China became famous for its eternal working days. The solution has been to throw employees at their time

The Reduction of the working day It seems to be a path of no return that many countries have proposed to move. Some, Like GreeceThey do not do it with a determined step. Instead, others whose self -denial It seemed immovable, they are surprising the world with day reduction measures. China is one of those countries that, unexpectedly, has proposed to cut its workday. Labor culture 996. While in a large part of the West the eight -hour workday begins to be seen as a vestige of the last century and fights for the reduction of working hours, in China the culture 996 still continues: work from nine in the morning to nine o’clock at night and six days per week. Such and as they tell In ethic, that pace of work is taking Chinese society to the extreme, pulling on the soils The birth rate in a country that for years has sinned just the opposite. Chinese authorities have been trying for years Eliminate the culture of 996 of the workplace, but Without too much success. Dji has seriously proposed. According to The published by SCMP, Since the end of February something very curious is happening in DJI, the Chinese drone manufacturer. When the clock marks nine o’clock at night, a squad of human resources managers travels through the brand’s central offices in Shenzhen. Their mission is to make sure that all employees without exception leave their jobs and go home as if it were a fire drill. Instead of evacuating the building for security, employees are “guests” to leave their cubicles to meet a new rule: no one can work beyond their day. The fault is “Neijuan”. No, Neijuan It is not the name of the company’s Human Resources Manager. The term could translate to something as “involution” and, as they explain in SCMP, It refers to the need to reduce excess competition in certain areas of the economy. The measure is imposed as a New economic policy of China in which it is intended to reduce the excess of competence that makes companies in certain sectors such as The technological either Renewable energiesinvest an unnecessary amount of resources without obtaining an improvement in their profitability or in their R&D in return. Therefore, it implies outbound templates without registering a significant advance generating inefficient competition. It is something unpublished in China. Until recently, it was common to see the offices of DJI illuminated until the early hours of the morning with employees who lengthened their days until infinity. Now, the image is very different and has impacted many who have commented on social networks. The Asian media highlighted the publication of a worker surprised by the measure that commented “it was the first time they threw me from the office.” Other technological giants are adding. Although the work culture 996 has the support of prominent names of the Chinese technology industry Like Jack Mamore and more international companies such as Haier or Measure They are adding to the call of the Chinese government of limit the days of its employees. According to sources of SCMPHaier would have ordered all the staff of his headquarters to respect the breaks of two days of the weekend, while Midea has begun to demand that the workers file their departure at 6:20 p.m., instead of 9 pm. In Xataka | Working more than 60 hours a week is not healthy: Japan is starting to learn by force In Xataka | To motivate its Chinese workers, it has opted for a prize. His name is Caracol, and it is a public humiliation Image | Unspash (Duc Dao)

say goodbye to employees if they do not marry and have children

October 2024. The New York Times Uncapa One of the latest initiatives sponsored by the China Government to lift its battered birth and that takes off once and for all: literally go door by door In search of women to intervene in crucial decisions about motherhood. Several months have passed since then and, far from lowering the tension, the proposals have climbed several levels. Unprecedented business policy. It also counted the Times this week. In an extreme attempt to reverse the fall in marriage and birth rates, the chemical company Shandong Shuntian Chemical Group issued a notice aimed at its single employees. The proposal: demand marrying and forming a family before September 30 or face the termination of your employment contract. That mandate, that quickly It went viral on social networkswas presented as a call to loyalty and social responsibility, aligning with government efforts to promote a more “friendly with fertility” in China. It is not the first time. The truth is that the chemical company was not the first to intervene in the personal life of its employees. Recently, the Pangdonglai supermarket chain prohibited its workers demand “wedding prices” (skills that men pay to the family of the future wife), arguing that They make marriage more expensive and discouraged the formation of families. In addition, he limited the number of guests at the weddings of his employees to five tables. Despite criticism in networks, The People’s Dailyofficial newspaper of the Communist Party, defended the measure as a step towards a Most accessible and civilized marriage. Be that as it may, before the negative reaction, Shandong Shuntian He withdrew the order that went viral and was forced to undergo a “rectification” by the local government, although the controversy highlighted the degree of interference that some private companies seem to be assuming in the demographic crisis. The background of the marriage crisis (and demographic). It We counted this week. The nation is so desperate to solve the birth rate that they are even considering reduce legal age To marry. In the background, a drastic decrease in their marriage and birth rates. In 2023, Only 6.1 million couples They married, 20% less than the previous year and the lowest figure since the Government began registering data in 1986. In addition, the population has decreased for three consecutive yearswhich has generated a growing concern about the impact on the economy and future work of the country. Other extreme strategies. As We count in October last year, the government had implemented various strategies to encourage birth, from subsidies to Elimination of the Single Son Policy. Some of the most striking actions included those Home visits to women to ask them about their pregnancy plans, but also all kinds of Official propaganda ensuring that pregnancy “makes the most intelligent women”, or even called to create a social environment conducive to fertility, including incentives in the workplace. However, these measures have been received with skepticismespecially Among the young Chinesewho cite economic reasons, lack of job stability and a desire for personal autonomy as the main reasons to avoid marriage and fatherhood. Companies as pressure tools. Had the New York Times Although the Chinese government has not issued direct orders as it did in the past with the policy of the only child, it has encouraged an indirect social pressure model. According to feminist activist Lu Pin, instead of imposing drastic measures, the Communist Party would be delegating the Pressure in private companiesusing social norms to influence citizens’ behavior. The intervention of companies such as Shandong Shuntian and Pangdonglai suggests that many companies consider acceptable to implement Rules aligned with the government agenda. Although officially the government does not force them to marry or have children, it allows and in some cases publicly supports business actions that foster these practices. Social control. In fact, an example of this approach was A filtered draft of the Quanzhou Health Commission, which proposed that government employees “take the initiative in the implementation of the policy of the three children.” Although the document did not specify how they should do it, the similarities with the Single Son Policy They have generated concern about possible more direct state pressure in the future. In short, the measures seem to reflect a change in the Government’s demographic control strategy, which has gone from imposing birth restrictions to the opposite: actively foster marriage and reproduction. In question, of course, the erosion of individual rights and the autonomy of the workers themselves. Image | Josh Vaughn In Xataka | China only allows you to get married from the age of 20. Now he wants to lower it to solve his demographic crisis In Xataka | China spends its last bullet for birth to take off in the country: to go a door in search of women

Zuckerberg dismissed 5% of the goal template “for low performance”. His former employees say there is another reason

In the same way as It is not the same to resign That they fire you (although the result is that you are left without employment), it is not the same as they fire you For a staff cut that for “low performance”. Goal, ha 5% of its workforcearguing that they were low performance employees. However, this public justification has enraged the 3,600 meta -employed since they stigmatizes them as bad workers when they apply for new jobs. The former employees say that their work performance has only been an excuse, but not the real reason for their dismissal. A “cruel” trick to cut staff. “I have decided to raise the level of performance management and fire low performance employees more quickly,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg in the internal memorandum sent to its employees in January. Such and as he published Business InsiderThis was raising the scale of what the company considered “low performance” to put employees in the pillory who, until that moment, considered that they had a good performance. Sally Maitlis, a professor of organizational behavior and leadership at Saïd Business School, assured to Fortune That the “low performance” label could be a ballast for the professional career of the former employees dismissed, doubly penalizing them with the loss of their employment and closing the door to find a new one. “It is a terrible way of being labeled and is clearly not useful for anyone in the labor market,” Maitlis said. They have shouted the four winds. Before such injustice for them, employees have not hesitated to raise their voice from social networks to claim their professionalism and denounce the bad faith that, according to them, has used a goal in their dismissal. “Today they have fired me, but not for being a low performance employee. Let’s be clear: that label is misleading and, for many of us, it is totally wrong,” ” published on his LinkedIn account Steven S, former product of Instagram product. Kaila Curry, who worked as a content manager, said in her LinkedIn profile that: “I often asked for comments and they always told me that I was doing a good job. They never assigned a PIP (performance improvement plan), they never gave me correction indications and never guided me or gave me clear expectations. I just struggled … I am not a person of low performance.” A mortgaged future. The main complaint of the employees focuses on the argument that has publicly wielded a goal to justify the dismissal of the 3,600 employees since, as they argue, it harms their options for free to get a new job. “The most difficult thing is that goal says publicly that they are cutting low yields, so it feels as if we had the scarlet letter on our backs. People need to know that we do not have low performance,” declared one of the employees dismissed to Business Insider. “It is possible that these people are superstar in other places. Therefore, it seems to me that it is an additional punishment because they are people who probably have a very high market value,” He pointed out to Fortune Dan Cable, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School. Employers are answering. One of the most recurring advice when running for a new job is not criticizing the company that has just fired you. However, against any forecast, the strategy of the finishing targets has had a positive impact. Many recruiters and companies have shown interest in the profiles of the target employees. “Good employers look for people who are good communicators, capable of defending themselves, just as they would in their position within the organization,” He stood out to Business Insider Ashley Herd, Recruitment Expert from LinkedIn and founder of a manager recruitment company. “Those who speak of course can be found, being realistic, with a smaller group of possible employers, but it will be a group that really aligns with their values ​​and supports professional success and long -term happiness,” said the expert. Now stigma is target. Mark Zuckerberg said the layoffs were not due to economic difficulties, but to a restructuring to focus on the IA development And, in fact, vacancies had opened to incorporate into this new profile. Since the hiring process is a relationship of two, the complaints expressed in social networks by their ex -employed can complicate that process. User forums as Reddit or Teamblind have filled the new candidates about the new goal policy with warnings. “It seems that it was more money than performance. Be careful to join this company. Zuck does not care about its employees. Only the company,” wrote A meta -employed. “Meta is now the most cruel technological company that exists,” added another former partner. Other great technological companies Like Microsoft or Amazon have already announced that they will take more into account the performance of their employees when signing their layoffs. In Xataka | A 1.3 million rolex and a brilliant suit: the new Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated his wife’s birthday Image | Goal, Unspash (Annie Spratt)

OpenAi already prepares agents of AI capable of replacing the most valuable employees. And plans to charge $ 20,000 per month for them

Many feared that AI stole their work. However, new leaked data In The Information They raise a quite different situation, because the prices that OpenAi shuffles for their future advanced agents is absolutely extraordinary. $ 20,000 per month for an AI agent. According to this medium, Openai plans to launch several AI agents oriented to various tasks and scenarios. And the more advanced and specialized, the more expensive they will be. In fact, the most expensive they are talking about would be an investigating agent with the level of a human doctorate, and that would cost $ 20,000 per month. Hiring AI employees will not be cheap. There are other agents such as the qualified as a “knowledge worker with high income” that will have an estimated price of 2,000 dollars per month. If what we want is subtitUOpenai’s proposal will cost $ 10,000 per month. Agents who will work at all hours. The theoretical advantage of these agents is that they will be able to do a theoretically impeccable job, but they will also do it at all hours, without breaks or breaks, without weekends or vacations and without getting bad. If they are really able to do the job as well (or better) as a human being in that position, the investment may come out very profitable. There is no estimated date. It is not clear when these agricultural IAS will be launched or when they will be available for companies, but in The Information they point out how SoftBank – a versor in Openai – has committed to invest 3,000 million dollars in OpenAi agents this year. And OpenAi needs a lot of money. Those expensive subscriptions would leave the current Chatgpt Pro plan of 200 dollars a month, but are of course the road that OpenAi has to become profitable. Today, like most AI companies, OpenAi is burning money and spends much more than he enters. The Plan: Be profitable in 2029. Internal data were leaked months ago according to which OpenAI I hoped to be profitable in 2029. To achieve this they have a fairly simple plan: offer increasingly faces that will make users who want to access their most advanced AI models pay small fortunes monthly. The AI ​​revolution will face. If we listen to these new rumors, it will be better for companies to prepare for the future. One in which they may have the option of “hiring AI employees”, but They are better to be profitablebecause everything indicates that their salaries will be high. Image | Techcrunch In Xataka | “I have three years of work”: more and more IA managers believe that AI will end up removing the position

47% of employees save more than 100 euros per month in derived expenses

Teleworking has lost part of the thrust demonstrated during the last four years after the hardening of the policies back to the office. According to him ‘Teleworking Report 2025‘Prepared by the labor consultant Robert Walters, 67% of teleworkors enjoy two or less work days from home. This reflects a clear tendency towards More flexible work modelsbut with greater presence in the office. That paradigm change supposes An added cost both for companies and For workers. The price of teleworking. A study The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) revealed that employees were willing to give up up to 25% of their salary in exchange for continuing to telework. Robert Walters’s study has completed the monthly average economic cost for workers associated with the return to the office. 47% of the interviewees ensure that the return to the office represents an additional economic disbursement of between 100 euros and more than 200 euros per month. On the other hand, 46% of employees who thought remote work negatively affected its internal visibility And the options to ascend to better positions will see how their opportunities are matched. Less remote, more hybrid. The study reveals that only 2 out of 10 workers who currently do so before 2020, showing the impact of pandemic on the extension of remote work. However, this modality has been contracting to leave space to hybrid models with every time More predominance of face -to -face work. The data collected by Robert Walters analysts suggest that 36% of the hybrid days only allow teleworking one day. 31% of companies allow two days to work in remote and 7% leave three days to work outside the office. The data of the companies that allow teleworking full -time is 13%, a figure close to the percentage of employees who telework in Spainaccording to INE data. Face -to -face or flexibility? The data collected by the study also reveal a change in employee preferences. 48% of respondents would prefer to have a more flexible schedule instead of another day of teleworking. In addition, 32%of the participants said that their company did not allow them to choose the teleworking days, being Monday (with 44%) and Friday (32%) the most common days to telework. “In recent months, we are attending the decline regarding flexibility in many companies that just a few years ago, they defended the conciliation and flexibility globally so that their workers could adopt and balance their personal and professional lives with the aim of turning companies into a pillar, support and support of the mental health of their employees,” said Jane Bamford, Managing Director for the southern Europe of Robert Walters. No teleworking, there is no job. 79% of respondents said they would change jobs if their company will eliminate teleworking options or time flexibility policies. 74% expect your company to maintain the same conditions at least this year, while 25% are convinced that Teleworking options will be reduced. Among the advantages that value teleworking most is the saving in the time of the displacements (78%), as well as their cost (44%). 74% points to Advantages for family reconciliation that allows them to work from home, although 16% say that at home they are much easier to concentrate. Manage from distance. Among the arguments that companies have given to reduce teleworking days, 26% of the companies participating in the study have felt the decline in work quality. At 32% it costs more loyalty to the employees in remote and that complicates them the Internal talent retention. On the other hand, 42% ensure that teleworking has complicated the assessment of workers’ performance and, therefore, cannot value your productivity as They did it from the offices. In general, 73% of those responsible for teams that worked at a distance indicated the communication problems between employees as one of the most frequent problems of teleworking. In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week Image | Unspash (Yolk Coworking – Krakow)

Employees value both teleworking that they would be willing to lower their salary: specifically up to 25%

100% remote work is becoming a model with less and less presencesince companies are adopting hybrid days at best, and the return to the face -to -face in many others. In that context, A study From the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) I have revealed that employees are willing to give up a percentage of their salary, or accept offers with a lower salary, if that allows them keep working from home. Up to 25% salary cut. He NBER study He has analyzed how much the employees of the technological sector value remote work, using concrete data and comparing it with their salary. This assessment allows to measure the real value that employees give to teleworking in a context in which face -to -face work and hybrid work models have become the most common option. The result has been surprising since the employees came to assume discounts of up to 25% on average in exchange for not having to go to the office. As I know resigned from teleworking daysthe salary amount to which they were willing to resign was also reduced, going down to the strip from 15 to 20% of the total salary. A much higher cuts than expected. The National Bureau of Economic Research is not the first study that addresses this valuation of teleworking, but the estimates of the previous studies resulted in a much smaller percentages fork that placed the cut that were willing to assume between 5% and 10% of your total salary. As an example, we find The study carried out in January 2024 by the University of Barcelona and the “La Caixa” Foundation, which set this percentage in 8% salary cut. However, something that must be taken into account is that teleworking options have been maintained In high qualification profiles and higher wages, so this cut already part of a salary range with a high percentile. The law of supply and demand. According to Report data ‘IV Radiography of Teleworking in Spain 2024’ prepared by Infojobs, 7.6% of employed people work more than half of their weekly day from home. However, The study ‘State of Remote Work’ of 2023 prepared by Buffer, revealed that 98% of employees preferred to work from home for the constant interruptions and by the displacements to the office. On the other hand, as the Infojobs study pointed out, the offers that included some teleworking modality has been reduced by 2024, representing 14% of the total employee vacancies published. This percentage has only declined since in 2021 it reached its 21% peak, which was reduced to 19% in 2022 and 18% of the total in 2023. According to the NBER study, reduction in the remote employment offer has caused remote work to be perceived as a much more valuable modality than was estimated in previous studies, especially between technological industries. A justification for charging less? The study opens an important debate on compensatory differentials between employees. Employees with teleworking days do not show substantial salary differences With respect to their peers who go to the office. That would leave the door open to companies could reduce salary for remote roles under the principle of compensatory differentials. That is, pay less in exchange for non -salary benefits such as hourly flexibility, which their classmates do not enjoy with a face -to -face day. Something that is not happening. According to the authors of the study, this salary equalization suggests that technology companies are still adjusted to this New labor reality and compete to retain talent by offering similar wages, regardless of whether the work is remote or face -to -face. Telefajo: an advantage for SMEs. As the ADECCO IT & DIGITAL SALARIAL GUIDESMEs cannot compete with the salary ranges offered by large technological ones. That is why teleworking offers you an opportunity To attract a talent that finds no remote employment offers in large technological ones, which they have given by amortized Your adventure with teleworking. Nber’s study demonstrates a trend in which qualified employees would be willing to collect a lower salary that would perceive it in a large multinational, in exchange for being able to work from home. This implies a factor that balances the opportunities to capture talent for SMEs. In Xataka | After this year one in three young people will have changed their jobs: it is nothing personal, it is only salary Image | Unspash (Half Profile)

Trump orders federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees to be placed on leave

One night after Donald Trump signed an executive order eliminating the federal government’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, The president ordered that all employees in that area be placed on paid leave starting Wednesday. Thus, the new administration sent a letter to all heads and acting heads of government agencies, informing them that All federal employees on DEI duty must be placed on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. This comes as agencies prepare to close all DEI-related offices and programs and delete all websites and social media accounts for those offices. It also calls on federal agencies to submit a written plan by Jan. 31 to lay off employees. As reported by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “President Trump campaigned on ending the scourge of DEI from our federal government and returning America to a merit-based society where people based on their abilities, not the color of their skin.” “This is another victory for Americans of all races, religions and creeds. “Promises made, promises kept,” he said. Different media outlets highlighted that after signing the anti-DEI executive order this week, Trump fired the leader of the US Coast Guard, Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead one of the branches of the US Armed Forces. According to Fox News, the new government’s decision is due to an “erosion of trust” in Fagan due to issues related to border security or recruitment. However, critics say the dismissal came from concerns about his obsession with politics. DEI. Fagan, according to the same network, made diversity, equity and inclusion policies a priority, the same ones that the new Trump Executive has proposed to end. Keep reading: • Trump announces firing of four high-profile officials, including chef José Andrés• Jill Biden defines Donald Trump as “a dangerous bully for the LGBTQ community”• Attorneys general from 18 states sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order

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