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M-Theory: In uncertain times, who's got your back?
20 April 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Columnist Melanie Baker looks at the role trust and reliability play in the workplace, and how tech layoffs and the COVID pandemic have prompted some of us to wonder who has our backs at work. Read more
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M-Theory: The inconvenient truth about convenience
06 April 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Columnist Melanie Baker looks at the impacts on people's careers when their managers make decisions that place their own convenience over the needs of the employee or the organization. Read more
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Tech Roundup for March 2023
02 April 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Monthly tech roundup, News
Communitech's monthly collection of tech news highlights for Waterloo Region and Canada during March 2023. Read more
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M-Theory: The risk of getting lost in translation
23 March 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Columnist Melanie Baker looks at the importance of careful translation and localization when doing business internationally. Read more
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M-Theory: Privacy and the price we pay
09 March 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
In her latest column, Melanie Baker takes a critical look at how personal data privacy has become a paid feature, rather than a default entitlement, on many tech platforms. Read more
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Roundup for February 2023
05 March 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, Monthly tech roundup, News
A digest of Waterloo Region tech news from February 2023. Read more
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M-Theory: How not to execute layoffs
23 February 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Layoffs are traumatic at the best of times, but executives easily can, and do, make things worse. In her latest column, Melanie Baker touches on some of the more egregious recent examples of poorly handled… Read more
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M-Theory: What's love got to do with work?
09 February 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Mounting tech layoffs are damaging trust in the workplace, especially at companies that sold a narrative of "family" to attract talent. Columnist Melanie Baker looks at how trust will become the new currency… Read more
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Roundup for January 2023
05 February 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, Monthly tech roundup, News
A digest of tech news from the Waterloo Region ecosystem for January 2023. Read more
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M-Theory: What are you running toward?
26 January 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
With layoffs mounting in the tech sector, columnist Melanie Baker takes a look at how upheaval in the labour market is prompting people to take stock of their working lives and, in some cases, quit their… Read more