and your dog named Timothée Chalamet are at the dog park and no one’s around

Sydney Business Insights – The Future, This Week podcast

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This week: all the numbers of climate change and what they mean from the COP26 in Glasgow, with our expert Professor Christopher Wright.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

Our guest this week

Professor Christopher Wright

Christopher’s blog: Climate, People & Organizations

Christopher’s recent article on the IPCC report

Christopher’s article with Michael E. Mann about COP26

Christopher’s book chapter on fossil fuel industry and climate crisis

The stories this week

02:28 – the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)

The numbers this week

415ppm – the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide

1.5ºC – the target from the 2015 Paris Agreement

60th – the ranking given to Australia’s climate policy in the Climate Change Performance Index

Listen: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-numbers-of-climate-change-and-cop26-on-the-future-this-week/