Entering July, the deadest time of the summer when typical faculty are not actually on payroll and many are trying to get some downtime, I wake up to an email informing me I have compulsory training to complete on the prevention of cybercrime. Fine, another run through a set of packaged ‘lessons’ with associated tests that most of us view with minor annoyance. That’s the world we live in but what’s majorly annoying is I am told I have to complete these within 4 weeks if I am to remain ‘in compliance’ with my job. Are there other positions where we mandate employees to complete training on their own time?
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information