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In Asturias someone paid 37,000 euros for the most expensive cheese on the planet. Then he fell to the ground

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There are expensive cheeses, very expensive cheeses and then there are the cheeses that are sold by the whopping 14,800 euros per kiloas they just checked in Asturias. There, in the town of Arenas, they just proclaimed the most expensive cheese on the planet, a piece of 2.5 kilos with Denomination of Protected Origin of Cabrales that, after the Plant of the judges, has reached neither more nor less than 37,000 euros On a bid. Shortly after the auction was on the ground. Don’t say cheese, di cabrales. Asturias is known for many things. By Your cider, Your houndsits beaches, its mountainous places and also (and rightly) for its cheese. The Cabrales is one of the gastronomic icons of the Principality and to claim it Arenas de Cabrales has celebrated every summer, for decades, A contest which usually arouses interest both inside and outside the region. The appointment is not famous just by giving visibility to Dop Cabrales. The contest arrives accompanied by a bid for the best cheeses in which amounts of infarction are reached, assumable only by privileged pockets. Offer are so high in fact that they have managed to make a place several times in the pages of the Guinness book. It has happened Other editions. And it has happened again in this. A figure: 37,000 euros. The Arenas de Cabrales appointment is divided into several parts. First the jury decides which of the title aspiring cheeses is the best, it has a more attractive aspect and offers better flavor and aroma. Then that same piece goes to auction and businesses interested in taking her to her pantries pujo for her at the crossroads worthy of the Sotheby’s house. In this edition (the 53rd already) the starting price was € 3,000 and participated near a dozen hoteliers from different parts of Asturias (Gijón, Oviedo and Castrillón) and Madrid. The winner was Iván Suárez, owner of El Llagar de Colloto, in Oviedo. It didn’t have it easy. Last year Suarez had already taken home winning cheese by 36,000 eurosa figure that this year exceeded slaughtering. A Madrid cider house matched the figure, another Gijonesa rose the bid to 36,500 and the owner of El Llagar de Colloto ended up setting up the dispute when lifting his palette to offer the whopping of 37,000 for a piece of about 2.5 kg. Himself I calculated which came out at € 14,800/kg. Records at full speed. The truth is that Cabrales accumulates records at more speed than the Guinness organization is capable of digesting them. New Spain remember that this will be the fourth consecutive world plusmarca of Asturian cheese and if you consult The web From the Guinness World Records you will find the curious chance that just two months ago those responsible echoed that the most expensive cheese on the planet is a cabrales auctioned in Asturias for 36,000 euros. It is not a mistake. It is simply the brand that the DOP reached in 2024. It has already been outdated. Does Cabrales cheese have a roof? That is The question That some media have been made in recent days, especially if you take into account the speed with which the offers have grown by the winner of the Arenas contest. The Europa Press agency remember That the winner of this edition already disbursed 14,300 euros in 2018, 20,500 in 2019, 30,000 in 2023 and 36,000 last year, a figure that has been pulverized by the 37,000 of 2025. In the price, however it goes more than the value of the product. The bid is also a huge advertising showcase, both for the Dop Cabrales and for the winning hotelier. Of headlines and anecdotes. “The head of having the most expensive cheese in the world is what leads to this. In the end if the cheese had cost 20,000 euros instead of 37,000 because yes, it would have been the winning cheese of the contest, but we would not have worldwide news, we would not open the news, nor would we have international recognition, which is what we all look for, Suárez confesses to The voice of Asturias. Interestingly this year he has monopolized holders by Another reasonmore anecdotal … and juicy. After winning the bid the Ovetense hotelier rose to collect the piece proud and when he lifted his arms to show the tray the cheese drained and finished falling to the ground. An anecdote that the businessman was taken with humor. The cheese, he explained, will divide it into three parts: For his father, for him and his family and for his clients. In cave already 1,500 meters. Record prices and anecdotes apart, the main protagonist of the contest was the cheese that elaborated the winning piece: Ángel Díaz Herrero, by Tielve. Its representative, Encarna Bada, remembers that the cheese is made with cow’s milk and mature for several months at 1,500 meters of altitude in the Los Mazos cave. “It is the coldest cave, it has little cheese and matures more slowly. It is the caves that give the flavor to the cabrales, because factors such as moisture, temperature and height influence it,” Explain. The task is not simple. Bada acknowledges that going up and down with cheese pieces is arduous work because to the area “They don’t even get cars” To transport them in fact they have to resort to horses. What there is no doubt is that your technique and know how to do work: last year The same cheese managed to win the coveted first position of the contest and, incidentally, settle his name in the Guinness. Images | Wikipedia and Javier Lastras (Flickr) In Xataka | Russia is becoming a teacher in the elaboration of European cheeses. And it is due to the sanctions of the West

Hundreds of Microsoft employees have shared their salaries and we already know how it is paid in AI or azure

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It is one of the most anticipated times of the year for Microsoft employees: where they are received Double increases and payments. And as it is almost a tradition in great technological ones, transparency (sought or not) emerges. Hundreds of employees of the Redmond company They are sharing their compensation data on a spreadsheet Collaborative that already has more than 850 entries and has been analyzed by Business Insider. An anonymous and voluntary document. This initiative has emerged from the employees themselves so that everyone knows the salary reality of their company. And also to see The big salaries in Silicon Valley. This is filled without anyone knowing what an employee charges from the company. And what is included in the spreadsheet offers a fascinating look at Microsoft’s salary structure, detailing the base salary, bonuses and actions of shares. And he does it at a crucial moment for the company. The war for talent in the era of AI. These data are not used in a vacuum. Microsoft is in the middle of An aggressive campaign to attract and retain the best talent in artificial intelligencean effort that has promoted its income to record figures. The company does not hesitate to get the checkbook, reaching try to sign rivals talent as a goal With millionaire offers. Although, on the other hand, beat record in layoffs while getting large amounts of benefits. Something a bit incongruous. In fact, Microsoft has applied new salary guidelines this year with specific exceptions to be able to compete more aggressively in the AI ​​market. This occurs in a paradoxical context: despite having fired thousands of workers, the company insists that its global workforce will remain stable, indicating that the hiring plans in strategic areas remain at full speed. The key salaries exposed. Although compensation in the technological sector depends largely on the actions, the base salary is a key indicator to compare the strategic importance of the different teams within a company. Based on the analysis of almost 300 software engineers in the United States, within the spreadsheet these are the average base salaries in one of Microsoft’s most important divisions: Cloud + AI: 204,135 dollars Commerce + Ecosystems: 191,597 dollars Security: 189,285 dollars Azure: 176,035 dollars Experiences and Devices (includes Windows and Surface): 175,123 dollars Microsoft AI: 170,456 dollars Xbox: 168,831 dollars Koreai: 167,759 dollars Record extract made by Microsoft employees with their salaries. A fascinating look, but with nuances. Now, you have to take this data cautiously, since they are not official or exhaustive at all, since it represents a very small sample Of the total of 219,000 employees that Microsoft has right now. In addition, it is completely voluntary and anonymous information, so it could be adulterated. On the other hand, it is likely that employees with the highest wages or higher positions are less likely to participate in this type of collaborative documents, so the figures could be lower than the real average of the entire company. An interesting fact that underlines the source consulted is that all these salary ranges self -declared by current employees tend to be lower than those that appear in the official guides of Microsoft itself for new hiring. This could confirm that bias or simply reflect the aggressive policy of the company to attract new talent with very competitive initial offers. Great salaries in the technological environment. It is known that if you are a good programmer or technological expert the salary will not be bad. In the case of Spain it is known that Salaries can reach 170,000 eurosbut outside our borders, the engineers specialized in AI They are becoming the best paid in history. Therefore, there are already many future options for those who want to enter this world, being interface designers who will surely be better paid. But above all the departure to Europe is almost mandatory to have a good salary. Images | Boliviainteligent In Xataka | Microsoft has secured its future with a very simple AI strategy: copy what Amazon did with the web

200 people paid to see a drone show in Valencia. The problem is that the event did not exist

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Shopping Tickets Online for an event that you have seen promoted on social networks and, when you arrive at the place and time where it should be held, there is nothing. This is what dozens of people have lived in Valencia, but it is happening in several areas such as the Booking accommodation or Airbnb. What happened. According to the complaint of an individual who collects the EFE agencyabout 200 people were on August 15 to the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia to go to a drone show event. They had paid 17 euros for each ticket, a price with reasonable appearance. The problem? Although the complainant victim received confirmation notices of purchase of two tickets by SMS, when there was no festival or event of drones. Everything was the result of an online scam, the police told the attendees. And the worst part is that there has also been ticket sales for days 21, 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31. The medium. According to the complaint, the false event was promoted on Instagram, which boosted its reach despite the fact that the festival did not appear in any public calendar of place activities. For the scam, According to Drone Show Festivalwhich are event organizers (but free) with drones, used images and videos of their shows Attendees thought it was something real seeing that there are companies like FLOCK DRONE ART They are dedicated to this. The notice was not enough. Both Drone Show Festival and the official account of the City of Arts and Sciences sent messages in their Official channels warning that they were not organizing any drones festival in the complex. They did it on June 14 in the morning and in the afternoon, day and a half before the false event was celebrated. However, that did not prevent dozens of people from being gathered in full heat wave. Click the image to access the publication. More false events. The scam with drones is not thought only for Valencia. The promotional publication also announced events in Seville, Barcelona Madrid or Bilbao. From the Union of Consumer of Valencia, they affirm that They will denounce the facts before the National Court This week, as well as the General Directorate of Consumption of the Generalitat. They have called for affected people, and have offered to process the relevant claims for free. Online scams are triggered. According to the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), in 2024 More than 97,000 cyber attacks were recorded16% more than in 2023. The problem is that that year there were already Growing up 24% compared to 2022. According to the institution, in 2023, three out of ten incidents were online fraud. In 2024, they already supposed more than four out of ten. Of the 38,000 fraudulent indications, the Phishing It remains the most problematic technique, with 21,517 cases, and among the trends of public consultations by telephone or WhatsApp, the Vishingthat technique with which the attackers make calls supplanting various entities such as companies of light or telephone operators. Of the 38,000 fraudulent incidents, the itals for Protect ourselves from scamshow to avoid buying on websites that we do not know, for cases like this of the drones, where everything seemed correct a priori, the recommendation is to review additional details to those offered by the seller. Concert enclosures, theaters or events such as the City of Arts usually have a public calendar where all acts officially organized. Taking a look at the program is a quick step that can avoid a great posterior headache. If we have already been victims of a scam, It is recommended denounce the National Police, Civil Guard or contact the INCIBE itself. Images | FLOCK DRONE ART Y Northleg Official in Unspash In Xataka | Not happy with saturating email, spam and scams are now arriving at your postal mailbox

It is better than ever for having perfected the psychology of the habit paid

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Duolingo has just presented Spectacular results: 41% more income, 40% more active daily users and benefits that have fired 84%. The platform of Language learning Not only does it maintain its growth after more than a decade in the market, but it accelerates it. It is clear that their model works, since more and more are those who prefer to pay to maintain their streak, even if this implies not progressing in learning, an irony. The paradox of its success. It is curious that an application that promises to teach you English, French, German, and dozens of languages more, prosper even so much when there are few precisely those who criticize their learning method. Do not be misunderstood, Duolingo does very good things, and if people also give new languages and knowledge, better than better. However, the key that your business model is working so well is that Duolingo does not sell as much knowledge and feeling of progress. And of course, a need to maintain the streak is generated, taking advantage of all the bonuses that are missing before they give 12 in the morning to keep us hooked. The daily dopamine of the habit fulfilled, the satisfaction of maintain Fiscal results They corroborate it. The aspirations business. Duolingo has perfected something that characterizes many current technological products: monetizing aspirations rather than solutions. As air fryers that we buy convinced that they will make us eat healthier, or Meditation applications that promise us mental peace, Duolingo sells the improved version of ourselves. The difference is that it does so extraordinarily effective, turning the desire to learn a language into an addictive habit of daily consumption. The winning formula. The company has found the perfect balance between gamification and social pressure. The gusts, leagues, owl notifications … Everything is designed to pay the premium subscription feels as a necessary investment not to lose progress. It doesn’t matter so much if you really learn Italian and what you feel you are doing. And that constant advance perception is valuable enough to justify that monthly expense. And to see, I as an old Duolingo consumer in order to learn Turkish, I attest in which their mechanisms are really addictive (spoiler: I left the Turk at half). Beyond languages. Duolingo’s latest movements confirm this strategy. The firm is not only enough to monetize the sensation of learning with languages. And it has also expanded its offer With chess courses and have acquired A musical game startup. It is not about becoming the best Online Language Academy, but the final platform of the daily educational habit. Each new subject to which we sign up under the umbrella of Duolingo seems to be an opportunity to expand that microtransactions and rewards ecosystem that uses users hooked. Cover image | Generated by ia with chatgpt In Xataka | Boring tasks have had a solution all this time: you just had to turn them into levels of a video game

He has just paid 1.5 million to expand the electricity grid until its fifth datacenter

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If you pass through the A-23 at the height of Huesca and see operators opening a new underground channel for the electricity grid, you are seeing the new fat cable of Amazon. The company founded by Jeff Bezos continues to expand through Aragon With your data centers. Check me a cable here, literally. The last movement of the technological giant is an investment of almost 1.5 million euros to connect the electricity network to its future data center in the Walqa technology park, on the outskirts of Huesca. According to him Official Gazette of AragonAmazon Web Services (AWS) has projected the construction of an underground line of 1.4 kilometers that will pass under the A-23 highway and the N-330 road to take 15 kV of tension to its future center. This double circuit will connect the PHUS electric substation with the Amazon plot in Walqa. A project of 714 million. The new AWS Data Center in Walqa will occupy about 70 hectares. Construction work began at the end of April on old poultry farms. Amazon has planned a total investment of 714.6 million euros in this complex., One of the five new data centers that will be built in Aragon, adding to the existing three This center of Huesca is one of the five new data centers That AWS is going to build in the community, adding to the three already existing. The other four will be located in the Burgo de Ebro (two) and Villanueva de Gállego (two). All of them will be interconnected by a dense fiber optic network, functioning as a single and powerful “AWS region.” The Amazon Empire in Aragon. The abundance of cheap renewable energy, the available soil and regulatory facilities have consolidated Aragon as a digital hub of southern Europe. And Amazon is one of the companies that is most expanding in the area. The three locations that form the triangle of the EU-SOUTH-2 region of Amazon Web Services a data center in the Walqa Technology Park (Huesca), two data centers in the Burgo de Ebro (Zaragoza) and two other data centers in Villanueva de Gálgo (also Zaragoza). The three are expanding with five new buildings, in addition to electricity and fiber optic lines. In total, Amazon plans to occupy 354 hectares in Aragon. Not only Amazon expands in Spain. With one planned investment of 15.7 billion euros For the next decade, AWS is the data company that grows the most in Spain, but not the only one. Microsoft has announced investments of 6,690 million euros in Zaragoza and of 1,950 million in Madridwhere Oracle and IBM are also expanding. One of the most recent landings is Malo, which at the end of 2024 announced an investment of more than 750 million euros in a 190 hectares campus in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo). Also looking for soil and renewable availability. Image | AWS In Xataka | Amazon, Google and now also goal: the data centers industry is still shot in Spain

A list of the best paid CEOs leaves us a figure of how the salary of managers has risen since 1978: 1,085%

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The Wall Street Journal publishedThe list of the best paid CEOs of 2024. The list itself already presented some curiosities. For example, the fact that, surprisingly, CEO of great technology that accumulate stock capitations Superior to the GDP of some countries, they are not found in the top positions of this list. However, its publication has put the table on the table Huge salary difference which exists between the figure of the company’s executive director and the average salary of its employees. A study of Economic Policy Institute He has investigated The evolution of this difference and has discovered that, since 1978, CEO wages have increased 1,085%. He Salary of its employeeson the other hand, it has only done so by a fraction of that percentage. The CEO who won the most in 2024. According to the list published by The Wall Street Journal Based on public remuneration data of the companies of the S&P 500, the best paid executive in 2024 was Rick Smith, CEO of Axon Enterprise that bases their business on the manufacture of electricity weapons of defense or taser. Smith received no less than 164.53 million dollars in 2023. Just behind, we find some old acquaintances of this type of listings. Lawrence Cup, as CEO of General Electric pocketed 88.95 million, or Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone that received a bonus of 84 million dollars. To find What some of the technological CEOs chargedwe must go down to the fourth place that Tim Cook occupies after receiving a salary bonus of 74.61 million dollars. Rico worker, poor worker. Beyond the salary that each company wants assign its managers For the achievements, there is the background of the salary gap between the managers of those companies and their employees. In this case we are not talking about a senior manager should charge the same as its employees, but, proportionally, the remuneration of managers have increased to a greater extent among members of the board of directors than among their workers. In your report, The researchersof the Economic Policy Institute They point out that between 1978 and 2023, the executive directors of the main companies of the S&P500 have increased their remuneration by 1089%, while the average salary of their employees has done so in 24%. Exponential growth from 90s. The data reflects that the increase in these remuneration to managers has not been linear and progressive, but shot between 90 and 2000, remaining at those levels since then. Putting the focus between the salary of the CEO and the salary average of its employees, between 1964 and 1978 an executive director charged between 15.4 and 23 times the salary of its employees. On the other hand, between 1978 and 1990 that figure amounted up to 44.9 times and, from 1995, that figure is triggered until reaching levels of 398 times the salary of its employees reached in 2000. Since then, the successive economic and financial crises have made me make that That figure oscillates between 330.2 times and 190.6 times higher than the average salary of its employees. The elite inside the elite. This increase has not only occurred among the general labor mass of the workforce, but the CEOs have become a kind of elite among the elite. The study analyzes the evolution of CEO remuneration With respect to salaries of 0.1% that charges the most in companies, and here they have also marked differences following the same pattern as with the rest of the workforce. Between 1964 and 1990, the CEO charged between 2.6 and 3.1 times more than 0.1% of better paid employees of its workforce. However, from the 90s that difference is triggered until reaching 9.2 times in the 2000s, and reaching 9.4 times the salary of the best paid employees registered in 2021. What counts is your influence. The authors of the study suggest that the astronomical salary increase of the CEO is not due to their worth making business decisions, but responds to a consideration for the weight of the manager on the Board of Directors. How much greater is its influence And power at that board is its salary. “There should be meetings of the Board of Directors where people ask: ‘Can we afford to pay less to our executive director?’ assuredto The Washington PostDean Baker, co -founder of the Institute in charge of the report. An example: Elon Musk in Tesla and his enormous capacity to influence a board of directors formed by personal friends, former collaborators and even his brother Kimbal. Thanks to this ability to influence the Board of Directors, the CEO can negotiate more generous remuneration than when they submit to the scrutiny of people without direct linking. According to the authors of the study, this capacity for influence may have made the CEO establish salary increases for faster managers, “concentrating income in the highest and leaving less profits for common workers.” A salary detached from the results. At this point, it is easy to think that this increase is due to the fact that the CEO of those companies They have been geniuses that have taken companies to their best historical dimensions and that is why they are rewarded. However, the data They tell us something else And the researchers confirm “the salary increase of executive directors does not reflect an increase in the value of skills or in the contributions to the productivity of companies,” says the EPI report. In 2024, for example, the best paid manager was Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, with 161.74 million dollars. The Board of Directors justified its salary bonus because the company had managed to double its stock market value. However, Badrinarayanan Kothandaraman, executive director of Enfase Energy, received compensation of $ 19.52 million while his company left 50.1% of its value. Bag balls. To try to correct that dynamic, from the end of the 90s and 2000, many companies assigned company shares As part of the salary of its managers. The study data reveal that, in … Read more

There are already French asking for back the money they paid for their teslas. And the reason has a name and surname

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“Some customers no longer dare or do not want to use their vehicle.” With this phrase summarizes Patrick Klugman, lawyer for a future demand against Tesla in France, the feeling of his represented. A group of Tesla owners accuse the company that its public image has directly affected its vehicles and, of course, themselves. This is what they argue. Enjoy. That is, exactly, what the 10 Tesla owners who plan to denounce the company for the possible damage caused by the damage to the public image … of the company itself can not do with their vehicles. They ensure that Elon Musk’s political approach to the extreme right prevents them from circulating with tranquility, as explained to Le Parisien. Among the future plaintiffs are stories of all kinds. There is the one who says that one day he reached his car and found that he had been vandalized with the graffiti of a swastika. In other cases, they point to moral damage because they are owners who feel “betrayed”, in the words of lawyer Patrick Klugman, who is behind the defense of these consumers. “A Responsible Eco -Ciudadean approach”. Thus, they ensure this dozen owners, who received the company when they were made with one of their vehicles. “It was a 100% electric brand (…) buyers were willing to pay more money for their car to participate in the ecological transition … This vehicle (Tesla) became a sample of commitment,” explains the lawyer. They claim that with Elon Musk’s approach to the extreme right and the brand’s image degradation they cannot have a “peaceful possession” of the vehicle. A detail that is key to the demand that they want to present that, they point out in the middle, it cannot be defined as “collective” for the moment. Despite this, the lawyer encourages every owner who wants to add to the cause to accompany them. What are they based on? As we said, that “peaceful possession” is key. This is collected in the Article 1625 of the Civil Code In France. It specifies: “The guarantee that the seller owes to the buyer has two objects: the first is the peaceful possession of the thing sold; the second, the hidden defects of this thing or the prohibitive vices” To this “peaceful possession” is to which the owners of the Tesla grab ensuring that given the attacks against the vehicles that extended a few months ago and the reputational loss of the company, they do not dare to take the car out to the street or, to do so, they cannot enjoy it with the same conditions that were sold. What do they claim? The ultimate intention of these owners is simply that they return the purchase money or that the loan they maintain with the company is canceled if they are paying the car in installments. Bad image. What is clear is that Elon Musk’s passage through the United States government has seriously damaged the public image of the company. From the protests before your company’s concessionaires to direct attacks against their vehicles. But, above all, the company has seen how its sales have sunk into what we have been for the year. The problem is especially serious in Europe. In its two main markets (Germany and France) their sales are on the floor. Right where issues related to extreme right and the Nazism are more sensitive among public opinion. To this is added the increase in the second -hand market of Tesla cars. Beyond that some influencers have shown publicly How they got rid of their carsIn France the volume of ads selling second -hand Tesla cars shot in the first months of 2025, to the point that increased 30% Regarding the ads published in the first half of 2024. Photo | The White House and Felipe Tofani In Xataka | There is a shopping center that is becoming famous for one thing: Tesla is piling up the cybertruck that does not sell

The best paid CEO in the US is not in Apple or Tesla. It is a complete stranger of a company that you had not heard

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When we think of the CEOs Better paid on the planet Surely we repeat a small group of people at the controls of some of the great technological corporations that dominate the present. We would not be unchanged in figures such as Tim Cook, Satya Nadella or Mark Zuckerberg, but none of them approaches the emoluments received by the Jafazo best paid in the United States. The curious thing about this story is that you have not heard in your life or the CEO, nor the company it directs. A complete stranger at the top. In an environment, that of the great corporations, dominated by omnipresent names such as Tim Cook, Elon Musk or Jensen Huang, the title of the best paid CEO of 2024 did not fell in any of them, but in an executive practically unknown to the general public: James Anderson. As? Yes, the man is in charge of COHERENTa technological company based in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the manufacture of network and laser systems. Anderson received a total remuneration of 101.5 million dollarssurpassing by a wide margin to figures such as Brian Niccol de Starbucks or Satya Nadella de Microsoft. Its impressive salary package positions it as the only CEO of the Ranking of Equila (which analyzed the 100 companies with income greater than one billion dollars) to exceed the barrier of the nine digits in compensation, in a year in which the average salary of an CEO reached a record of 25.6 million dollars. The stock market effect and a distortion. Although Anderson has a base salary of little more than one millionits incorporation to Coherent in June 2024 made its remuneration in cash be limited to only $ 81,538, along with a signature bonus of half a million. The rest, 99.4% of its emoluments, came from a Actions package whose value was shot unexpectedly. The reason: the enthusiasm of the market after the announcement of its appointment catapulted the price of coherent shares, thus generating an inflationary effect on the value of its shareholding concessions. The company, in Your proxy reporteven recognized this paradox: the actions were valued using a 30 -day mobile average that did not reflect the posterior stock market explosion, which artificially amplified the amount of the package. In addition, the payment included compensation for the loss of deferred actions accumulated during its previous stage in Semiconductor Laticewhere it was considered key in the exponential growth of the stock market value. The Top 10 of 2024 Domino effect. The impact of his Latetice departure and his arrival in Coherent was immediate. On the same day of the ad, the market value of Latice fell 15.5%which represented a loss of 1.6 billion dollars, while Coherent shares rose 22.9%, adding about 2,000 million in stock market capitalization. Since then, Coherent has maintained sustained growth, while Latice has retreated 34%. To all this, we must add that Anderson, Electrical Engineer With titles of MIT, Purdue and the University of Minnesota, it has a proven history: During their management in Lattice, the actions rose more than 875%, exceeding by broad margin to the S&P 500. In other words: its reputation as a silent transformer seems to have become an asset as valuable as any product line. The era of actions as salary. In the background, Anderson’s case illustrates a Dominant trend In contemporary executive compensation: retribution in shares represents near the 73% of the average total salary of the ceos, According to equilationwith a 41% increase compared to the previous year. This form of remuneration, linked to stock market performance rather than immediate results, has allowed to justify very high compensations, even in companies where the benefits do not always accompany. For example, Summit Singh, Chewy CEO, He received 35.1 million in 2024 Although the actions of the company 60% fellthe worst performance of the entire list. In contrast, Jensen Huang, from Nvidia (the firm with Best stock yield of the year, with an increase of 215%) received 34.1 million, although Your personal fortune It is estimated at 92,000 million thanks to its shareholding of 3.5%. Map of “tech” salaries a year earlier Benefits, security and inequality. There is much more, of course. In fact, in addition to wages and actions, many CEOs enjoy luxurious additional benefits. They counted in Barrons That Tim Cook, for example, received more than $ 780,000 in personal security services and another 655,000 on private flights. Starbucks, meanwhile, provides its CEO flights exclusively in private jets. Plus: This type of expenses has become more common due to growing concerns for security, especially after UNITEDHEALTH GROUP CEO Murder in a street in New York. In fact, a parallel study of equilation shows that almost a third of the S&P 500 companies already offer some type of executive protection, in this case a 28% increase Regarding 2023. The enigma Elon Musk. Yes, you may have realized that The richest man The planet has not appeared much until now. Elon Musk, although absent from the ranking because Tesla He has not presented Even your proxy report is still a key figure. Its previous ten -year compensation plan, approved in 2018 and currently valued in about 70,000 millionwas canceled twice By a delaware judge and now awaits a resolution in the state Supreme Court. This episode, together with the growing disconnection between real performance and executive remuneration, has fed criticism about the lack of effective controls in corporate wages. As Dean Baker summed upco -founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, “there is no real control over what is paid to the CEOS”, adding that many are not extraordinary, although they are paid as if they were. Citing these days, Warren Buffett, I remembered: “I try to invest in companies so good that even an idiot can direct them, because sooner or later, someone will do it.” Reflection of an era. In summary, at a time where salary inequality and wealth concentration generate increasingly intense debates, Anderson’s story It represents both … Read more

The Ministry recalled the existence of paid permits

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Spain has lived a Unpublished day in its historyafter him Mass blackout which kept the entire Iberian Peninsula including Portugal. The incident forced a good part of public transport services, as well as at the close of many companies before the lack of electricity supply and possible security problems. Given this unpublished event, the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy issued several communications through its profile in the social network X in which it remembered the workers: “The Government guarantees the protection of working people in the face of electricity supply problems. Blooded permits are available for affected workers.” Remunerated permits by force majeure As happened with the DANA or other adverse phenomena, the ministry reminds the workers that the Workers Statute It provides special coverage for cases classified as force majeure, preventing companies from retaliation in the form of layoffs or salary sales for this reason. In article 37.3 section G, which addresses the regulations on weekly rest, parties and permits, the statute of the workers establis Imminent, including those derived from a catastrophe or adverse meteorological phenomenon. “ As they remembered from the Ministry, they are covered by the permission paid for causes of force majeure: Because the official recommendations of not moving if it is not strictly necessary given the serious traffic incidents that left streets and roads without light signaling and the great traffic jams that this caused, this article of the Statute of the Workers is applied. In addition, the regulations also collect the assumption of doing the work remotely provided that the networks allow their development, something that could not always be carried out before the fall and saturation suffered by the entire communication network throughout yesterday’s day, and The impossibility of feeding computers. Although most of the services have already been restored with the return of the electricity supply, the official communications warn that, during the day today, Incidents can still be registered In the different services, so it is possible that, in some cases, today they can also benefit from that paid permit when it is not possible to move to the workplace. However, despite the incidents in transport that may remain to be resolved in transport, communication networks remain operational, so the remote work option is viable when possible. In Xataka | Work in times of climate emergency: the government promotes new permits and labor protocols after the DANA Image | Unspashy (Aaron Betts)

The best paid Spanish manager in the world does not work in a great technological: sells “sugary water”

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Maybe his name does not sound to you at all since, unlike Tim Cook, Jensen Huang or Satya Nadella, Ramón Laguarta does not direct a great technological. However, for seven years he has been the helm of one of the world’s largest brands in the world: Pepsico. Or as Steve Jobs would say: sell “sugary water“ According to the published data By Pepsico before his shareholders, the Catalan Ramón Laguarta, president and CEO of Pepsico, has established himself as the best paid Spanish manager in the world. The best paid Spanish CEO in the world. As you collect The environmental environment Five daysin 2024, the total remuneration of Laguarta reached 28.8 million dollars. This salary milestone positions it well above other executives of large corporations, both in Spain and globally. Despite having reached this milestone, 2024 has not been the most lucrative year for Laguarta. According to records From the AFL -CO union, in 2023, the manager charged 33.9 million dollars, which meant 648 times the average salary of its employees. However, Ramón Laguarta is not the only Spanish manager at the head of an American multinational who receives a millionaire remuneration. Joaquín Duato, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, He received a salary of 24.3 million, seeing its compensation reduced in 2024 compared to the 28.4 million that was pocketed in 2023. For his part, Enrique Lores, first HP executive, received a Salary compensation total of 19.4 million dollars. Laguarta’s salary. Actually, Laguarta “only” received 1.76 million as a salary, which represents a 4% increase with respect to the same concept of 2023. In addition, the CEO received a bonus of 11 million dollars in company shares and metallic incentives of 6.8 million dollars. In this concept, the company has applied a significant cut with respect to 2023, when it received 13.4 million dollars. To this figure, we must add 8.7 million dollars more in pension plans and other deferred remuneration, as well as $ 500,000 for personal expenses. Among personal expenses, the Use of private plane of the company. The sum of all these amounts corresponds to the aforementioned 28.8 million dollars that the manager pocketed in 2024. Although their total income was reduced by 15% with respect to 2023, Laguarta continues to stand out as one of the best paid managers, and the Pepsian Board of Directors stood out in Its presentation of annual results The solid leadership of its Spanish CEO in turbulent economic times. A “sugary water seller”. Laguarta occupies the position of president of Pepsico since 2018 and assumed the presidency of the Board of Directors in 2019. However, his career within the company began in 1996, when he joined the Spanish subsidiary of the company after a stage in front of Chupa Chups. A decade before the arrival of Laguarta to Pepsico, Steve Jobs He told John Scullyat that time CEO of Pepsico, one of those phrases that have remained for posterity: “Do you want to sell sugary water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?” It should be noted that, in English, the expression ‘Sugar Water’ is also used to refer to something bland, without substance. As if being the Pepsi CEO was something unimportant. There is no doubt that, in the case of Laguarta, directing a “sugary water” company has turned out to be very lucrative. However, the Apple CEO salary It continues to be better: in 2024, Tim Cook received 74.6 million in retribution. Point for Jobs. In Xataka | In 1985 Coca-Cola changed her formula when Pepsi was about to defeat her. It went wrong In Xataka | The best paid CEO in the world is Elon Musk, but its salary is 1 dollar: the great bonus of the bonus Image | Unspash (Nikhil), Wikimedia Commons (Qwertyfry38)

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