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Thus has changed the way of working after the pandemic

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Five years have passed since the Covid-19 pandemic marked a before and after in the way we work, forcing companies and employees to quickly adapt to New work models. Five years later, studies like that of the Gallup consultant and WFH Research have documented how these transformations have impacted the work environment: from the Award and drop of teleworking to the challenges related to the Mental health and commitment of employees. Evolution of remote work to hybrid. According to Gallup data, in 2019 60% of employees with Ability to telework They went to the offices five days per week. 32% already made it alternating face -to -face and remote work days. A model that we now know as hybrid days. Before everything changed, only 8% worked in a way completely remote. At present, data on the working day point to greater more diversity. According to Gallup, 55% of the 400,000 employees consulted work in a hybrid modality, 26% teleworking full -time and 19% remain exclusively face -to -face without options to telework at all. WFH Research data is more conservative in their estimates, assigning 25.7% to hybrid models, 12.9% to full -time teleworking, and a crushing 61.4% for face -to -face work. Stagnant since 2023. According to data collected by WFH Research, the number of working days that have been held from home have been stable since the beginning of 2023, representing 27% of the total days worked. Instead of prioritizing the increase of these remote work days, both studies confirm that employees give priority to maintain time flexibility. At present, an average of 2.3 days per week is worked remote, being the most common day to work from home. However, WFH Research data revealed that on, many occasions, that remote work occurred to compensate that on Friday it had later entered or left before the time, adding that flexibility component. Rock makes love. Gallup data revealed that the levels of employee commitment They have suffered a notable fall since the beginning of the pandemic, reaching a historical minimum in 2024 that places the employee commitment At 2014 levels. According to this index, 31% of employees felt committed to the values ​​and objectives of their company, while 17% showed actively disconnectedwhich implies being in a Silent resignation situation. In 2019, 55% of employees consulted by Gallup knew exactly what was expected of them, while, in 2024, it is a percentage barely reached 44%. In the same proportion, the alignment of the values ​​and the culture of the company registered between the employees has fallen before the pandemic, which stood at 38%, while in the updated it barely records 30%, indicating the detachment of the employees and the Lack of template cohesion. It is more complicated to retain talent. One of the direct consequences of this detachment is the difficulty of companies To retain talent. According to Gallup, the percentage of employees who feel they are thriving in their company went from 60% in 2019 to 50% in 2024, accompanied by record levels of negative emotions such as the Stress and exhaustion. This impact has been more pronounced Among young workerswho tend to experience higher levels of burnout and pessimistic evaluations about Your quality of lifeplacing them in a situation of high probability of employment change. In 2024, 18% of employees claimed to be fully satisfied with their current job, while 51% were thinking of changing jobs or were in Active search for a new job. Exceeding the levels that were recorded at the end of 2019. Managers have made a difference. The data collected in five years of surveys by the Gallup consultancy have revealed the importance of communication management and Leadership of intermediate positions and managers. Those companies with effective leadership have managed to maintain the company’s work culture, evolving with the changes that have occurred in these years. On the other hand, those companies with managers who have not known how to adapt To the new tools and a changing environment, they have suffered to retain your templates for the deterioration of its employees’ commitment. In Xataka | “They are much more daring.” Image | Unspash (Jason Goodman)

It is a strategy and it is working

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Work and pleasure are often Like water and oilthat are hardly mixed. However, LinkedIn has tried to break the laws of physics (labor) integrating a series of games into a social network very focused on the professional and workplace. At first that squeak a little slide through the Timelineof LinkedIn hoping to find publications of a former partner who has changed their jobs, or that a company is looking for candidates for cover a vacancy And suddenly, zas! A publication in which your co -worker presumes to have achieved the maximum score in a game. But, we hadn’t come to talk about work? Surprisingly, the play of integrating games is working very well. You do networking, you are looking for a job or … you start a game In May 2024, the company announced the integration of a series of free games accessible to all users registered on the platform. However, we talk about a corporate platform, so its focus is not offers triple A games, but maintain their productive spirit. From LinkedIn they point out that the objective of his social network “has always been to connect professionals around the world to make them more productive and successful. And, like the work world has changed in the last 22 years since the creation of LinkedIn, This has also done the way people connect with each other. “ That change of habits in communication and in the way to face the working day It has served as a support lever for the social network to pivot towards a more playful approach. “The objective of LinkedIn games is to encourage professionals to take a short break from work and stimulate their mind, while motivating them to connect with others,” they point out from the company. A recreation for the brain The catalog of LinkedIn games It is not very extensive. It is limited to four simple titles at a graphic level, but that propose different challenges at the mental level and a good dose of cognitive skills. Among the games that LinkedIn has integrated are: CrossClimb: A question and answers game in which you have to use clues to correctly guess each word of the stairs. The goal is to form groups of words based on tracks, in which only one letter differs with the previous word. Once you have organized the correct sequence of words, the clues will be unlocked for the beginning and end words. And the challenge is to decipher the words as quickly as possible. Pinpoint: It is a word association game in which you should try to guess (or “locate”) the common category or theme that unites a set of words. There are five clues to find out this common category. The challenge is to guess the category with the least possible number of revealed tracks. Queens: It is a logic game in which you have to fill in the grid so that there is only one crown per row, column and color region, not being able to coincide with any other crown of the attached segments. Tango: It has been the last game to join LinkedIn, and it is a logic game where you must fill a grid making sure that each row and column contains the same number of soles as moons. The complication is that there can be no more than two soles or adjacent moons, neither vertical nor horizontally. But what do these games paint on LinkedIn? According to Paolo Pasco, LinkedIn games editor the games seek to encourage Benefits of short pauses during the working day. “Various studies underline the importance of work pauses and cognitive benefits of the puzzles. Therefore, with our series of games we seek to offer professionals a space to make a brief pause and revitalize their mind. “ A investigation of the University of Exeter and the King’s College in London discovered the memory benefits that the crosswords, sudokus and other types of puzzles provide such as those proposed by LinkedIn in its recreational offer. Therefore, this may be a good way to foster a Status to take the brain to its “playground” in which abstract concepts and knowledge are connected to Generate new ideas. “It’s curious how something as simple as a game can be the impulse we need to return to energy with energy, desire to learn, connect and talk to others,” said Pasco. The fact of Improve cognitive abilitiessuch as the attention, concentration and mental flexibility, together with the social component that the social network provides, they make the games become a more socialization component between professionals or among classmates of the same office, breaking the ice in interpersonal relationships in The work spaces. According to A survey From Yougov, the puzzles and puzzle games are the most popular among users in the US, ahead of card games, action or adventure. Within these data, the puzzles were preferred, by far, by LinkedIn users, so it is not strange that the social network has chosen to integrate them into its platform. LinkedIn is still a business Beyond the productive component and Induction to labor interactions With the excuse of competitiveness in the games, the introduction of this new section on LinkedIn also Pursues an economic interest. In this sense, LinkedIn has followed the steps from The New York Times, which only a few months before also integrated a section of games in its application, continuing with the Wordle success. Such and As I counted Axiosthe games have allowed the New York Times to stabilize the number of subscribers to their platform, while the figures of the rest of their competition chopped. He Financial Times estimatedthat with the implementation of these games in LinkedIn a “record commitment” of 1.5 million content interactions per minute in June 2024 had been recorded. The LinkedIn Games Rachas system fosters the daily visit and sharing the results, so the return of users and their active participation in the platform increases, even if it is only for a few … Read more

My concentration ability takes a long time. Working in a laptop almost 15 years ago has saved me

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Our care economy is broken. Completely. We are continuously bombarded by stimuli that come by many ways and the consequence is clear: We distracted ourselves with the flight of a fly. It is curious how this is causing a change not only in us, that we look for methods not to distract us, but in elements such as an entertainment industry that has changed its way of capturing our attention. There are two very clear examples of this. Music is one more or less obvious, with increasingly short songs (just a couple of minutes) and, some, with the chorus as the beginning of the theme. In addition, these choruses are also short to fit in the 15 seconds that you can share in an Instagram story. Another example is that of films, with trailers of a couple of minutes that begin with a trailer trailer itself. Here are an example of ‘TOP GUN MAVERICK‘, whose trailer starts with a five -second teaser with images that we will see below: Many more films make this, being a marketing resource that begs us to Let’s pay attention For two minutes. They seem to beg a “Please, pay attention to me, cool things come”. Due to that constant information bombardment, We seek to be productive when we are hyperstimulated And we read books, we learn from successful people, we put into practice supposedly infallible methods, we download applications and, sometimes, we spend more time looking for how to be productive That, really, being. I have to say that I have found a secret to Improve my productivity: Working on a computer that prevents me from opening more than three tabs at the same time. And – at least to me – it works. A hardware barrier If you are reading this it is because you have looked for ways to be more productive and not distract you. I have done it and I have installed everything on my computer, I have configured Ways not to bother the phone And even issues that restrict apps during work hours, but the meat is weak and the finger always tends to go open Bluesky or worse Instagram and Tiktok. One day it occurred to me that, if the software did not limit me, perhaps the hardware would. I went to the closet and took out of the box (I am one of those who keep the boxes of what he buys) My university laptop: a 2011 MacBook Pro. 16 GB of RAM A double -core i5 at a few 2.4 GHz and 13 inches of screen. Years ago I replaced his hard drive with a SSD and I was surprised to light after so many years. What did not work was the charger (nothing that does not solve Amazon and some 20 euros), so I configured it and came across the first problem: I was very outdated. Not only could he not update to a new operating system, but browsers such as Edge, Chrome or your own Safari They were insuffically slow. Nor could I install some applications that I use on a day -to -day basis, such as Notion, because they require a more recent version of the system, so I did with a Firefox Legacy and configured it so that Notion Be the default opening page. You will be wondering why I tell you this, and there I go: when I changed this laptop for a more recent one in 2017, something was already slow and having more than 4-5 tabs in a browser was unfeasible. Despite the 16 GB of RAM, the processor could not with so much without making the fan a turbine, without heating the chassis and without making the system on pull. Precisely, the reason that forced me to make the leap to Infame Macbook Pro with butterfly keyboardIt is the one that made me come back because I wanted, precisely, that. I explain: when I work on a website like Xataka, I do it with a lot of open eyelashes to search for sources. I have Telegram installed, YouTube Music, an image editor and Many times I open, almost by inertia, some social network Or youtube if I don’t feel inspired. With issues such as news or reports, having that overestimulation does not bother me because I know it is something that will take me for a while and then I will happen to something else, but the thing changes when I have an analysis or an opinion article. Does the screen divided there? Neither joke For this type of texts, the concentration is key. You have to turn your thoughts and structure them in a certain way. You cannot afford to get distracted because you lose your thread, and those distractions do not exist with a laptop from almost 15 years ago. If I have more than three tabs open at the same time, the Mac goes to the idle, so I only have notion, Perplexity (precisely to look for something and have many options in a single tab instead of many sources in many tabs) and YouTube Music. Web Telegram It is not an option, for example, and as soon as I have four tabs, the processor is already asking for rest. That with four Firefox tabs That technological barrier, almost physicalnot only does it exist because of how the Mac would go if I open more eyelashes: the screen also plays a paper. 13 inches are not bad and many current laptops have that diagonal, but here the resolution is 1280 x 800 pixels. Translation: scarce, much, so much that putting a game is not an option. Not having a high resolution, putting a split screen is unfeasible, which forces me to have a single screen I am writing, preventing you from having an eye in my text and another in a YouTube video, for example. As I said, it works for me and it is something that I have incorporated into my work routine. … Read more

Chips that recover energy when working

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Michael Frank has been working in a technological discipline that seems like science fiction for more than three decades. One that apparently pursues something impossible. And yet, it may not. The goal? Than using a chip manages to recover energy. Chips have always done the opposite. They consume energy. A lot. More and more, especially now that we are immersed In the era of glottone artificial intelligence. And yet Frank is immersed in the development of the call “reversible computing“As they explain In IEEE SpectrumLast summer Frank left his work as a scientific engineer in Sandia National Laboratories to join a very special startup called Vaire Computing. It is there where he intends to become what he has already estimated in his studies: according to his investigations, reversible computing could Allow energy efficiency 4,000 times higher to that of alternative options. In Vaire Frank and his team are working in a chip prototype that will be manufactured in the first quarter of 2025 and that is very ambitious. Even so, for the first time a chip is expected to recover energy when used in an arithmetic circuit. Then, in 2027, they hope to have a supply processor designed for artificial intelligence inference. The advanced version of said chip, which will theoretically be 4,000 times more efficient than the current ones, It will take 10 or 15 years to arrivetheir creators warn. What is reversible computing In 1961 Rolf Landauer, an IBM engineer, discovered that deleting a bit of information on a computer had an energy cost and produced heat. For him there was a solution: try to compute tasks without erasing information. A traditional xor door is not reversible: you cannot recover entries just knowing the exit. If an additional output is added, a copy of one of the inputs is reversible. Thus, the two outputs can be used to “disassemble” the door Xor and recover the entrances and, with them, the energy used in the calculation. Source: IEEE Spectrum. Landauer made clear that it seemed unchanged, because store all the information You would fill the memory With unnecessary data. More than a decade later Charles H. Bennett, physicist and information theoretical in IBM, discovered a solution. Instead of storing intermediate results in memory, you could reverse the computing process, “disbelieve it” to store only the final inputs and outputs. “Almost 100% of the energy used by a chip ends up being dissipated as heat, so we are basically evil. But in a reversible chip you never dissipate energy. Do not allow energy to become heat, and recycles internally.” The idea was taking shape in academic environments, and in the 90 Frank ended up being one of those who immersed themselves in their promises. The problem is that when developing that concept they saw that although energy was recovered in the circuit, it was lost in the external power supply. Vaire Computing was founded by researcher Hannah Earley and entrepreneur Rodfo Rosini. Earley explained In TechCrunch How “almost 100% of the energy used by a chip ends up being dissipated as heat, so we are basically missing it. But In a reversible chip you never dissipate energy. Do not allow energy to become heat, and recycles internally. “ In Varie they have apparently propose na solution with traditional CMOS transistors. To do this, they use the so -called “resonator”, a system that manages to recover energy by changing a bit from 0 to 1 so as not to turn it into heat and store most of it into the transistor itself. That idea has already been explored in the past, but in Vaire they seem to have managed to integrate that resonator into the chip. They will start with a little ambitious chip and then work on those chips for inference to which they will be theoretically what will be what will be theoretically really demonstrate How far can you get with reversible computing, also well explained in this small essay published in the Newsletter Exponential View. Of course, It is one thing to promise those efficiencies and another very different to achieve them. The proposal is very interesting and of course could raise a revolution that accelerated the development of much more powerful chips and that were not so voracious in terms of energy consumption. It remains to be seen if they will achieve it. Hopefully yes. Image | Wu Yi In Xataka | The 2 Nm chips race will start in 2025. And it will be the most fierce of all

Samsung and Google working on their own version of smart glasses

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In a strategic alliance, Samsung and Google have announced their collaboration to develop augmented reality (AR) glasseswith the aim of directly competing with Meta and Apple devices in the emerging extended reality (XR) market. This collaboration seeks to accelerate the development of innovative devices that integrate advanced technologies from both companies. Android XR: the new platform for immersive experiences Google has introduced Android XR, an operating system designed specifically for extended reality devices. Developed in collaboration with Samsung, Android XR combines years of investment in artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to deliver more natural and intuitive experiences. This operating system is intended to power a new generation of glasses and visors that integrate these technologies. Samsung is developing the first device that will run Android XRknown internally as Project Moohan. This mixed reality headset is expected to offer high-end features at a significantly lower price than the Apple Vision Pro, which retails for $3,500. This strategy seeks to make XR technology more accessible to a broader audience. Meta and Apple: competitors in the smart glasses market Meta has been at the forefront of the development of smart glassescollaborating with Ray-Ban to launch devices that combine style and functionality. Its smart glasses offer features such as built-in cameras and audio capabilities, allowing users to capture photos and videos, as well as interact with voice assistants. On the other hand, Apple has introduced the Apple Vision Pro, its first spatial computing device that merges digital content with the user’s physical space. This device allows you to work, view content and connect in innovative ways, setting a new standard in the augmented and virtual reality industry. The collaboration between Samsung and Google represents a significant step in the evolution of smart glasses and extended reality devices. By combining their resources and expertise, both companies are well positioned to deliver products that not only compete with those of Meta and Apple, but also drive widespread adoption of this emerging technology. With the launch of Android XR and devices like Project Moohan, the smart glasses market is poised for a significant transformationoffering consumers a broader range of options and immersive experiences that seamlessly integrate the digital and physical worlds. As competition intensifies, we are likely to see rapid advances in technology, design and functionality, which will benefit consumers and accelerate the integration of augmented and virtual reality into everyday life. The alliance between Samsung and Google marks the beginning of a new era in smart glasses technologypromising more advanced devices, accessible and aligned with the needs and expectations of modern users. With the entry of these technology giants into the smart glasses market, the future of augmented and virtual reality looks more promising than ever, offering exciting opportunities for innovations that will change the way we interact with the world around us. Keep reading:• These are the virtual reality glasses that can compete with Apple’s Vision Pro• PS5 VR2: release date, official price and features of the virtual reality glasses• Meta Quest Pro VR: what Meta’s $1,500 virtual reality glasses are like

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