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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

38% want to have sex at work

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At this point, we are clear that the Z generation conceives working and personal life from a very different perspective How previous generations did. For newcomers to the labor market, the balance between work and private life not only includes a better balance between working and personal lifea survey reveals that it also seeks to normalize sex in the office, something that until recently was taboo in the professional environment. Teleworking made everything easier. A survey Prepared by Edubirdie, he asked 2,000 young people from generation Z about how their sexual relations were in the current context of change of teleworking model just around the office. 47% of respondents assured that teleworking He had improved his sex life. Being at home, they could better combine their sexual encounters with the workday. On the other hand, 36% said that the return to the office was going to harm their sexual life because they were going to lose that time flexibility for coincide with their partners. In contrast, 14% said just the opposite, that working from home had reduced their sexual encounters. 37% confessed that teleworking had not changed anything in their sexual life. We do not know if that is good or bad. Return to the complicated office. Daily displacements have not turned out the hardest From the return to the office. 30% of the young people surveyed said that having to go to the office conditions the schedule For their sexual encounters and forces them to schedule their sexual appointments in advance, while 70% are not worried in this regard and prefers to leave these experiences at random of the moment. On the contrary, 29% of the youth of the Z generation they have responded, consider that coinciding with other colleagues around the work environment Increase your options To have sex. Greater social interaction. The data show that 42% of respondents feel more confident and attractive when flirting with their classmates while working, while 18% confess that the socialization options provided by the face -to -face contact helps them to lift the mood. On the other hand, being out of home and away from their partners can also impact on their sexual appetite. As for frequency, 40% of young employees do not expect changes with the return to face -to -face work, while 16% claim to be too much Tired when you return home And that reduces the number of relationships. 20% confirms that going to the office does not share so long with their partner, which reduces the time they dedicate to having appointments. “Private” spaces in the office. However, the most surprising fact of the study is that a wide 38% of the young people would want to have a private space in the office for intimate meetings or, say, “Self -care“ This indicates that, to attract and retain younger workers, companies must offer more than free fruit or coffee. The paradox: they are the least “affectionate” generation. Beyond the sexual aspirations demonstrated by the participants in this survey, the paradoxical is that Other previous studies They have shown that gene generation maintains less sexual relations that the previous generations. According to the data collected by the National Family Growth Survey (NSFG) that is carried out periodically, asexuality shot between 2017 and 2023. The data suggests that 10% of men and 7% of women between 22 and 34 years old, that is, of generation Z, never have had sex. 24% of men and 13% of women in that age strip did not maintain sexual relations in the last yearfigures that are much higher than a decade ago with 8% and 9% respectively. If the abstinence period is limited to the last three months, 35% of men and 31% of women say they have not had sexual encounters. Sexuality without taboús. The data of both studies lead to think that although it is possible that generation Z can have less sexual activity than previous generations, seeks to integrate sexuality into their lives at all levels (including the work environment) in an open way, reflecting a deep cultural change. However, the normalization of sex at work can contribute to setbacks in the fight against sexual harassment in the workplace that still records very worrying levels. In Xataka | Norway is giving 2,500 euros in tax cuts to its young people. In return they have to work Image | Unspash (Luke Miller)

Germany believes having found the most German solution to its productivity problems: work more

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Germany has been considered for decades as The economic locomotive from Europe. However, currently It crosses a crisis that has surprised analysts and experts. The model that allowed the country to prosper with reduced working hours and shoot its productivity, seems to have reached its limit. German leaders They look for new formulas To recover lost growth and have found a possible solution: work more. Germany works little. In recent months, the economic debate has intensified without the German responsible having found the key to getting out of the economic stagnation. However, from the business circles of Bavaria, southeast of Germany, they point out that it could be something as simple as increasing annual work hours. The formula: eliminating one of the religious holidays of the German calendar. According to published the newspaper Welt, Federal Foreign Minister Friedrich Merz would agree with this statement: “In this country we have to work more and, above all, more efficiently,” said the president in a few words that Later he clarified “But in Germany we have groups, especially among the youngest generation, which work a lot.” They have tried everything. The pilot tests of the four -day work week They have not achieved the Productivity impulse that the country needs. Foreign Minister Merz recently warned: “With the four -day week and the balance between professional and personal life we ​​will not be able to maintain the prosperity of this country,” declared The German Chancellor to I monde. This statement has generated discomfort in a society that has always been considered hardworking and disciplined. For decades, German workers have enjoyed shorter working hours compared to other European countries, especially those in the south. This situation was justified by high productivity and added value of German products and services, which allowed “doing a lot.” However, the economy fails to take off and the government now points to “lack of work” and “preference for leisure” as factors that are ballasting economic growth. Eliminate holidays. Before this panorama, some voices of the business have proposed concrete measures to increase the working time Without increasing working days daily, which in many cases are already more than 40 hours due to the enormous load of overtime. According to published BildBertram Brossardt, general director of the Bavarian Business Association, suggested to eliminate, at least one of the holidays that the Germans have. “Easter Monday, Monday of Pentecost and San Esteban. My colleagues in France and Italy are constantly surprised that we have those free days. Removing one of those free days would greatly benefit the German economy and would not mean a heavy burden for employees,” said Brossardt, adding that “religious festivities should not be taboo in the debate.” The data support it. The proposal is not just symbolic. Christoph Schröder Researcher at the German Economic Institute (IW) He maintains that Eliminating a holiday could increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Germany by up to 8,600 million euros. According to published The avant -gardeMichael Hüther, director of the IW, gave as an example the case of Denmark, which had recently eliminated a holiday “that was an additional income of 400 million to the state budget,” said the economist. The problem is that all federal states in the country, regardless of setting their own holidays, should agree to abolish it. Germany to the tail at hours worked. Brossardt’s arguments rely on blunt data. In 2023, a German employee worked an annual average of 1,343 hours, which is 92 hours less than in Austria, 186 hours less than in Switzerland and 391 hours less than in Italy, According to OECDE data. “We are not productive enough. If we want to be competitive, we have to return to work more!” said The businessman to the newspaper Bild. Despite these figures, Germany is not the country with more holidays. On average, the Germans enjoy 9 national holidays, although in some southern regions such as Bayern, Basen-Württemberg or Saarland can reach 12 holidays. In comparison, Austria and Malta enjoy thirteen holidays. In Spain, the usual are twelve, with some autonomous communities such as Catalonia, Community Valencian and Navarra add 13 holidays; Ceuta has 14 holidays a year, while the Canary Islands conform to 11 days. Average weekly hours worked in each country The problem is not the days. Such and as he published The confidentialsome experts do not believe that eliminating a holiday is the solution for the German economy, but that the country must face a change in its labor market to recover the productivity of yesteryear. Germany is the second European country where less hours work a week in full -time jobs, and the figure drops even more if the Part -time contracts. According to official dataone in two women works part -time in Germany. Therefore, some economists propose Encourage the incorporation of women to the full -time labor market and facilitate the arrival of more foreign workers to relieve the shortage of qualified labor. The key, according to these experts, is a deep review of the German labor market to adapt to the new challenges economic and demographic that supposes the Agence of the active population. In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the working day in Spain: the same thing that 40 years ago is worked, but in worse jobs Image | Unspash (Mashkumar Painam, Spencer Davis)

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