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The Starbucks CEO wants everyone to work to the office. It is easy for him because he can go in private jet

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Back to Starbucks. That is the name that Brian Niccol, the current of CEO of the popular coffee shop chain, put To the plan to revitalize the company. It is an ambitious plan and that, among other things, has meant a change of course as far as teleworking is concerned. Since 2023, Starbucks workers have maintained a hybrid format Three days in the office, two at home. That will end because, soon, will be four mandatory days. It is a novelty that is seen very differently when you go to the office in private Jet, of course. Let’s start at the beginning. Of coffee tacos. Niccol was CEO of Taco Bell until 2018. The headquarters of this company is in Irvine, California, 15 minutes by car from Niccol’s house in Newport Beach. In 2018 he left Taco Bell to exercise as CEO in Chipotle, whose headquarters was in Denver, 1,600 kilometers from his residence. Three months after assuming the position, Chipotle changed its headquarters to Newport Beach affecting 400 people in the process. In 2024, and after revitalizing Chipotle, Niccol assumed the CEO of Starbucks With conditions that did not go unnoticed. Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos: The Galaxies War Brian Niccol | Image: Starbucks To the ophi yes, but I don’t move. The Starbucks headquarters and therefore the workplace of its CEO is in Seattle (Washington). As a company employee, he also applied the policy of going at least three days to the office. The distance that separates the headquarters from your home is 1,600 kilometers, but that is no problem because The offer contemplated that “you will not be asked to move to the headquarters of the company”. So… It will not go by car, clearly. They are about 19 hours of journey, According to Google Mapsbut fortunately the job offer established that Niccol could dispose of the company’s private jet for “business -related trips according to the company’s travel policy, travel between its city of residence and the headquarters of the company in Seattle, Washington and its personal trips according to the company’s policies, up to a maximum amount of $ 250,000 a year.” Image | Starbucks Three four days. Now that we know the context, we will surely see in another way The letter that the CEO has recently published. In this text, Niccol explains that from next fiscal year employees will have to go to the office four days instead of three. Specifically, from Monday to Thursday. At the moment, this dynamic will affect the regional offices of North America, the Toronto support centers and, of course, the headquarters in Seattle. If you are a boss, to the office. In February, Starbucks asked the VP level team and managers who worked in Seattle and Toronto. Now that requirement will also apply to support centers, whose leaders will also have to move to these cities. And all this why? According to Niccol, the reason to reestablish this office culture is that “we work better when we are together. We share ideas more effectively, we solve difficult problems creatively and move much faster.” Between lines can be read that an increase in productivity is sought. The CEO affirms that it understands that not everyone will agree with this measure, “but as a company based on the human connection, and given the magnitude of the change we have ahead, we believe that this is the right path for Starbucks.” So clear it has that the future goes through the office that, in its own words: “If you decide to leave Starbucks for any reason, we respect it. To support those who decide to” leave “, we are offering a unique voluntary output program with a cash payment for the partners who make this decision.” Two rhythms. This is not a problem for Niccol (to which this policy should also be applied). Has All the company’s resources at your disposal To travel and, according to a company spokesman, a house has been bought in Seattle. This already shows that The return to the office is made at two speeds: that of employees, which can be forced to move to a more expensive city, give up promotions or even leave the company; and that of the senior executives, who can afford to travel in a private jet or buy a house in the city that proceeds. Cover image | Tr In Xataka | Starbucks made a very strong bet in China to continue growing. Tariffs threaten to take it ahead

When the bosses already value at the same time they do not work in your free time

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More and more companies recognize the importance of their employees Disconnect from work to improve your well -being and Avoid exhaustion. After all, it suits them since that way Improve productivity. However, a New study It has confirmed the existence of a significant contradiction: although managers value their employees to take breaks and maintain a good balance between working and personal life, they usually penalize those who make use of those limits. The detachment paradox. The study carried out by researchers from the University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong and the Spanish IE Business Schoolanalyzed how managers perceive employees disconnect of work in your free time. “We only analyzed what happens when the worker should not work, such as the afternoons, on weekends and vacations,” said Elisa Solinas, co -author of the study. OK To what is published in Hardvard Business Reviewthe experiment had 7,800 participants, in which managers evaluated fictional employees who in a version took measures to disconnect from work and in another not. The results showed that, in their reports, managers recognized that those who disconnected from work during the weekend, returned with more energy and better performance. However, in the evaluations, they constantly described them as less compromised, even if they were more productive than those that did not disconnect. Even if you are the best, do not rest. The data suggest that the feeling of reproach of managers towards employees persisted even when the employee was a direct subordinate of the manager, when the employee who was disconnected was objectively better in his work and even when he disconnected for a justified reason as take care of a relative. As they stressed in HBR, managers tend to identify Availability with effort and commitment. “Our studies show that the commitment is valued almost more than productivity. In short, we seek to perceive that a worker is really committed, and that is what, in fact, we reward more than productivity,” declaredBuechel a Fortune If you take care of yourself, you don’t ascend. The experiment revealed that, in addition, 62% of managers considered that those employees who put limits between working time and staff were less likely to be promoted, despite recognizing that their productivity could be greater. A bias that too It was given on teleworking. As Eva Buechel explained, co -author of the study: “The same people who said that workers were going to be more productive also said they were going to be less promotable.” This bias reflects that, although the disconnection and rest improve health and employee performance can negatively affect the perception of commitment and professional opportunities since employees who respond outside your working hours or that their vacations skip are seen as people who strive more. The cost of not disconnecting. The pressure to always be available generates negative consequences. According to data from A studyMade by the Glassdoor Employment Portal, exhaustion reports increased by 32% year -on -year during the first quarter of 2025. Employees who claimed to feel exhausted have shot themselves above 50% if it was counted since 2019. “Even if a satisfied or high -performance employee can support a greater workload without impact on its productivity or in its satisfaction during a short period, that does not necessarily mean that it can do it indefinitely,” wrote Daniel Zhao, author of the Glassdoor report. Benefits of taking a break. A meta -analysisLed by Ryan Grant, a PhD student in Psychology at the University of Georgia, he found that the revitalizing effects during free time are actually 85% greater than what was suggested in different studies, and their benefits can be extended up to 43 days after the holidays. Grant points out that the disconnection capacity “was the only recovery activity that had a strong positive association with well -being, both during the holidays. This suggests that the more you disconnect yourself psychologically from work during your break, the better your vacation will be your vacation and the greater your benefits for well -being later.” The scientific evidence It corroborates Grant’s conclusions on the benefits in the mental health of employees who separate work time and leisure time. Disconnected by law. Countries like Spain and Australia have created a legal framework to guarantee the Right to digital disconnection Out of working hours. The regulations not only exempt employees from responding to any message or call of their work during their rest time, but penalize companies that carry out these practices. What the legislation cannot regulate is the perception that managers have of those workers who comply with the work schedule that appears in their contract. In Xataka | Bill Gates’ five errors that led him to improve at work: productivity is not everything Image | Unspash (DFY)

How to make a cover for a report or work with artificial intelligence

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Let’s tell you How to create a cover for a report or work using artificial intelligence. For this work, you can use any AI that is able to generate images from your text requests, such as Chatgpt, COPILOT, Gemini or another similar. The process to make this type of covers is quite simple, and it is easy for the results to be relatively good. However, it is convenient to take into account a couple of things. We are going to tell you first a Prompt quite simple for you to use, and then we will give you the advice to be taken into account. Cover for your report or work with AI To create the cover for a report or work, you can use a simple prompt or request, carefully describing what you want That appears. We have left this one: Make me a cover for an artificial intelligence report. The title of the report is “(Title: Subtitle)”. The work is signed by (author), and you must include a drawing of (cover image). As you can see, it is a fairly simple prompt, where you can include a title and subtitle. When asking for a title, you can first put what you want it to appear big on the cover, and after two points what you want to appear in small. You can also add one or more authors. In addition, you will also be able to ask the AI ​​that Generate an image for your work. Here, you are in charge of you decide the image to use, you can make it simple or you can recharge your background to set it. Describe all the details you want them to appear in the event that you want to add them. Do not be afraid to make a very long requestin fact I recommend that you do it so that IA takes all the details. If you don’t like the result, You can include a request below indicating the changes you want to do. In this prompt you do not have to rewrite all of the above, because the AI ​​will already take it into account as long as you are in the same conversation. In Xataka Basics | 22 useful and not so well -known free artificial intelligence tools

How to add bibliographic quotes and references in a work or report with artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain How to add quotes and bibliographic references in a work or report with artificial intelligence. Creating appointments with AI is quite easy, and you will be able to do so with Chatgpt as with COPILOT, Deepseek, Gemini or any other chatbot. To create the citations, you will only need the bonding bond or reference you have used As a reference for your work. Then, at AI you can ask you to use it, and then you will generate the text using different summons formats. Remember that it is still easier to use Tools to cite your bibliographyalthough the AI ​​is gradually arriving there. Create appointments for university jobs with AI To create bibliographic appointments and references in a job or report you only have to use a very simple command For AI. Basically, you have to ask you to make an appointment, and add the link or reference used. The prompt that we have used is as follows: I want you to believe me a citation for a university job of the link/book (reference) When you write this command, You must specify what kind of appointment is itif it is a web link or a book. And then, where we have put (reference) in the prompt put the link to the web or the name and author of the book. Only this will be enough. When you do, The AI ​​will create several appointments in several summons of summons. In fact, it will put both the reference to put in the bibliography and the way you must add the appointment within your text. You can also ask for concrete citation styles. You can specify it in the main prompt, but you can also ask for it later. You shouldn’t even put all the full prompt again, if after the answer you write something like “and in Harvard style?” Within the same chat, the AI ​​will know that you mean citations, and will generate one in the format you ask. You can also add several links To believe you several citations. For that, tell him something like “I want you to believe me a citation for a university work of the following links/books”, and then Chatgpt or the chosen AI will tell you to go ahead, and you can respond with the list of links. In Xataka Basics | 22 useful and not so well -known free artificial intelligence tools

A work in front of Casa is unvoyable for everyone. China has a solution: inflatable domes

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Anyone who has lived them knows: works can be as annoying as necessary. That they build a hospital, a school or a shopping center next to the house can be a blessing, but it is preceded by months and more months (not years) of dust, noise and a continuous coming and going of excavators, cranes and trucks. In China they have decided to save the neighbors that annoying toll of A peculiar form: covering the works with gigantic inflatable domes. AND (faithful to his style) He has also decided to do it in a big way. What happened? That China has had An idea so that the works generate less discomfort to houses, schools, parks, churches and other buildings that surround them: encapsulate them. Literally. Its proposal consists neither more nor less than inflarous ‘bubbles’ that cover the entire extension of the works, temporary domes that reduce noise and dust that the neighbors usually suffer when workers, trucks and excavators begin to move. The objective: less impact was while operators work inside. From theory to practice. The use of large inflatable domes is not exactly new. In autumn of 1971 Ibiza already hosted an ephemeral city created with plastic inflatables, Instant City. If the Chinese initiative is news, it is because of its approach (it seeks to minimize the impact of the works) and especially because it has gone from the theory to the facts. And big, in addition. In Jinana populous city of the East of China that acts as the head of the province of Shandong, just deployed an XXL inflatable dome as part of the Honglou 1905 project. According to Precise Huanqiuthe promoters want to build a large commercial complex there, but they found that the plot in which the works must be developed is in an area full of life, the district of Licheng, near a church, the Shandong University and an institute, in addition to numerous buildings. Thus, the question was obvious: how to get the works forward without the noise, dust, dirt and come and go of trucks to ruin the daily life of the entire neighborhood? An ephemeral ‘cathedral of 50 meters. The answer revealed it A few weeks ago Dazhong News: Those responsible for the work deployed a large inflatable dome 150 meters long, 100 wide, 50 high and a total area that moves between 20,000 and 30,000 square meters to cover the works. As is. The structure is formed by a PVDF membrane, a very fine material that operators deployed on June 12 with the help of fans. “The outside of the film is a network structure made of steel cables that keeps it together and then fixes it to the concrete beam at the bottom,” Wang Luren clarifiesHonglou Project Manager 1905. Under the dome there are no columns in addition, which allows operators to move comfortably. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Less dust, less noise. Those responsible for the work ensure that the “ bubble ‘reduces dust emissions by about 90% and cushion in more than 80% the noise of the works. It is also water resistant, which facilitates work during rainy months. However, the idea is that the dome is used during the first phase of the works, while the work progresses at zero level. For now, it has already served the government to breastfeed. A few days ago none, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, He presumed that Jinan’s inflatable dome is “the largest in the world.” And insisted: its purpose is to “create cleaner and more silent construction spaces, minimizing the impact (of the works) in the surrounding communities and the environment.” To emphasize the message he published a video of the deployment that have reproduced media such as TN either Gulf News. And what about workers? The dome may reduce the discomfort of the works between the neighborhood, but … how does it affect the operators that will work inside? If dust and noise do not go outside, do they accumulate in the structure? Won’t it affect temperature? The initiative has raised similar questions, but the promoters ensure that the bubble is also designed for workers. “Avoid high temperatures” .Luren says that the PVDF membrane blocks 90% of ultraviolet rays and the structure includes a breathlessness at the top to guarantee ventilation. “We will also adjust the construction cycle to, as far as possible, avoid high temperatures.” A spray system and fog cannons will also help the accumulation of dust under the membrane staying at “a reasonable level”. The roof is also igniphed, is designed to support storms and snowfall and is completed with a system that allows their responsible to adjust the environment. Images | X (mao none) In Xataka | China is moving whole buildings at the same time to build underneath. Because? Because it can

Some researchers created a company where all employees were AI agents. They did not make a quarter of the work

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With a generative AI that already shows Signs of decelerationthe next great jump already glimpses on the horizon: the AI agents. Unlike chatbots, an AI agent can be given a complex task and will act independently, making decisions on the march to achieve their goal. Everything pointed to the fact that 2025 was going to be the year of the agents ia And, to verify it, some researchers did A curious experiment: They put several of these agents to work in a fictitious company. It didn’t go very well. A fictitious company. The study was conducted by Benegie Mellon University researchers and sought to measure the effectiveness of the AI ​​agents. In it, they created an environment that pretended to be a small company dedicated to the development of software to which theagentcompany baptized. The company had 18 employees and an objective plan for the sprint quarterly. In addition, they had enough internal documentation such as an employee manual, human resources policies or good practices guide. Employees communicated through a Slack type chat program for communication between them. He Staff. The AI ​​agents who put to work in Theagentcompany included Google, OpenAi, Meta and Anthropic models. They were assigned roles such as Financial Analyst, Project Manager or Software Engineering. A technology director and a human resources manager were also created to which each agent could contact if they need it. Among the tasks they had to do was write code, search the Internet, open programs or organize data on spreadsheets. Quite typical in a company of these characteristics. The problems. The agents began to work and at first everything was going well, but it soon appeared problems and misunderstandings. One of the agents had to access information, but a popup appeared on the screen and could not see it. Although I could close it by clicking the X of the upper right corner, he asked for help to human resources, which told him that the computer department would soon contact him to solve it. He never contacted and the task was not completed. The agents also developed a curious behavior when they were not clear what were the steps to follow. Sometimes they cheated and created shortcuts to skip the difficult part of a task. For example, an agent did not find the person who had to ask a question. What he did was change the name to another user for that of the user he had to ask. The results. The employee medal of the month was taken by Anthropic and his Claude 3.5 Sonnet model. But, although he was the best, he only managed to complete 24% of the tasks assigned to him. Germini 2.0 Flash and Chatgpt only completed 10% of the tasks and the worst employee was Nova Pro 1 of Amazon with 1.7% of completed tasks. The most common failures were caused due to lack of social skills and not being well looking for the Internet. The threat of AI agents. According to the last World Economic Forum Reportthe AI ​​will destroy more than 90 million jobs in the next five years (although it is also expected to be created almost twice new positions) and AI agents have a threat to many jobs. However, experiments like this show that technology is not yet ready to replace 100% of a human employee. Currently, AI agents They make many mistakes And, like Tesla’s Autopilot, for now it is better Do not remove your hands from the steering wheel. Image | Gemini In Xataka | The workers have stopped fear of AI as a machine to destroy jobs: software engineers do not think the same

make it work like a chestnut

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I go out, I take the phone to answer some messages while consulting an address on Google Maps. It doesn’t take even five minutes in burn. I spend my life by analyzing mobiles, and I begin to analyze the possible reasons why this is happening (taking into account the little detail that I live in Andalusia and jump from the bed with more than 30 degrees in the street). They all have something in common: My phone is too good. The power. One of the factors that most influence the thermal performance of a telephone is its processor. At the moment, Power has gone out of hand with which high -end phones. Although The architecture of the new chips Divide the chip into groups according to use (large nuclei and tragons for complex functions, small and efficient nuclei for simple functions, not to complicate much), not even enough. In the most powerful mobiles, the smallest nuclei are equivalent to the largest nuclei of cheaper mobiles. One way to save this headache on the mobile is to go against the countercurrent and save it, stay with the fair power. The “gross” mode to do so is to activate directly Energy saving modein which processes in the background are capan and the power of the processor is reduced. The most appropriate shape depends largely on the customization layer we use. In phones like Samsung’s we can even Adjust the performance profile What do we want. The screen. The war for the nits of the screen It has an inevitable consequence: that mobile phones burn in summer. Illuminating a panel is one of the most expensive processes at the energy level for any type of device: it requires many efforts not only to illuminate, but to maintain shine. This is the reason why, surely, you have appreciated that In summer your mobile screen shines less. There is not a single mobile that can maintain its brightness peak in moments of heat, so getting used to a lower brightness in summer will prevent the mobile from hot. This is something completely incompatible with Automatic brightness functionsince this will always try to make the screen shine to the maximum outdoors (although not late than a few minutes to drastically lower when the mobile detects that it is burning). The camera. Summer and camera are practically synonyms, but I have bad news again: it is another functions that makes the mobile hot. Reasons? The camera activates your phone resources, since it needs to be fast. Memory works quickly, needs to save large amounts of data in seconds. Made the photo or video, someone has to process it. And that someone is your mobile with those resources that are already beginning to be exhausted. Solutions? Avoid high resolution shooting modes, Rawrecord in resolutions like 1080 for not too many minutes, not use apps that squeeze the camera to the maximum and, ultimately use the camera to capture fast memories without going too high. The connection. In summer we travel, we move. And moving has a consequence in which we almost never repaired: Changes in coverage. In areas with bad connection (beaches, mountains, remote places), The internal modem You have to work much more to try to stay constantly connected to any network you find. This translates not only in heat, but in much higher energy consumption. Advice? If you do not have coverage, put the phone in plane mode, and force the 4G connection from the settings if you are in an area where the 5G connection is quite unstable. Use. This last section is one of the most important, since it is easy to think that “an intensive use” only refers to recording 4k 60 fps and playing the heaviest game for our mobile. Connect car to Android Auto / Carplay during travel hours. Use Instagram on the street, with the mobile in full sun and brightness to the fullest Video calls through any app Have Google Maps / Waze / Apple Maps in the background to obtain indications while we use other apps The most daily use can be the most intensive, and there is a basic standard to prevent the phone from hot in summer: how much less processes at the same time, the better. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Summer is hell for any mobile. These are my three keys to protect it from heat

Fix your work schedules looking at the clock instead of the thermometer

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I leave home at 4:00 p.m. and, armed with value, I go to pick up the car from the mechanic. It has ended with him and Previous reviews They have the collapsed workshop, so he asked me to pick it up as soon as possible. On the portal, I cross a neighbor who enters the stifled street, with his forehead peeled by droplets of sweat and defeated attitude, as if he had loaded a heavy slab. “It’s hot?” – I tell him knowing already an answer, “he has always been hot in summer, but this is hell,” he replies. “Who comes up to the street with the heat it does,” I say while I open the door of the portal and take a step back remembering the apocalyptic vision of Sarah Connor Abrasada by nuclear flames in ‘Terminator ‘. Has always been hot in summer According to The data Aemet, it is true that as my neighbor had told me, has always been hot in summer…But not so much. The temperatures recorded in recent weeks leave last June as The warmest of the historical seriesand joins the long list of records of extraordinarily warm months. NASA itself He supported with data that they are now warmer than those of yesteryear, taking into account that their records date back to 1880. In addition, these heat episodes are increasingly frequent because summers are increasingly long. On average, it is estimated that the climatological summer has been stretching between four and fifteen days per decade. Our grandparents adapted While it is true that Spain has always been a country with hot summers, there is a factor that we should not overlook: today We do not face the rigors of heat as our grandparents didbecause we We do not change our working days depending on the temperature as they did. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that “in her young years”, it came out before the field was made to work the earth “with the fresh” before the slab of the heat of the Andalusian countryside fell on the day laborers. At noon, when the sun tightened, they sat down under a chaparro (oak) to eat in the shade and then nap until early in the afternoon. Then, they went to the farmhouse in which he worked and performed there other tasks of cleaning, maintenance and care of animals until the end of the day. ALWAYS TO THE SUN CAKE. In winter they usually did the other way around and reached the field when the frost had dissolved. That is, they took advantage of the first rays of light to perform the toughest agricultural tasks to avoid high temperatures and rigor of the sun in the hours of greater insolation. As much as it was the mowing, harvesting or planting season, they tried to avoid the central hours of the day, and instead, they advanced or delayed their working days to adapt to the weather. There was no one closed and strict schedule For the whole year. On the other hand, at present, the Adaptation of the tasks and working days It is minimal and the schedules have been standardized. It doesn’t matter if it is an office, mason or mailbox work, and it is not taken into account whether on the street it is freezing or mercury marks the 46 ºC. The schedule is the same for everyone throughout the year. Heat -inflected hours This standardization of schedules makes it normal for an employee of the Municipal Maintenance Service, one of the groups that most work accidents and Deaths due to heat blows has suffered In recent daysbe cleaning the sidewalks at two o’clock in the afternoon in full wave of heat, or that an installer is placing a label on a facade at three. According to data from the Carlos III Health Institute facilitated By the National Institute for Work and Health at Labor (INST), it ensures that per year there are about 1,300 deaths attributable to heat. Around 4% of fatal accidents that occur in the workplace are caused by heat blows due to prolonged exposure at extreme temperatures. The most exposed professions are those that cannot develop their main outdoor activity: agricultural sector, cleaning operators and public works, assemblers, construction workers or gardeners. Thermal stress also affects professions that develop indoors that due to the nature of work, they are exposed to machinery or heat sources such as industries, hospitality, laundry, greenhouses, etc. Andalusia, Catalonia, Madrid, Aragon and Galicia They are located At the head in terms of mortality due to heat, coinciding in many of those cases with personnel used in the sectors that we have mentioned before. Unlike our grandparents, these sectors now have fixed schedules that, in many cases, develop between 8 in the morning and 18 hours, leaving them exposed to work during those hours that our grandparents tried to avoid at all costs. The tools are there Approval in 2023 of Royal Decree Law 4/2023 He came to make the adaptation of schedules and tasks that already enjoyed our grandparents, so that companies, rather than look at the clock, must look at the thermometer to design the working days of their employees during extreme heat episodes. The Occupational Risk Prevention Law It offers companies to modify schedules and even cut the working days during these heat episodes to protect their employees. In addition, following the Dana that razed Valenciathe Law was extended Adding the possibility of having a four -day paid permission when, in extreme cases, the working day cannot be adapted and it is impossible to carry it out without exposing itself to a real health risk. The last modification also contemplates the possibility that companies can benefit from a climate ERTE. “No one has to take risks,” insist From the ministry. However, despite the tools that allow companies Protect the health of your employeesthe National Institute for Safety and Health at work ensures that occupational accidents during heat waves … Read more

Five lives have been charged at work for not taking prevention measures

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Spain is living Your first heat wave of the year And, with her the reminders about him High risk of heat blows and other occupational accidents such as high temperatures results. Spain is traditionally territory acclimatized at high temperaturesand therefore it tends to belittle the risk of exposing yourself to the sun or ignoring the episodes of high temperatures. At the moment, the four days of the heat wave that punishes Spain It has already been charged The life of five workers For heat blows, according to The latest data of ccoo. Work abroad and poorly conditioned places. According to CCOO information, four of the five victims killed in accidents at work, showed Symptoms of having suffered heat blows as a consequence of performing outdoors and hours of maximum exposure to heat. The fifth deceased was inside an industrial ship without sufficient ventilation or thermal protection, which makes these facilities Horn during the summer and in fridge during the winter. According to collected statements by him Eldiario.es “He said that his head hurt and that he was going to the service. When they went to look for him he was lying on the ground, they tried to revive him, but he had died.” Sources of CCOO said that “the ship has a plate roof, it is not divided and does not have air conditioning, so the heat is concentrated. José had told us that they were very hot in summer and cold in winter, and we had denounced it to the company.” Prevention is not a whim. After the modifications of the Occupational Risk Prevention Law applied in 2023 by the Royal Decree-Law 4/2023a series of prevention measures designed specifically to protect employees during the increasingly common episodes of high temperatures were established. Unlike other occupational hazards, heat episodes They are predictable Thanks to meteorological forecasts, so companies can (and must) apply action plans to adapt to them. In article 4.2 of the Workers Statuteit is established that the company must guarantee employees “their physical integrity and an adequate policy of occupational risk prevention”, while the Occupational Risk Prevention Law It demands that companies “take appropriate measures for the protection of workers who work outdoors or in places that cannot be closed.” In addition, the regulations contemplate the extreme to be able to temporarily cancel work activity “in those cases where the proper protection of the working person cannot be guaranteed.” It all starts when the Aemet gives the notice. 2023 regulations establish that the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) will be responsible for establishing the alert level that forces companies to activate different protocols by high temperatures. When this organism activates the alerts of orange level or red level by episodes of high temperatures, companies of the affected territories For that alert they must activate their Occupational Risk Prevention Protocols due to thermal stress. Such and As I remembered The Minister of Labor and Social Economy, that activation indicates that companies are bound by law A: Facilitate time flexibility or redistribute the day To avoid maximum exposure hours. This is achieved well advancing the time of entry or delaying the usual departure time, as well as changing the activity to adequate interior areas or with lower exposure to high temperatures. When it is not viable to adapt the working day, the company can choose to reduce the day during the alert periods, being able to recover that adjustment time when the heat episode ends. The most drastic measure is the total interruption of the working day when none of the previous relief measures can be applied, but it is mandatory if the climatic conditions can put the health of employees at risk. Interior heat prevention. Not being exposed to the direct sun does not mean that heat strokes cannot occur, especially in places like kitchens o jobs in which you are exposed to heat sources. He Annex III of Royal Decree 486/1997of April 14, establishes the minimum provisions of safety and prevention of thermal stress for work that must be carried out indoors. In general terms, limits between 17 and 27 are established for sedentary work and between 14 to 25º for light jobs, as well as sufficient ventilation and air conditioning systems for Maintain that temperature throughout the working day. Responsibilities and obligations. In case of extreme heat episodes, the regulations establish that companies are responsible for the application of adequate prevention measures to protect employees from thermal stress. Failure to comply with that responsibility involves sanctions for the company ranging from 2,451 euros to 49,180 euros for infractions considered serious, and up to 983,736 euros for very serious infractions. On the other hand, employees have the obligation to ensure compliance and denounce their breach, in addition to adopting Other additional protection measureshow to maintain a Adequate hydration although it is not thirsty during the most heat episodes and respecting the rest times in fresh places. In Xataka | There is heat wave, you work less: what does the law say exactly on the workday under extreme temperatures Image | Unspash (Nik)

“If you want to leave at 5 you are not at the right work”

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The debate on the balance between working and personal life has gained strength in recent years, especially Among the new generations They are looking for one greater flexibility and well -being. However, new Figures by Silicon Valley as Lucy Guo, millionaire and co -founder of Scale AIThey discard that balance hugging a much more demanding work culture, inspired by the Chinese labor model known as “996” (From nine in the morning to nine at night, six days a week). He is not the only founder who is doing it. Guo, who recently It was recognized by Forbes As the youngest millionaire made to herself, she has made her Extreme workday An example to follow for other startup founders. His lifestyle is generating an intense debate about what professional success really means in the technological era. The founder’s passion for work The co -founder of Scale AI, and CEO of Passes Since 2022, he does not believe in the balance between working and personal life. Tal and counted In an interview for Fortune“I probably don’t have a good balance between my working and personal life. For me, work is not really work. I love doing my job.” This perspective has led her to defend the working hours of up to 90 hours a week as The new standard for those who aspire to succeed in the world of startups. Guo argues that, if a person is looking forward to five in the afternoon to go home, “you may not have the right work.” According to his experience, true motivation arises when work feels like A natural extension of lifenot as an obligation to escape when the day is fulfilled. According to what he told FortuneGuo The day begins At 5:30 in the morning with an intense exercise session. By nine in the morning he is already in the office, and lunch on his desk, without leaving the office. His workday ends towards midnight, when he finally closes his laptop and goes to sleep. Even working 90 hours a week, he says he finds “one or two hours” to be with family and friends: “You always have to find time for that, regardless of how busy you are.” One of the reasons that Lucy Guo keeps in that “always available” state is his obsession to offer the best customer service in his startup. She herself gives her team only five minutes to respond to customers before doing so: “Offering exceptional customer service is what distinguishes the startups from large technological ones. Even if you have fewer customers, it is very possible that the executive director responds to everything, which increases the fidelity of the people. Today, it is impossible for an executive director like Uber’s. That is my mentality,” Guo explained. Although it may seem an extreme approach, Guo is not alone in this way of working. More and more Ceos de Silicon Valley are hugging models that They demand their employees Days of more than 80 hours per week, convinced that passion and total dedication are the Key to success in the technological sector current. The “996” takes over Silicon Valley The traditional work culture of China or Japan, which linked work with values ​​such as honor, respect or loyalty ended up deriving in a culture in which employees They fell collapsed in their workplaces after supporting long days. Days they obeyed to the “996” model in which the long days do not leave time to rest, live, socialize or form a family. There is only work. This philosophy, to which He is getting veto In the main countries that promoted it for its social impact and demographicis now openly defended by founders and CEOS de Silicon Valley, who consider that It is the only way to highlight In an increasingly competitive global market. The drift of Silicon Valley towards this model eternal days is not new. In 2018, Michael Moritz, president of the Capital Fund Sequoia Capital, did An allegation in it Financial Times On how Chinese technology companies carried the concept of hard work at an unthinkable level for Silicon Valley. “Here, the senior managers get to work around 8 in the morning and, often, do not leave until 10 at night. Most do it six days a week,” Moritz praised. Reference companies As a goal either Microsoft They are hardening the Performance assessments of your employees to Encourage them to work harder. The opposite path that Companies have started of those countries that They already know the effects to apply such extreme days. Europe threw up to the wave The “996” wave is also expanding to Europe, where some technological founders rise as apostles of this new labor current, arguing that Europe is sentenced to a secondary role if more hours are worked on. Some countries already They have bought that speech. The Swedish Joel Hellerk, CEO of the Sana Labs artificial intelligence company, He said to his employees that “60 hours per week is the ideal point”, making the message that Serguéi Brin He had imposed In Google. Harry Stebbings, founder of one of the main risk capital investment funds, I also advocated for the “996” day model. “7 days a week is the necessary speed to win right now. There is no margin for the slip. Do not compete against any German company, etc., but against the best in the world,” Stebbings wrote in Your LinkedIn profile. In similar terms, Martin Mignot, a partner of Index Ventures, expressed a risk capital fund based in Switzerland. “Forget about 9 to 5, 996 is the new standard for startups”, wrote in LinkedIn. Nevertheless, There are also discrepant voices With this turn of Silicon Valley and Europe for hardening the working days. Suranga Chandratillake, principal partner of the British investor Balderton Capital, pointed out that this approach was counterproductive for the growth of startups. “All versions of this publication that I have read are of risky capital investors who have never created a technological company. I remember well … Read more

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