Jim 👨🏼‍✈️

UK HR & Employment Law. Workplace mediator. Fellow of British Computer Society. Teaches conflict psychology & people management. Used to fly planes.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

Does anyone else find it irritating when the post author follows up with a bunch of comments that link to other entirely unrelated posts of theirs, just to drive additional engagement?

It peeves me. Read a post, go to the comments & the first 6 or so are their own shitposts.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

I was just asked by a journo for my comments on this study...

I agree that the decline in entry-level white collar jobs has been misattributed to AI, but while there is a correlation to rise of WFH, I think there's more to the picture (which, in fairness, may have been beyond the scope of the study which I am *not* criticising).

While GenAI is unlikely to eliminate entry-level roles entirely, it will reduce the number of vacancies, as employers will need fewer human workers to supervise the automation. However, I would agree that it's too soon for this effect to be significant. It will happen, but that wave has yet to hit the beach.

The study suggests that if WFH makes it harder to monitor effort or interpret output, firms might be reluctant to hire early-career workers. In support of this suggestion, the study cites a Holmstrom paper from 1982, but that paper significantly predates modern home working technology and the various internet-based collaboration tools which facilitate hybrid working and the management of remote workers.

There are far fewer practical barriers to on-the-job learning for home workers, and nothing to prevent employers requiring new hires to spend time in the office until they've demonstrated their capabilities before being allowed to spend more time working from home. Indeed, the study cited Aksoy et al (2025) which showed that in-person onboarded raised later productivity, even in a fully remote firm.

Also, the study focused on roles potentially exposed to GenAI, but the decline in entry level roles isn't constrained to those most easily done from home. There have been sharp declines in on-site and customer facing roles too in a number of sectors.

There have been significant changes in employers costs, increasing National Insurance and wage bills, together with much shorter intervals before unfair dismissal protections kick in.

This means that employers are more risk-averse to hiring younger workers with no demonstrable experience, and this affects those work from home roles as well, and that's exactly what employers are telling me - nobody is telling me WFH is a factor (my sample size is too small to be statistically significant but aligns with what other sources are hearing).

Again, these other influences may not have been within the scope of the study, so no criticism is intended. It's interesting work!

[Peter John Lambert @pj_lambert]

Is GenAI causing the relative decline in early-career hiring? Our latest research finds that these effects may be conflated with another important driver: the rise of WFH arrangements (1/N)

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

One of the most annoying things about Windows...

You click on a file name in the folder in order to rename it. The file name is highlighted. You click to put the cursor in the position where you want to edit the file name. In the tiny interval between clicking and then typing on the keyboard, Windows re-highlights the file name so that your first keypress deletes the entire file name instead of inserting a character.

Grrr.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@CrumblyWhinges That's not easy, though. DEI can cover broad ground. For example, it includes all protected characteristics, not just some of them, as well as prohibited conduct against all those characteristics. Trying to remove DEI from EQA 2010 would have undesirable consequences for many.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

When certain politicians talk about abolishing the Equality Act, these are the sorts of letters that would be lawful without it.

[Annie Bishop @AnnieBishop123]

We’ve come a long way baby or at least we thought we had. I found this letter in the house that I bought

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@ph7litmus I think its unlikely the EQA would be abolished in practice but, if it were, something would have to fill the void and the debate on what that should cover would be interesting to put it mildly.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@HoraceSpellman9 @AudreySuffolk Well yes, but the point was to illustrate what happens when such protections are removed. The 1975 sex discrimination act was repealed when replaced by the EQA.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@kanchanmehta01 Make up is like perfume; less is more. Subtle, nuanced use enhances but plastering it on detracts.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@welshtoonfan Havana House in Windsor near me has an indoor cigar lounge, it’s very comfortable. Last time I was there, they had a presentation from Plantation rum; three cigar samplers each with a different rum to try. Lovely!

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@TitusBland @BuyEnglishMade Amazon sells this under their ‘by Amazon’ brand. Nice and cheap too.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@VidGates @Isaac2003_v2 Go for it! From Inverness to Fort William and then if you’re up for it follow the coastline all the way round to Inverness. There’s some beautiful scenery, some of it a desolate beauty, plus friendly B&Bs and camping fields in small coastal villages. It’s wonderful!

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@VidGates @Isaac2003_v2 Aviemore for the snow sports but that’s just in 9 on the map, I think.

I toured and camped in the summer and it was gorgeous, all the way up to Lairg and Tongue then along and back south through Ullapool.

Yeah there were midges but I didn’t care 😅

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

Figure 11

[Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺 @MbarkCherguia]

What do you call someone who does this?

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@VidGates @Isaac2003_v2 Yep, loved touring around that area years ago and would probably be my first choice.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@welshtoonfan @harvest Yeah it’s just like you said earlier; all these little subscriptions here and there…bank account slowly bleeding out without us noticing

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

Currently I pay $129 per year to @harvest - but from 1 July they want me to pay over $600 per year!?!?

So, that's not going to happen. Either I get a favourable reply to my support ticket objecting to this, or I migrate to another platform.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@welshtoonfan @harvest That would make my blood boil. What a bunch of w⚓️s they are!

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@welshtoonfan @harvest This is actually why I prefer direct debit, as you can cancel DD's from within your banking app, but you normally have no way to prevent someone re-billing against your card details.

From now on I'll now use virtual cards which can be frozen/stopped.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@welshtoonfan @harvest Many now charge extra for AI features I don't want or need, often without the option to say "no thanks".

I'll just add "projects" (which includes task/time tracking and invoicing) to my existing Xero subscription & cancel. I refuse to accept a near 500% subscription increase.

[Jim 👨🏼‍✈️ @JimQbert]

@lilfloo The question has already been answered by others but I will add something that probably is affected by zero G…acid reflux. A hiatus hernia must be a bitch in space!