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Robots will overcome their human employees in number

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In some of Amazon’s most advanced logistics centers, robots are no longer an aid: they are a majority. They move tirelessly, raise shelves, scan packages and feed a huge distribution network. Automation is ceasing to be a promise to become a reality that can mark the rhythm of the entire sector. Amazon has already deployed more than one million robots in its logistics centers. Company itself sayswhich has been automating many tasks before people. That figure is not only the highest recorded so far, it also reflects to what extent automation has ceased to be marginal to become a key piece of the system. According to data collected by Red Stag FulfillmentAmazon had some 2025 with some 1.56 million employees globally. Of that total, approximately 1.1 million worked in the United States. If we compare both figures, the number of robots begins to approach that of human workers. It all started more than a decade ago In 2012, Amazon paid 775 million dollars By Kiva Systems, a company that was then dedicated to manufacturing mobile robots to move shelves in stores. It was an unexpected operation, but full of intention: it was not just a technological acquisition, it was a declaration of principles. Amazon not only bought technology, bought control of its future automation. Since then, the strategy was clear. Amazon began to integrate Kiva technology into its logistics centers. What was once a specialized startup in material management became the heart of a Silent transformation that has redefined how millions of orders are processed per day. At first, Kiva robots They were limited to transportr shelves with products without packing. It was a very concrete solution, designed to eliminate physically demanding and repetitive tasks. But over the years, the role of robotics was expanding. Today, robots not only move things: package, classify, raise weights, organize loads and optimize routes inside the warehouse without rest. In some centers, more than 70 robotic arms classify millions of items, fill paper bags, close cast cars and They collaborate directly to human staff. “Kiva’s purchase marked the beginning of our robotic trip,” Amazon explained. “But it was just the beginning.” And what came later shows it. Amazon has not only multiplied the number of robots in their stores. It has also diversified its catalog to form an ecosystem of specialized machines, each with very specific functions and a degree of autonomy that continues to grow. One of the most advanced systems is Sequoiaa platform that uses artificial intelligence for Manage inventory much faster. They ensure that it allows identifying and storing products 75% faster than traditional systems. It does so by displacing the items directly to storage areas or to operators located in positions designed to avoid injuries, always at the right height: between the chest and the thighs. Other mobile units work next to him Like Hercules and Titan. Both are responsible for moving complete shelves – the famous pods – to work stations. Titan, more robust, is prepared to transport more bulky and heavy objects, such as small appliances or product pallets. Both models navigate autonomously by marked soils with codes, avoid obstacles and adjust their movement in real time. In more specific tasks it appears Vulcanthe first Amazon robot With “sense of touch”. It is able to detect how much force applies to grab an object and when it has made contact, which allows you to manipulate fragile or poorly placed items without damaging them. It works especially at the highest and lowest levels of the shelves. The chain continues with Sparrowa robotic arm that identifies products, grabs them and places them in the right container thanks to computer vision and automatic learning. Then involvement systems of the packaging intervene, which provide custom paper bags for each order using sensors and thermal sealed. Robin and Cardinal are robotic arms that collect packages, detect damage and place them in cars, even when weigh up to 23 kilos. Then Proteus comes into play, the first Amazon autonomous robot, which circulates freely through the warehouse and carries those cars to the exit zone without human help. In all this deployment, there is a category of machines that continues to generate special interest: humanoid robots. What role do they have? Are they starting to integrate into logistics centers? The answer, for now, is nuanced. Amazon has begun to try them, but their presence is limited and their very specific functions. In 2023, The company announced the start of tests With Digit, a bipedo robot developed by Agility Roboticsa company in which Amazon invested through its Industrial Innovation Fund. Digit measures 1.75 meters, can transport loads of up to 16 kilos. His first task has been to help in the recycling of totes, the empty boxes that are constantly transported once their content is processed. Images | Amazon (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) In Xataka | AI as chatgpt is possible thanks to the indiscriminate use of online content. Cloudflare just said that it is over

An AI startup with six months of life and six employees has sold for 80 million dollars. Vibe-Coding, of course

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Maor Shlomo is 31 years old, is Israeli and six months ago created a small platform of Vibe Coding. He did it almost like a secondary project, but the growth of the project has been vertiginous. So much that after that time the company has just sold for 80 million dollars. We are facing a sign of the times that come to us. AI as a unicorn promoter. There are more “unicorns” than ever. None has become a true giant, but reaching an assessment of 1,000 million dollars has become something relatively normal. Achieving something like that seems very complicated, but there is already talk of how the irruption of AI will make many entrepreneurs convert their startups into unicorns. Uniquersonal unicorns. The difference With the current unicorns It is that these future business successes may be created and managed by a single person. It is at least what it promises according to some AI, which will multiply productivity and avoid having to depend on other people to generate spectacular value. It is already spoken of “Only Unicorns” either “One-Person Unicorns“And the impact that AI agents can have in this type of startups. An example that brings us closer to that future. Shlomo created his little startup, called Base44just six months ago, but at that time the growth of it was such that it ended up hiring six employees According to Ctech. This week he announced that he had sold his company to Wix – a Platform to create blogs and websites – for 80 million dollars. 25 of them which will go to Shlomo and their team as “bonus” to retain them and continue working in Wix – also Israeli – although there are no data for how long they will have to stay in the company to collect said bonus. Vibe Coding. The platform created by Shlomo Perimte users create applications or games without having programming experience. It is an example of That fever for Vibe Coding that we are seeing in the world of programming. In just a few months Base44 managed to attract 100,000 users, in addition to signing various agreements with several Israeli companies known as Etoro or Similarweb. A singular entrepreneur. Shlomo had already co -founded Explorium, a predictive analysis company of Big Data, at age 24. He also made her In a successbut he had to comply with Israeli military service. After completing the service at the end of 2024, he preferred not to return to Explorium and work on another project. He counting The origin and its progress when creating base44 through Your X account. In less than 60 days I already had 100,000 users and two weeks ago indicated that he had generated a benefit of $ 189,000. Far from being a unicorn. Shlomo’s success is remarkable, but of course it is far from being considered a unicorn and much less One of those “only unicorns” “It has several employees in your team,” that is spoken so much and that the theoretically promotes. And yet, it is a good example that artificial intelligence raises the future. The AI ​​agents are in diapers, but the promise is that they will automate a lot of processes for those who use them. That could impact significantly on the template that these future startups will need, but for now everything is, we insist, a promise. One that Shlomo has become a reality. Image | Christina In Xataka | India has its own ‘Silicon Valley’ in Bangladés. The problem is that it is a ghost city

The unions are chosen by employees

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After a judicial journey through the National Hearing in which the collective agreement was annulled that Ryanair and CCOO had signed to apply a salary ascent to the cabin crew, the airline sent its employees an unpublished requirement: since the collective agreement had been canceled, they should return to the company the salary rise that had been paid. However, the petition had a striking exception. Employees affiliated with CCOO (or affiliate) would not have to return anything. Now, the Supreme Court has annulled the clause that discriminated against the airline employees allowing some to benefit from salary and other increases not based on Your union affiliation. The origin of the problem. In 2022, Ryanair and CCOO They signed The I Collective Agreement for Cabin Crews that included a salary increase over the next three years (until April 2025). The union use, with a 22.9% representation of the workforce, took that agreement to the National Court for considering that his negotiating table had left out a quarter of the template. The National Court issued a sentence in its favor and the agreement It was canceled. As a consequence, Ryanair demanded that his employees return the salary increases included in that agreement that had been annulled, with amounts that in some cases exceeded 4,000 euros, such and as he collected The confidential. The airline argued that, in compliance with a clause signed with CCOO in that agreement, if the employees were affiliated or joined CCOO, they would not have to return the Salary increase. The new Supreme Judgment. The UGT, ATR and Sitcpla unions, on behalf of the Ryanair staff, filed an appeal before the Supreme Court that now corrects the decision of the National Court. In its sentence, the clause agreed between the airline and CCOO in which it was specified: “(…) will apply to all cabin crew employed by Ryanair and affiliated with CCOO (including CCOO affiliates during the duration of the agreement), being the agreement applicable since the month that are pleased to the union.” The Supreme Judgment of which the union has echoed In a statementrecognizes that the clause introduces a grievance of union discrimination, indicating that Ryanair “cannot establish as a mandatory requirement to benefit from the agreement an discriminatory condition, such as affiliation to a specific union.” In addition, it considers that “such a clause violates the negative dimension of freedom of association by inducing or pressing workers not affiliated to join so as not to be excluded from certain labor advantages.” Ryanair cannot choose union. The judgment issued by the Supreme Court comes to rectify the first pronouncement made by the National Court, which attributed this clause to “a decision of union policy, which may or may not be shared, but which enters within the powers of the union, of its way of conceiving the union action.” From use celebrate The Supreme Decision, ensuring that “the freedom of association has triumphed, when recognizing, already in a final judgment and without the possibility of more resources, the right of working persons to be able to adhere to an extra -state agreement signed with a union, without having to join this. This avoids the temptation of companies to ‘kidnap’ workers through affiliation to a employer of employer choice to built collective bargaining. To critical unions, “reads his statement. Ryanair satisfied, but condemned. Likewise, in the new judgment, the High Court condemns Ryanair to the payment of 7,501 euros for damages to the use and UGT unions for moral damages derived from such violation of freedom of association. For its part, the Michael O’Leary airline ensures in a statement sent to the press that “the Spanish Supreme Court has failed in favor of Ryanair in relation to the limited scope agreements negotiated with CCOO for the period 2022-2024. The Supreme Court has dismissed the allegations of use that the agreement should be annulled and confirms that the salary improvements and conditions applied to the salary of cabin based in Spain for the period 2022-2024 are valid. In addition, the company adds that “we are pleased that this sentence has given guarantees to our cabin crew based on Spain that its salary improvements and conditions will be maintained and will not be reduced by the continuous attempts to use the agreements that improve the working conditions of the cabin crew.” Ambiguous response. Ryanair’s official response does not make clear the impact of the new sentence on the salary increase of his cabin staff. At the time of publishing this article, the airline has not answered our questions about whether the company will stop claiming employees not affiliated with CCOO the salary increase already paid or, on the contrary, it will be claimed to claim all its employees, regardless of the union to which they are affiliated. We will update that information if the company gives us an answer. In Xataka | Ryanair charges extras almost even for breathing. Now he will also charge a supplement to whom he misses during the flight Image | Flickr (Sandor Somkuti)

AI is changing to the way we buy. Andy Jassy has warned its employees that this will affect its jobs

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In your report ‘Future of Jobs Report 2025’the World Economic Forum advanced that by 2030 92 million jobs were going to move due to the effect of AI on the labor market. That means that some of the current jobs They will cease to existwhile new new jobs will be generated in place. Andy Jassy, ​​Amazon CEO, headed In a statement sent to its employees in those same terms, announcing that the Amazon template will suffer a displacement in its labor mass caused by the Automation of AI. Amazon will not be the same. In his statement, Jassy says that, In a few yearsthe Amazon structure will not be the same today. It cannot be if they want to remain a competitive company. “As we implement more generative and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the work that is done today, and more people doing other types of work,” he wrote. In other words, Jassy confirms the theory that at the beginning of the year already raised the World Economic Forum: that the impact of AI would not mean the net destruction of employment in its workforce, but would force Amazon to restructure their departments to reduce employees in some and hire more employees in others. The elephant in the room. The Employment displacement theory In Amazon, however, he raises some doubts for which not even the Amazon CEO has an answer: at what rhythm will that change occur? Is Amazon capable of maintaining the balance of your template? “It is difficult to know exactly how this will be translated over time, but in the coming years we hope that this will reduce our total template as efficiency increases thanks to the extensive use of AI throughout the company,” Jassy wrote in his statement. According to StatistaAmazon currently employs 1.56 million people worldwide, making it the second largest private employer in the United States after Walmart. The change in their stores. Amazon is not the first time he faces a dilemma like the one posed by its executive director. The e-commerce giant already faced him when he began the automation of his logistics centers. On that occasion, a whole Robot Army replaced the employees who were responsible for searching of products. However, as they were implemented Those automated systemsSLA company created new positions of preparation, sending orders, maintenance and engineering. According to data from Amazon,This automation needed 30% more used for its logistics centers. The problem in that case It was the same which is currently raised: many jobs were eliminated with the arrival of robots, but the Creation of new positions It was gradual, leaving a temporary job deficit. Change is not among the same. Another of the problems posed by Amazon’s forecast and that makes a big difference between what happened in logistics centers and the arrival of AI, is that the new positions that, according to Andy Jassy, ​​will be generated, are not equivalent to those who will cease to exist. A warehouse employee It cannot develop a new AI function for the Amazon store. In that sense, CEO’s words to their employees mark A solution for your employees: “Be curious about AI, Edúquense, attend workshops and take training, use and experiment with AI whenever they can.” In addition, the statement insisted “the most transformative technology from the Internet is already here. Those who hug this change are familiar with AI, help us to build and improve our internal levels and contribute value to customers, will be well positioned to have a great impact and help us reinvent the company.” That is, paraphrasing a phrase that has run like gunpowder on the Internet in recent years, “AI will not take your job, it will be taken away from someone who knows how to use it.” If the client changes, you have to adapt. According to the document signed by Jassy, ​​the AI ​​”will change the way we all work and live”, so companies must change their structure to adapt to those changes. The manager referred to the change in habits in the form of search and buy products that users are already starting to use. Tools based on Amazon’s own as Alexa+, but must also respond to the changes that other companies are promoting like Google Lens and the Circle to Search functionor through searches engines based on AI as the overview that Google has integrated into its browser. If the user changes his way of searching for products, Amazon must adapt to it and, according to Jassy, ​​that will generate internal changes. “It will change the way we all work and live. In all companies and in all imaginable fields,” said the manager. Amazon scissors. Regardless of the announcement of great changes in the Amazon squad for the coming years, the company was already coming from a restructuring trajectory of its workforce that, such and as they detail In Laysoff.fyi, it began in 2022 and has already resulted in 27,940 employees without employment. The announcement of its CEO is nothing more than the confirmation that this restructuring process will be chronified and Amazon will continue to adapt its template to the needs and advantages presented by AI. In Xataka | Of engineers to keyboard operators: AI is converting software programming into a mounting chain Image | Amazon

Google has opened the door to its employees so that whoever is not motivated to go voluntarily: Zuckerberg rubs his hands

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Google used to be the place where all software engineers They dreamed of working. However, in recent years that dream It has vanished. The company, known for its conciliatory culture, now surprises with a strategy that invites some workers to leave the company voluntarily To save costs in dismissal, according to an internal email published by The Verge. New voluntary output strategy. As you can read in the memorandum to which you have had access The VergeGoogle is offering a voluntary exit to the employees of its “Knowledge and Information” department (K & I, for its acronym in English), the area that includes those responsible for the search tool, engineering, marketing, research and communications. This document signed by Nick Fox, current responsible of the department, raises the possibility that, those who want to leave the company voluntarilythey can do it with economic incentives, in what is known as the “Voluntary Exit Program” (VEP), a pilot program of voluntary exits that Google put to the test in some departments after the dismissal of 12,000 employees in 2023. In Xataka Of engineers to keyboard operators: AI is converting software programming into a mounting chain Google is only for motivated. In Your statement, Nick Fox, it has been very clear: “If you are excited about your work, full of energy because of the opportunity that you present to you and you yield well, I really hope (really!) That you do not accept this. We have ambitious plans and much to do.” At the same time, Google offers “an exit path with support for those who do not feel aligned with our strategy, do not feel vitalized for their work, or are having difficulty fulfilling the expectations of their role within the company.” Said otherwise, The door has taught them. Welcome to the offices. Since 2022, Google has carried out different rounds of layoffs massive, and has progressively hardening the flexibility to telework through pressures in employee assessments. The filtered document does not let the occasion escape and also remember that employees living less than 80 kilometers from a work center must go to the office three days a week to the office, and encouraging to move closer to them to Those who live further. {“Videid”: “X919SE0”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “The AI ​​and the future of our work Silvia Rivela | 100 years, 100 visions Ep.3”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “2630”} Template reaction. The reaction of the workforce to the new “non-descent” policy It has not been waiting. When associated with a hardening of teleworking policy for that department, many see in it an undercover dismissal that seeks to save dismissal costs. The discomfort has been fed because, while the dismissals and founders were happening demanded 12 -hour daysPichai sundar The salary climbed And the company announced Milmillonarios benefits. Risk leakage risk. Google is running a very high risk that, when opening the door to their employees, the best qualified decide to take the floor and lose their best talent in this operation of Costs. The announcement, in addition, occurs in a delicate moment. Companies as a goal are willing to Offer millionaire figures To capture that talent, especially in areas such as artificial intelligence, so this movement could have unexpected consequences for the competitiveness of the company. In Xataka | A figure shows that the problem is not to find qualified talent, but knowing how to retain it: 24.1% labor rotation Image | Unspash (Adarsh ​​Chauhan) (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Google has opened the door to its employees so that whoever is not motivated to go voluntarily: Zuckerberg rubs his hands It was originally posted in Xataka by Rubén Andrés .

We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea

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I do it. And you may too. Arrives with the billing zone of any airport in the world to verify that we are many, manywho tied tapes, scarves or cords to our bags to differentiate them. A striking colorful color. An old bracelet. A loop with a name. It doesn’t matter. The idea is that we can clearly identify our suitcase of those of the rest of the passengers. Mark it in an unmistakable way (or so we believe) so that according to Asome by the conveyor belt we know that it is ours. It turns out that it is not as a good idea as it seems. Well on paper … But not so much in practice. Although we are many who add tapes to our Trolleys Billed to identify them at a glance, that trick has its weak points. And the most curious thing is that it is the airport employees themselves who They are warning it. Hanging a tape or handkerchief of the ASA may help you locate your suitcase and expedite billing, but workers in charge of managing luggage can be a real complication. One that ends up lengthening the security controls of your suitcase … and affecting your Planning travel. “It can cause problems”. The warning was released recently John, in charge of luggage at Dublin airport, a huge infrastructure for which only last year they paraded near 32 million passengers. With their respective suitcases, of course. In statements To the Irish magazine RSVP Magazinethe airfield employee warns that, at least in certain cases, the signals we use to differentiate our invoiced luggage complicate the controls. To the manual. “The tapes that people bind to their bags to help identify them can cause problems when scanning them in the luggage room,” Clarifies the employee Dublin, and warns: “If the suitcase is not able to scan automatically, it can end in manual processing, which could mean that it does not reach the flight.” Result? A trick that seeks to speed up the trip and avoid losses at the airport would end up becoming the opposite: a big problem. Adds and continues of advice. It is not the only advice left by the employee of the Dublin terminal. So that the passage through the airfields is the most comfortable, fast and quiet as possible RVSP Magazine leaves three other ideas almost as easy to apply as unleashed the ties that we have been able to hang from our Trolleys. The first is in fact very simple: also remove the stickers of old flights. “They can cause confusion with the scanning process,” says John. The second is to place the wheels of the suitcase up to prevent damage while driving it. And the third, somewhat more picturesque but equally crucial: avoid the mazapanes in the travel bags, no matter how fond of these sweets based on almond. The reason? “It has the same density as some explosives, so they will remove the suitcase and call it from the plane.” Travel with luggage … and tricks. John’s is not the first advice on airports and luggage. He is not even the first to expedite the tedious process of waiting for our suitcase to appear for the conveyor belt. The newspaper a year ago The Sun published Two others to get your suitcases and other packages to appear in the luggage collection room: The first It is to place a sticker that identifies them as “fragile”, which will help them to be of the first to be discharged; The second is to make the Chek in and bill Later as possible. The latter, of course, is not suitable for cardiac … and can lead to more than one scare if the traveler does not calculate the times well. Images | Gary Bembridge (Flickr) and Friend Jad (Flickr) In Xataka | The airlines continue to charge for the hand suitcase despite the historical fine and they already warn: they will raise prices *An earlier version of this article was published in June 2024

Without knowing very well how, two KIA employees have stolen 1,000 engines in five years. And the hole is 2.3 million dollars

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“In this plant there are missing engines.” Something like that must have said in the plant Kia in India where an audit discovered that there were missing engines. Specifically 900 combustion blocks that nobody had news and that They would have disappeared during the last three years. With the passage of time the investigations have followed their course and, with them, they have discovered that the hole was even greater than expected. They point out in Motorpasion that the last investigations suggest that the engines would have disappeared because, during five yearstwo employees have stolen them from the factory itself. And, specifically, it has been a total of 1,008 combustion blocks that have raffled the safety of the plant at some point throughout it. 2.3 million in combustion engines The investigations, evidently, wondered how two operators could get more than a thousand engines out of the Kia plant without anyone noticing. And the answer seems obvious: they were not alone. According Police have unraveled what happened have discovered that, at least, they calculate that Six people They were involved. Two of them inside the factory, two others who worked on their transport and one last couple were in charge of their distribution. The workers had positions of responsibility within the motor line and point to The Economic Times that falsified company documentation as invoices and papers in which the output of the engines was registered to transfer the doors. One of these workers is detained and is being investigated but the second is missing. Once this first control is over, it is believed that engines They were transferred in a truck to Nueva Dheli. That is, a trip of more than 2,000 kilometers since it is necessary to cross a good part of the country. Trucks used false registration plates and indicate in Reutersalready in the city they were distributed selling them as they had left the factory. That is, completely assembled. The money that points to a hole in KIA accounts of 2.3 million dollars, according to the police, was used for personal expenses, purchase of homes and solve past debts. The robbery realized in Kia following some strange movements registered by the security and documentation cameras that did not square. Regarding punishment, in Motorpasion They point out that the two employees They have not yet been accused of a specific crime for which they will have to wait for the trial. However, Local media They point to sentences that could exceed 10 years in prison once the process ends. Photo | Kia In Xataka | After the theft of 12,000 cars in a year, the police in this city have given a neighborhood council: leave the keys in sight

The Klarna CEO dismissed 700 employees to replace them with AI. Now he has replaced himself … with an avatar

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In 2022, the European technological giant Klarna (one of the main actors in the world of digital payments), He fired 700 workers To replace them with a chatbot. According to the company, in just one month implementing it, they concluded that the chatbot was able to cover two thirds of the company’s customer service chats. “He is doing the job equivalent to 700 full -time agents,” they said. Now, the company flirts again with AI to replace … to its CEO. I’m not me, it’s an avatar. Klarna has presented Your results report of the first 2025 quarter regardless of its CEO. Or, rather, using a virtual CEO. The video begins with full transparency: “It is me, or rather, my artificial intelligence avatar.” Siemiatkowski is still CEO of Klarna, but the company wanted to show its commitment to the AI ​​replacing it for the presentation of results. Avatar ia. We recommend watching the video since the avatar, Far from being one -style Facebookhe is realistic to not being able. Only the imperfect audio synchronization and the absence of natural flickering can make us suspect that we are not facing a real person. For the rest, it is an avatar that could strain perfectly. A strong bet on AI … The company was clear that customer service services could be provided through the integration of a chatbot. Klarna said at the time of dismissals that “he is on par of human agents in terms of customer satisfaction score”, and that “it is more precise in tasks.” Some service users such as Gergely Oroszcreator of the Newsletter The Pragmatic EngineerThey thought the opposite, pointing out that the chatbot did not do much beyond reciting documents. The most curious? When the chatbot was not able to find an answer, the solution it gave was to speak with a human assistant in case of problems. Klarna is marking the guideline in the practical deployment of AI, and the benefits quickly accumulate. Since 2022, Klarna has rationalized its workforce by approximately 40 %, while increasing the percentage of technological employees of 36 % in 2022 to 52 % in the first quarter of 2025. 96 % of employees use AI daily, which has contributed to a 152 % increase in revenues per employee from the first quarter of 2013 and has put Klarna on the way employee income. AI is reducing costs throughout the company, especially in customer service, where transaction costs have been reduced by 40% since the first quarter of 2013, while maintaining customer satisfaction levels. … in which humans are necessary. In February 2025 Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of the company, He admitted that AI will never be as valuable as human talent. He acknowledged that the bot was faster responding, but that it was limited to “offering fragments of documentation”, without a real understanding of the text. He announced thus through X that they would start working so that the company was the best offering real “people” to talk to. In other words: what They would begin to recover and reactivate the hiring of personnel which was once replaced by a chatbot. They are not alone. Just a few weeks ago, IBM explained that they were in the process of contracting workers, after having fired 8,000 to replace them with the. It is a somewhat more particular case, since IBM automated 94% of human resources related to human resources, With positions that will not cover again. With the savings in costs that this meant, they are reinforcing the hiring in positions related to programming and sales. There are companies guaranteeing that replacements for AI are a correct decisionothers that end up reculating and evidencing on LinkedIn that it was not a good ideaand managers fearing that be replaced in the short term. Image | Klarna In Xataka | At the moment, AI is not removing work for people. Its development is leaving a reguero of dismissals

A few months ago Ryanair raised her salary to her employees in Spain. Now he is claiming that they return it

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Collective bargaining is a delicate issue in which it is not always easy to satisfy all the parties involved and stay within the legislation. The last example is the negotiation of the I Collective Agreement for Ryanair cabin crew, which brought salary increases Immediate to these workers, but that resulted in their cancellation by the National Court. According to The published by El Confidencial, Now Ryanair asks his workers to return those increases. However, such and as they denounce From the air-sectors union, the airline has imposed a condition for workers not to have to return these salary ups: join CCOO. The beginning of the mess: a unilateral collective agreement. In October 2022, the Irish airline and the CCOO union signed the I Collective Agreement for cabin crew. As collected The economistThe agreement contemplated regular annual salary increases for three years until April 2025 for these employees, as well as a change in the fixed and variable remuneration structure. The problem is that, according to the Air-Sector-Sector union, which represents 22.9% of the Ryanair template, the agreement was prepared at a negotiating table that left out the representatives of much of the staff. That caused the union to present an appeal for nullity that the National Court has confirmed canceling The validity of the agreement signed. Ryanair applied an unsigned agreement. The regulations establish that all collective agreements They must register in the General Directorate of Labor before starting to be applied. Since the use union presented an appeal for nullity before justice, the General Directorate of Labor did not process the agreement until justice was pronounced in this regard. However, and despite not having fulfilled that regulatory process, Ryanair applied the salary increases agreed in the agreement that signed unilaterally with CCOO from October 2024. Now, given the recognition of nullity of the National Court, Ryanair claims to his cabin crew members of the return of between 1,000 and 4,000 euros that, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case, according to the case of salary increase. According to the representatives of air-sectors “the agreement” The agreement was signed without prior consultation to the workfor Ryanair’s claim. According to sources mentioned by The confidentialand confirmed For the air user, the airline is sending letters to its cabin crew claiming the immediate return of the salary increase that was paid between October 2024 and April 2025. In its letter, the company offers to recognize the debt and claims to be “willing to offer you a payment plan in 12 monthly installments, with deductions that will begin on the payroll of June”. The amount varies according to each case, but moves between 1,000 euros and more than 4,000 euros per employee, for undue salary increases. If you join CCOO there is no debt. Another alternative proposed by the Irish company to solve the problem is to join the CCOO union, automatically cond by this salary “debt”. “To minimize the impact of the annulment of the collective agreement by use, this agreement is applicable to CCOO affiliates,” they point out from use. In a statement signed by Lisa McCormack, Ryanair Human Resources Director, to which It has had access The confidentialthe person in charge indicated that: “If any worker is not affiliated with CCOO since the previous limited agreement ended and the collective agreement was annulled, but wishes to take advantage of this limited field agreement, you must directly contact CCOO. We have agreed with CCOO that those who are afraid can now maintain their current working conditions (…) This limited range agreement is the only feasible way to protect your salary.” The company has chosen its union. In its statement, air-user, it qualifies as a “harassment and demolition to which Ryanair is subjecting to the cabin crew non-affiliates to CCOO to affil Organic Law on Freedom“ Raquel Bautista, head of Use-Ryanair, pointed out that the condition of “forgiving” the alleged debt to CCOO affiliates is “a master play they want to use to erase Ryanair’s union map after years of sentences won, and only stay with their trust union.” Neither CCOO nor Ryanair have responded to Xataka’s information requests on this subject, but we will update this article if they do. In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else Image | Ryanair

Some Tesla employees requested Elon Musk’s dismissal in a public letter. The company responded with fulminating dismissals

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In recent months the situation of Tesla It has been complicated for a series of catastrophic misfortunes. Some of them were predictable, such as the punctual fall in sales before The renewal of its supervent model, the Model and. Others, on the other hand, have been entirely unexpected. As the reputational crisis that has collapsed the sales of the brand’s cars worldwide by the Elon Musk’s political implication and his role Doge front. The Tesla crisis not only manifested outside doors. The Sales fall And the growing discontent among employees have triggered an internal crisis between the template unprecedentedputting Elon Musk in the center of the hurricane. Employees They claimed Elon Musk’s departure of the company’s management. That petition has resulted in dismissals, but not that of his CEO. An unsustainable situation even for the template The internal tension reached its peak when a group of Employees from Tesla, both current and old, decided to publicly express their discontent with the management of the company. They did it through an open letter Published on the Web “Tesla Employees Against Elon”. In the publication, employees and small shareholders who had been part of the Tesla staff directly requested the departure of Elon Musk as the company’s CEO. “We are at a crossroads: continue with Elon as CEO of Tesla and face a greater decline as customers leave the brand, or advance without it and allow our products and mission to succeed or fail for themselves,” he explained in the workers’ statement. The signatories They pointed out that the damage Musk’s personal brand is “irreversible” and that his figure as the maximum representative of Tesla has become In a load for the entire template. Employees reproach their main manager His intention to “rename” In the Tesla direction, and they consider it “insulting” for being an explicit recognition that Tesla’s problems are the result of its neglect of functions at the head of the company. “Let’s be clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service and delivery teams are not the problem. The problem is demand. The problem is Elon,” said the statement. More electric, but less Tesla While the electric vehicle market grows at a good pace, Tesla’s sale figures do not give signs of recovery. In Spain, the brand already registers falls of more than 16% and none of Tesla’s models appears among the 10 best -selling electric cars In Spain. According to data April of the Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers (ANFAC) The electrified tourism market grew 79% last month, which represents a 6.5% sales increase with respect to the same period last year. The phenomenon is not limited to Spain. Reuters echoed the latest data from the global electric vehicle market, which in April had grown by 29% year -on -year, despite uncertainty for tariffs imposed by the US. The US electric car market also records upward values. The data of Cox Automotive indicate a Growth of 18.5% In the volume of new electric car sales month by month, while the Tesla market share fell five points to 42%. The data announced in its presentation of Results of the first 2025 quartercorroborated this downward trend. The manufacturer delivered 336,681 vehicles, which represented a 13% drop with respect to the same period of the previous year, when almost 387,000 units had been delivered. As the employees pointed out in their open letter, “this is not due to the fact that our cars have worsened. It is not due to affordability problems. But to the fact that people no longer want to associate with Elon. Production marches better than ever. Quality is high. Processes are solid. Demand is what fails. It is not a product problem. It is a Leadership problem“ Tesla’s response: layoffs Tesla’s address to the publication of the letter was immediate and forceful. According to published Business Insiderseveral critical employees with Musk They were fulminating. This manufacturer’s reaction has generated even more Fear and self -censorship Within the company, reviving accusations of repression and contradiction with speech “Absolutist of Freedom of Expression“That Musk itself defends publicly. One of the most prominent cases is that of Matthew Labrot, former responsibility of Sales and Delivery Training of Tesla, and one of the main drivers of the protest. Labrot declared in Business Insider Being a passionate defender of Tesla, but was fired in less than 24 hours after the open letter on the website and participating in the protest under the motto “Pro Tesla, Not Elon!”, whose Account in x It has been suspended. Despite having lost his job in Tesla, Labrot says that “I still believe firmly in the company and in the objective we pursue”, but maintains its critical position with the Musk’s negative influence in the company and in its public image. In Xataka | If the question is which car will not leave you lying on the road, the German experts are clear: the electric Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore, Geoff Livingston)

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