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Dell Workers Can Stay Remote - But They're Not Going to Get PromotedPosted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:54PM from the remote-chances dept."Dell's strict new RTO mandate excludes fully remote workers from promotion," reports Business Insider.The site calls it "one of the most abrupt changes to remote work policies," noting that Dell "has had a hybrid working culture in place for more than a decade — long before the pandemic struck."Citar"Dell cared about the work, not the location," a senior employee at Dell who's worked remotely for more than a decade, told Business Insider last month. "I would say 10% to 15% of every team was remote." That flexibility has enabled staff to sustain their careers in the face of major life changes, several employees told BI. It has also helped Dell to be placed on the "Best Place to Work for Disability Equality Index" since 2018. But in February Dell introduced a strict return-to-office mandate, with punitive measures for those who want to stay at home.Under the new policy, staff were told that from May almost all will be classified as either "hybrid," or "remote." Hybrid workers will be required to come into an "approved" office at least 39 days a quarter — the equivalent of about three days a week, internal documents seen by BI show. If they want to keep working from home, staff can opt to go fully remote. But that option has a downside: fully remote workers will not be considered for promotion, or be able to change roles.Workers have said Dell's approach might be intended to lower headcount without having to pay severance by inducing some employees to quit. But reached by Business Insider for a comment, Dell defended their approach as instead "critical to drive innovation and value differentiation."But Professor Cary Cooper, an organizational psychologist and cofounder of the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at work, tells the site Dell could be following a "pack mentality" among tech companies — or reacting to a sluggish world economy. "Senior execs somehow think that people in the office are more productive than at home, even though there's no evidence to back that up."Business Insider added that Dell's approach "differs from founder and CEO Michael Dell's previous support for remote workers," who famously said "If you are counting on forced hours spent in a traditional office to create collaboration and provide a feeling of belonging within your organization, you're doing it wrong."
"Dell cared about the work, not the location," a senior employee at Dell who's worked remotely for more than a decade, told Business Insider last month. "I would say 10% to 15% of every team was remote." That flexibility has enabled staff to sustain their careers in the face of major life changes, several employees told BI. It has also helped Dell to be placed on the "Best Place to Work for Disability Equality Index" since 2018. But in February Dell introduced a strict return-to-office mandate, with punitive measures for those who want to stay at home.Under the new policy, staff were told that from May almost all will be classified as either "hybrid," or "remote." Hybrid workers will be required to come into an "approved" office at least 39 days a quarter — the equivalent of about three days a week, internal documents seen by BI show. If they want to keep working from home, staff can opt to go fully remote. But that option has a downside: fully remote workers will not be considered for promotion, or be able to change roles.
Cita de: CHOSEN en Marzo 17, 2024, 21:21:21 pm¿Porqué Margarita Robles se posiciona tan obscenamente en un conflicto que afecta a dos países extranjeros?¿Ésto es la diplomacia española y europea? Están comprados y/o amenazados.Sino no se explica.No, simplemente respetan la jerarquía. Arriba ya está decidido. Esto es un poco como el mundo corporativo.Por cierto, ¿Alguien sabe cómo acabo lo de los bonos de guerra de la IIGM?¿Hubo un simpa o algo parecido?.
¿Porqué Margarita Robles se posiciona tan obscenamente en un conflicto que afecta a dos países extranjeros?¿Ésto es la diplomacia española y europea? Están comprados y/o amenazados.Sino no se explica.
The elusive search for economic transformationThe bigger the challenges the UK faces in restoring its fortunes, the more timid politicians seem to becomeIf the UK’s real gross domestic product per head had continued on its 1955-2008 path, it would now be 39 per cent higher. I made this point in a column on Jeremy Hunt’s recent Budget. This performance is dreadful. But it is far from unique. France has been doing about as badly.In the long run, continued stagnation creates severe social and political challenges: higher taxes; worsening quality of public services; pervasive disappointment; and zero-sum struggles for advantage. The country definitely needs an economic transformation.Fortunately, such shifts have happened in the past. The questions raised by Economic Transformation: Lessons from History, a new report from Policy Exchange by Roger Bootle and James Vitali, is what lessons can be drawn from them and whether they are relevant to the situation of the UK and many other high-income countries now.Cross-country studies of this kind, which involve historical judgment, not mere manipulation of vast databases, have a distinguished history. One of the most influential was Industry and Trade in some Developing Countries, by Ian Little, Maurice Scott and Tibor Scitovsky. But this book’s chosen cases were even more heterogeneous: Thatcher’s Britain; postwar Germany and France; Ireland (the Celtic Tiger); post-communist Poland; South Korea after 1963; Hong Kong; and Singapore. We have countries recovering from war and those enjoying peace, countries with vast catch-up potential and those already quite close to the productivity frontier; autocracies and democracies; small countries and considerably bigger ones.Can anything be learnt from such a variegated group? Is what can be learnt relevant to the UK?The authors suggest 10 lessons: a strategy is needed; transformation requires a package of measures; fiscal prudence is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for success; low inflation, too, is helpful, but not decisive; tax can matter, but not always; high rates of investment are critical, which also necessitates high rates of saving; fierce competition; a focus on microeconomic measures; strong leadership, but with a team, rather than one individual; and, finally, both early success and a compelling vision, to retain political support.This list is broad. But it is quite useful from the UK’s present viewpoint. Here are just four relevant points.First, savings are staggeringly low. In 2023, for example, the share of national savings in GDP was 14 per cent. If investment is to rise, as it must, to deliver faster (and sustainable) growth, so must savings. Where is the strategy for that? One answer must be to raise substantially the standard contribution rate for pensions.Second, competition does not seem to be anything like as strong as one would wish. A fascinating new paper on “The Shrouded Economy” from the Behavioural Insights Team provides compelling evidence that among the big problems is the (often deliberately created) inability of purchasers to compare value for money among available goods and services. Membership of the EU single market, a project that Margaret Thatcher championed as premier, improved competition in the UK economy.Third, there is a list of microeconomic reforms that simply must be made. Among the most obvious is planning reform and, as a result, better use of land. Needless to say, the failure to deal with this binding constraint had nothing to do with membership of the EU. One consequence of these constraints is the high costs of building infrastructure. Yet another priority is reform of pension and capital markets, in order better to support innovation and expansion of dynamic new enterprises.Finally, as the report rightly notes, significant reform demands leadership with a long-term strategic vision. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the current debate is the huge gulf between the urgency of the situation and the response. The bigger the challenges, the more timid politicians seem to have become. Worse, Brexit and a host of cultural and identity issues have taken almost all the air out of the needed debate on the country’s economic future. Sir Keir Starmer presumably feels that leaving the governing party to conduct its circular firing squad is wise politics. But it is also likely to be foolish strategy. He is not going to have a mandate for the radical changes that are necessary.I do not entirely agree with the authors. In retrospect, the Thatcher era proved far less transformative than they suggest: performance did not improve much in the UK; it rather worsened in peer countries, such as France. But their lesson is that big changes are possible, especially once things are bad enough. Are they not bad enough yet? I hope they are.
@emmafildesBased on @rightmove House Price Index. Sellers misinterpret a 13% increase in sales and renewed buyer interest, up 8% on last year, by applying an average 1.5% increase on newly marketed asking prices in March 2024.Optimism is highest amongst those with bigger properties, who hope to regain some of the value promised in 2022 after 2023 rates chipped away at their price. Sellers in this bracket increased their initial asking price by 2.9% on February listings. This misplaced confidence could lead to a drawn out marketing period, with numerous price reductions, before securing a buyer. This is demonstrated in the average time to agree a sale, currently sitting at 73 days in London and 71 out of the Capital.For those looking to move, realism is best applied to asking prices when hoping to secure a buyer.7:50 am · 18 Mar 2024 · 1,923 Views
Eurozone monthly trade surplus rises to record highThe eurozone’s monthly trade surplus rose to a record high at the start of the year thanks to a sharp drop in the price of energy imports and an uptick in exports.The balance of trade in goods for the single currency zone reached a surplus of €28bn in January, its highest level since the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat started tracking the data in 2002.The rebound is good news for the European economy as it underlines how the massive terms of trade shock caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are being unwound.Last year, the eurozone recorded a trade surplus of €64bn, a marked improvement from the record €335bn trade deficit it suffered in 2022.
Fed will have to keep rates high for longer than markets anticipate, say economistsFT-Chicago Booth poll suggests bank will make two or fewer cuts this year, with the first between July and SeptemberThe Federal Reserve will be forced to hold interest rates at a high level for longer than markets and central bankers anticipate, according to academic economists polled by the Financial Times.More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the FT-Chicago Booth poll think the Fed will make two or fewer cuts this year as it struggles to complete the “last mile” of its battle with inflation. The most popular response for the timing of the first cut was split between July and September.(...)Vincent Reinhart, a former Fed official who is now chief economist at Dreyfus and Mellon, thinks the political calendar will influence rate-setters.“The data say the best time to cut rates is September, but the politics say June,” said Reinhart, who did not participate in the poll. “You don’t want to start cuts that close to an election.”(...)
Cita de: Cadavre Exquis en Marzo 17, 2024, 20:19:26 pmMientras aborden la demografia por el ángulo del conflicto de género no vamos a resolver nada, porque no vemos el problema-la alternativa no es hijos o trabajo-No se puede equiparar un dato biologico con un dato sociolaboral-El ángulo correcto es recalificar el trabajo, no el género-
¿No han colgado hombres con la cabeza hacia abajo, los han ahogado en sacos, los han crucificado en tablas, los han enterrado vivos, los han aplastado con morteros?¿No los han obligado a consumir las heces?Y, después de haberlos desollado con el látigo, ¿no los han arrojado vivos para ser devorados por gusanos o sobre hormigueros, o los han atado a estacas en el pantano para ser devorados por mosquitos? ¿No los han echado en calderos de jarabe de caña hirviendo?¿No han puesto hombres y mujeres dentro de barriles tachonados con púas y los han hecho rodar por las laderas de las montañas hasta el abismo?¿No han consignado estos negros miserables a los perros que se comen al hombre hasta que estos últimos, saciados por la carne humana, dejaron a las víctimas destrozadas para ser rematadas con bayoneta y puñal?