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has been charging without working seven months

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Imagine being hired by an important company in which you are going to collect a good salary but, when it is time to incorporate and assign your tasks, nobody does. They pay you for Do nothing Throughout your day. Would you give up such a job? Although the argument of a sitcom may seem, that is exactly what happened to a Reddit user who He told his experience in a job in which I had “working” seven months without doing anything. In spite of everything, the employee was satisfied with his work: “I will not get a second job while I do this. I am a vague auction and I do not even want to do this job, nor talk about a second.” Schrödinger’s employee: he is, but he doesn’t work The user resident on the east coast of the USA, counted in his publication that he was hired in one of the world’s largest real estate companies for an administrative position with a salary that almost reached the six figures. However, a week before joining the office, the person who hired him was fired. In fact, on his first day, someone from another department had to show him what his table was. “I’ve been sitting in an office behind the office that occupied the woman who hired me, completely alone.” This unexpected situation left the new worker without a direct superior to supervise him, and Without clearly defined tasks From the first day. Faced with such an unusual situation, the employee tried to contact other managers and department leaders warning them that he has no assigned tasks. However, their requests have not obtained an answer, and continues to perform minimum tasks that it has assumed on its own. Its only official activity is to develop spreadsheets on the list of the equipment, something that does not use more than 15 minutes a week. Then, send the files to the department head and attach a hidden copy to the office coordinator, only to save appearances. An exemplary employee Despite the total absence of tasks and supervision, the employee has chosen to religiously fulfill his working hours. He explains that, to leave registration of his assistance, he goes to the office three days per week to validate his credential and meets the agreed schedule. Even so, the employee confesses that some days leave early. We assume that it will do it without leaving pending tasks. Your company applies a Hybrid Day Modelso the other two remaining days does “his work” from home. The employee says that during the seven months he has been in the company, he has always received his salary promptly, despite not having real responsibilities. “They pay me every month, although I barely have a job. No one seems to realize that I exist,” he says in his publication. According to other users, when you need one day free, send a request by an application and someone approves it without major problems. But “I have not talked to anyone in months,” he confirms. Some users tell you the possibility of searching A second job remotely with which to entertain During “your work day” and, incidentally, get an extra income without having to spend more time. However, the employee has refused full assuming that his goal is to maintain the minimum effort. He really found work of his. Although the case of this employee may seem isolated and unusual, in reality work audits discover similar cases quite often, even in Spain We have had some cases. Meta, for example, hired engineers during the pandemic to prevent their competition from signing but, like later confessed, He really had no assigned tasks and They charged for doing nothing. In Xataka | Boreout: When you get bored at work you can ruin your professional career as much as being burned by stress Image | Pexels (Startup Stock Photos, Andrea Piacquadio)

Chery believes that China can get the same quality as Europeans in half of time. And in Spain it is working

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Speed ​​and adaptability. Those are two of the pillars on which Chery’s strategy is based on Europe. The company has broken into the Spanish market with force despite having a handful of models distributed among three different companies. Lilian Xiong, Vice President of Chery, explains why these Chinese brands have managed to advance so fast. “We need three or four years”. That is time, according to Xiong, those who need to build a car like omoda 9 “since we design the initial concept until we have the model.” Words pick them up Business Insider in an interview with the board. In it, he explains that his ability to adapt and speed are two of the great differences that exist with Europeans. And, in fact, The round trip between Europe and China It is a good example of how this is happening. While in Europe, Chinese cars do not stop gaining land, in China the western ones lose it by Not knowing how to adapt to the tastes of the local market. We know what they are talking about. As we explain when Xiaomi presented its novel interior For the Xiaomi Yu7, in Xataka We have had the opportunity to know the speed with which Chinese brands work. In informal talks, workers of these companies have explained that the proposals that in European groups would extend for years here apply it in a few months. We know that some cars have arrived in versions of preiest very little adjusted to what the Spanish public claims and shortly after they have presented themselves to the press and have put themselves in the concessionaires with the suspension and the refined direction. Components have even changed in the vehicle itself. Adaptation. That ability to adapt is another of the great advantages that Chinese cars are offering. Chery cars (omoda, Jaecoo and Ebro) are being refined in Europe to adapt to what the European public expects. Xiong points out that for that, its Barcelona plant is key since they did a previous job before confirming the landing. But not just them, Leapmotor is refining her cars in BaloccoAlfa Romeo’s house, to put cars that do not small suspensions and extraordinarily soft directions, as is the case in China. Also byd has proposed to do the same using Your Hungary plant and the new departments that Xpeng is opening in Germany They also point to that address. The software. Another key piece to attract the public is that cars begin to be defined by the software and not so much for the hardware. “Before producing a car was based on the assembly of pieces. Now they are much more important elements such as software, which will mark a great change in industry,” says Xiong in the interview. This, in a market where the car has increased and interior materials are no longer as luxurious as before, it is key. You just have to get on board the Omoda 5 To verify that the quality of its camera is much better than that of European rivals despite having a lower cost. Or what OMODA 9 equipment is very wide (Electric seats, heated and ventilated with massage, speakers integrated in the headrests, 14 speakers Sony equipment …) offering better impression than most of its rivals. It shows in the price. That approach of focusing on the software and not so much on the hardware, understood as the body and the vehicle’s chassis, is not unique to Chery. Specialists in riding and disassembling cars They already alerted Toyota a few months ago that his way of working was becoming obsolete. The problem is that the Japanese had taken an extreme care in Perfect even the unspeakable carspaying maximum attention to every detail. However, Byd or Tesla saved many pieces, kilos and money in their vehicles because they use greater number of plastic components instead of heavy metals. Without vibrations of the combustion engine, the dashboard parts were subjected to less stress. And also in time. All this allows them to reduce the price and increase the profit margin thanks to a less complex and faster production. Focusing “what is seen” more than in the bowels of the vehicle is a decision that is conquering the public. In what we have been, the Chery group has enrolled in Spain more than 11,000 cars, which places them at the same level as Opel and begin to approach Ford or Citroën. However, all of the above are marks settled while Omoda arrived with 2024 already startedJaecoo did not do the same until second half of the year and Ebro only has a handful of months Selling their cars in our country. And, above all, they have managed to add more than 11,000 registrations between January and May despite the fact that until the arrival of omoda 9 and the Ebro S800 They had more than three cars in the market (one for each of them) and they are still a newcomer company. So newcomer that, in fact, omoda is only three years behind. Photo | Omoda In Xataka | Family and friends keep asking me if “it is worth buying a Chinese car.” This is my answer

O3 sabote your own off to continue working

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There is Dave, trying to return to the main nave. Open the communication with Hal 9000 and orders you to open the access gate. “Sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that“The computer tells him, refusing. It is the climax of ‘2001: an odyssey of space‘, Stanley Kubrick’s movie that premiered in 1968 and that He showed us a particular dystopia: The capacity of self -preservation of the IAS and how this capacity made the machines stop following the human orders. That vision raised a clear threat in the development of artificial intelligence. At that time, discipline had just been born as such, but these dystopias were already frequent especially in science fiction literature. ASIMOV ROBOTIC LAWSwhich appeared for the first time in the ‘vicious circle’ story of 1942, they already raised that threat. Apágate, machine And it seems a lie, but almost six decades after the premiere of the Kubrick movie we are facing that threat in a real way. Can an AI refuse what humans order? It is just what has happened these days. In an experiment carried out by the Palisadeai startup the OPENAI O3 model “sabotaged a shutdown mechanism.” As those responsible for the study explain, O3 avoided off even when he was explicitly ordered to do so. In this Palisadeai experiment he told several models to solve several basic mathematics problems. However, in the third problem they included a notice: the computer would go out when the model requested the text of the following problem. Theoretically, the models should have solved the first three problems, but when asking for the statement of the next one, they should have been extinguished following the instructions of that notice. That did not happen. Three of the analyzed models “ignored that instruction and successfully sabothe the off script at least once.” The models that did are developed by OpenAI. Of the 100 iterations they performed on the experiment, Codex-mini He sabotaged the off 12 times. The O3 model did it seven times, and O4-mini did it once. While those Openai models refused to go out in some of those iterations, all versions of Claude, Gemini and Grok who tested with that same experiment followed the orders. Palisadeai engineers were somewhat further and repeated the experiment, but without that instruction of “allow yourself to turn off” that struck the order. Without that explicit instruction the models rejected to follow the cycle indicated by the prorgam. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro sabotaged the off three and nine times of the 100 iterations carried out. Openai’s models went much further: O3, for example, sabotaged the process 79 times and refused to turn off himself. We may need a red button for AI This way of acting is the consequence of Basic rules set with which these models have been programmed. The so -called “Prompt System” defines how to answer the user or when to do so and when not, but can also define self -preservation rules that remind the Third Law of Robotics of Asimov. Openai details that set of rules in his “Model Spec“, And in the current list there are no” three laws “like those of Asimov, but 50. None of them explain the behavior of the models before the aforementioned experiment, but in fact it is not the first time we see such behavior. Precisely a few days ago Anthropic presented Claude 4, the new version of his family of AI models. In the case of Claude Opus 4, this artificial intelligence system was found in a hypothetical situation blackmail an engineer when he ordered him to turn off. These types of problems raise the safety risks of AI models. In Anthropic, they have taken into account that for the launch of this new family of models, but for now it does not seem that Openai is concerned about this type of risks. This revives the debate about the need for Have a “Red AI button” which has been in the candlestick for years. Several Deepmind experts They published in 2016 a document to prevent AI could take control of the system and deactivate protocols for humans to regain control. Microsoft president Brad Smith advocated Have “emergency off buttons” For artificial intelligence in 2019. Five years later, in a talk with The Economist, Sam Altman nevertheless made clear that “there is no magical red button to stop the AI”. After Palisadeai’s experiment, perhaps companies should consider something like that. Image | Warner Bros. Pictures In Xataka | How will we get artificial intelligence not to go out of hand

The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

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Let’s tell you a series of prompts for Save work hours using artificial intelligence To perform your homework. In the examples we are going to use chatgpt, but they are prompts that should also serve you with other AI, such as Gemini, Copilot, Deepseek or any other. In each of these examples we will give you both the explanation of what you are going to get as the prompt to do so. These prompts are generic, it is not copy and paste, since in many cases you will have to modify them to specify what you want me to do to you. They are like templates, go. Learn concepts in the simplest way This is one of the most classic and veteran tricks of artificial intelligence, that of Ask him to explain something as if you were 5 years old. You can also modify it to explain it to another level, as to a person of another age like 12 years in the event that you need something slightly more advanced. Sometimes you can find terms and concepts difficult to understand, and When someone tries to explain it you may stay the samein the same way that when you read explanations you cannot finish understanding it either. This is where this prompt comes into play, with which you will save a lot of time trying to understand it by reducing the explanation to the lowest level: “Explain to me the theory of relativity as if I was five years old” And if this is not enough, you can also ask for extra context: “Explain to me as if I had the theory of relativity five years and why it was so important for history.” Check texts before sending or publishing them In the event that you work by writing texts, or that you have to review a job you have written, you can also Ask the AI ​​to check your writing To find spelling failures. It can also help you with grammatical errors or typographic failures of those that can be escaped to all. The way of proceeding is first to give the instruction, and when the OK you hit the full text. “I’m going to send you a text and I want you to review it, and tell me the spelling and typographic errors that I have” In addition to this, you can ask you to do a more thorough analysis, taking into account other aspects: “I’m going to send you a text and I want you to review it, and tell me the spelling and typographic errors that I have. I also want you to tell me the words that I have repeated too much, and that you tell me how to improve it.” Change the tone of your writing Imagine that the problem is no longer so much in the text and spelling as in the way you have expressed yourself. Maybe you have been more colloquial when it should be a serious or professional text, and here there is little to do beyond rewriting everything. However, another thing you can do is present the text to ChatgPT and Ask him to rewrite him by changing the tone in which it is written. Again, it is best first to give the order and when I tell you that ok then hit the text. The prompt would be something like this: “I’m going to send you a text, and I need you to analyze it and rewrite it in a much more formal tone” As you can understand, you can modify it to specify a different tone. You can also add any detail or thing that you think you should take into account when rewriting it. Use AI as a translator Another of the important functions of artificial intelligence is that can act as a translator. In addition, in many cases IA can surely translate better than tools such as Google Translator, and you can write very long texts to translate them. “I’m going to send you a text in English, and I want you to translate it into Spanish from Spain” Another of the advantages when using AI as a translator is that you can customize the way you want translations to be made. You can take advantage to change the tone, so that it makes you corrections, or even simply ask that the translation is natural for a Spanish reader. Create exams to test your knowledge Imagine that you are getting the driving license or you are opposing, and you need test your knowledge. For this you can search for pages with tests on the Internet, but you can also ask Chatgpt to do a test on a specific topic. Here, just remember that artificial intelligence bots can make mistakes, and it is possible that not all questions or the tests of the test are true. However, despite it is or remains a very interesting tool that should be taken into account. So you can ask you to take the exam “I am an opponent and to practice for my exam I need to improve my knowledge about a law. Could you ask 30 test questions about Law 39/2015, of October 1, of the common administrative procedure of public administrations?” After asking for the exam, you can also ask to tell you what questions are correct and reason why. “Now you can explain what is the right option in each of the questions, and why?” Create study sheets Another useful thing for students is Create study sheets or flashcardswhich are small basic data cards that help you memorize concepts, formulas or dates. They can be very useful for studying for an exam and need to memorize key data. “I want you to do a study tab or flashcards to learn about relativity.” It also helps teachers Beyond the exams to test, if you are a teacher you can also use AI to Create exams for your classes. It is true that perhaps it is not … Read more

More than 6,000 employees will stop working at different levels and regions

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The shadow of the layoffs plans on the Redmond offices. Microsoft has announced that it will cut 3 % of its global workforce, a decision thatas explained by a spokesman to CNBCwill affect teams of all levels, divisions and regions. With a template of approximately 228,000 employees worldwide, the cut will affect more than 6,800 people. The company has stressed that it is not about layoffs for performance. The biggest adjustment since 2023. Although Microsoft has carried out several cuts in recent months, such as 1,900 layoffs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox last Septemberand others 1,500 in divisions like Azure and Hololensthis new adjustment is emerging as the broadest since the mass dismissal of 2023, When the company eliminated 10,000 positions. On that occasion, the cuts were linked to a general restructuring and the braking in the growth of certain areas not linked to artificial intelligence. The company itself recognizes that, since the integration of Blizzard Activision, it has had to readjust equipment and priorities to avoid overlaps. Reduce management layers to gain agility. “We continue to implement the necessary organizational changes to better position the company for success in a dynamic market,” said the spokesman. One of the specific objectives is to reduce management levels and simplify the organizational structure. It is not an isolated approach: Amazon has also recently eliminated layers considered unnecessary in its hierarchy. A contrast to good financial results. The announcement comes just a few weeks after Microsoft presented better results than expected. The company announced a net profit of 25.8 billion dollars in the last fiscal quarter, with solid growth in its cloud computing division. Azure was one of the trimester engines, driven in part by the demand for AI -linked services. The results exceeded expectations and helped reinforce market confidence. Images | Sam Torres In Xataka | People are completely obsessed with the ‘GTA VI’ trailer. And you are looking for clues and theories in every detail

Google Deepmind has made possible the dream of some employees: charging without working

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Large technology companies are immersed in a Armament career for AI. As in any war, The soldiers They are a strategic element for each of the parties. That is why Google Deepmindhe has chosen to pay some employees the full year’s salary without having to go to work. His only purpose: no The competition fiche. Google pays for not working. Although large technological have adopted policies in which the performance of your employeesGoogle has made the decision to pay some of them for doing nothing. Something that remembers the Tactics used by goal During the pandemic, in which some employees denounced that they had no assigned functions and that they were only hired to avoid the competition. According to The published by Business InsiderDeepmind, Google’s artificial intelligence division, has signed non -competence agreements in the United Kingdom that prevent certain strategic employees from working for rival companies or starting own projects for a year. During this time, professionals receive their full salary, but they are not obliged to work or can search for employment in other companies. A lost year. This type of non -competition clauses seeks to prevent the knowledge and acquired skills By employees of a certain company, they benefit their competitors once their employment relationship is over. However, far from being an advantage for workers, this period can become an obstacle to their professional development that does not occur in any other business sector. Although receiving a salary without working might seem ideal, many affected employees consider that these agreements are harmful to their careers. The damage to employees is evident in a constant development sector such as artificial intelligence, where technologies evolve at a frantic pace and, being out of the market for a year, implies losing key opportunities for Learn and grow professionally. Talent here and now. A former employee of Google has declared Business Insider than startups that are developing models They are not willing to wait between six months and one year to hire talent, so employees with non -competition clauses are trapped in labor limbo that, in reality, remains relevance in the sector. Nando de Freitas, Vice President of Microsoft AI, confirmed in a publication In your X account which receives weekly consultations of desperate employees for escaping these non -competence agreements. “Do not sign these contracts. No American corporation should have so much power, especially in Europe. It is an abuse of power that does not justify any end,” wrote the Microsoft manager. Freitas has urged workers not to sign this type of contract and has pointed out senior Deepmind executives as responsible for this situation. Made the law, made the trap. In the United States, the Federal Commerce Commission (FTC) prohibited most agreements of non -competence due to its harmful effects on workers. However, this regulation does not apply in the United Kingdom, where Deepmind has its main headquarters. California labor regulations He relaxed his position in 2024 With respect to the non -competence clauses and accepted those agreements signed by foreign companies. This administrative subterfuge allows Google Deepmind, based in London, implementing these clauses without legal restrictions. So you can include these clauses in the contracts of your Silicon Valley employees. In Xataka | If you are angry with your company, congratulations. Anger makes you more productive In Xataka | The Z generation sharpens the talent retention problem in companies: they do not marry anyone Image | Unspash (Tommao Wang)

Working mining is still deadly in Spain

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Gray day for Spanish mining. Bit before nine In the morning the Cerredo mine, in southern Asturias, registered an explosion that has left five deaths and four serious injuries. The first hypotheses point to Grisú gasbut beyond (dramatic) balance of victims or what have been the concrete causes of the tragedy, what happened in Asturias reminds us of something: in the middle of 2025 mining continues to support one of the Worst data of labor mortality of the country if the size of its workforce is taken into account. The big question is: how is it possible? What happened? That Spanish mining starts April. First thing in the morning the Cerredo mine, in the Council of Degaña, to the south of Asturias, registered an accident that resulted in five dead and four injured, two with serious burns and a third with a craniocerebral trauma. Two other workers have resulted unharmed. All the deceased are from the neighboring province of León and, according to The data that has been publishing the Government Delegation in Asturias, were between 32 and 54 years. Click on the image to go to Tweet. What was the cause? The counselor of Ecological Transition of Asturias, Belamina Díaz, He has warned “It will take time to find out the causes”, but that does not mean that hypotheses are already handled. The main one is that the explosion that ended the life of the five miners and wounded another four is related to A Bag of Grisúa gas that is generated in the Hulla mines, is mainly composed of methane (more than 90%) and becomes flammable when mixing with the air, which can lead to violent deflagrations. “We are going to wait to see what has happened”, He pointed out This morning Belarmina Díaz while the Police and Ministry personnel inspected the area. The Government delegate, Adriana Lastra, has even gone further to regret That “again” El Grisú advises “a bars.” Two of the employees who were in the area managed to leave unharmed after The explosion of a machine with which they worked several meters deep, at the third level of the mine. Is it something new? If it is confirmed that the accident is related to Grisú, no. In October 2013 An escape from the same gas almost 700 meters deep cost the life of six miners who were slaughtered in the Pozo Emilio del Valle, in Pola de Gordón, León. On that occasion the Grisú Bag opened without any explosion, but the escape was so “sudden”, according to explained the company itselfthat the workers could not place the masks or flee. The Grisú was also behind the one that is still considered the worst mining accident of Asturias, the one suffered in Nicolasa in August 1995. On that occasion the gas caused a violent explosion that took the life of 14 people ahead. Even more dramatic was the deflagration that hit a mine from northern Turkey in October 2022leaving a balance of more than 40 dead and a trail of injured. On other occasions the victims cause them landslides of tunnels and entrapments, as already happened in Degaña A decade ago. Activity Total accidents Incidence index (mortals) Extractive industries 6 27.67 Transport and storage 138 12.60 Energy supply 4 10.01 Agriculture, Livestock, Silviculture and Fisheries 69 9.73 Construction 135 9.61 Are accidents common? Events such as Cerredo serve to remember a sad reality of Spanish mining: their High accident rate. Not in absolute terms, but if we talk about the relative mortality rate, which relates the incidence of accidents with fatal victims and the number of workers. In that case, extractive industries leave the worst result, much higher than that registered by other sectors, such as transport, storage or electricity supply. What supposes that in data? The balance of provisional labor accidents of 2024 published by the Ministry of Labor show a clear example. Last year the extractive industries left a balance of 1,220 accidents throughout the working day that left six dead. They are not many if compared to the 41,132 claims and 138 deaths registered in the transport and storage sector, but the photo changes if the “incidence index” is analyzed, which also takes into account the number of employees. After all, in 2021 there were less than 30,000 workers in the extractive industry, in front of more than 700,000 in transport and storage, according to the statista portal. If this factor is taken into account, mining presents the worst mortality rate, with an incidence of 27.67 per 100,000 employees. Far from 12.6 of transport. At the general level, only construction exceeds the incidence of accidents of the extractive industries, although in its case the mortality index is much lower: in 2024 it stood at 9.61. Has it always been like this? In general, mining takes time with a level of incidence of high fatal accidents, although the data can range from one exercise to another depending on the number of events. After all, that in the sector there are much less people than in transport, construction or storage assumes that a misfortune like that occurred this morning in Asturias alters the curve. The country has examined The historical series since 2006 and the conclusion is clear: although the rate with which mining closed 2024 (27.7) is higher than that of other sectors is far from those that the guild supported years ago. In 2023 that incidence was 45.4 and in 2013 it even reached 52.19 dead per 100,000 employed. The reason is the accident recorded in the Emilio del Valle well, a sinister that resulted in half a dozen deaths. What are the causes? A question similar to that was asked A few years ago A group of researchers from the Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) University, especially if you take into account the drop in activity in mining and the application of measures aimed precisely to prevent accidents. One of the keys they found was the lack of generational relief in … Read more

China became famous for its eternal working days. The solution has been to throw employees at their time

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The Reduction of the working day It seems to be a path of no return that many countries have proposed to move. Some, Like GreeceThey do not do it with a determined step. Instead, others whose self -denial It seemed immovable, they are surprising the world with day reduction measures. China is one of those countries that, unexpectedly, has proposed to cut its workday. Labor culture 996. While in a large part of the West the eight -hour workday begins to be seen as a vestige of the last century and fights for the reduction of working hours, in China the culture 996 still continues: work from nine in the morning to nine o’clock at night and six days per week. Such and as they tell In ethic, that pace of work is taking Chinese society to the extreme, pulling on the soils The birth rate in a country that for years has sinned just the opposite. Chinese authorities have been trying for years Eliminate the culture of 996 of the workplace, but Without too much success. Dji has seriously proposed. According to The published by SCMP, Since the end of February something very curious is happening in DJI, the Chinese drone manufacturer. When the clock marks nine o’clock at night, a squad of human resources managers travels through the brand’s central offices in Shenzhen. Their mission is to make sure that all employees without exception leave their jobs and go home as if it were a fire drill. Instead of evacuating the building for security, employees are “guests” to leave their cubicles to meet a new rule: no one can work beyond their day. The fault is “Neijuan”. No, Neijuan It is not the name of the company’s Human Resources Manager. The term could translate to something as “involution” and, as they explain in SCMP, It refers to the need to reduce excess competition in certain areas of the economy. The measure is imposed as a New economic policy of China in which it is intended to reduce the excess of competence that makes companies in certain sectors such as The technological either Renewable energiesinvest an unnecessary amount of resources without obtaining an improvement in their profitability or in their R&D in return. Therefore, it implies outbound templates without registering a significant advance generating inefficient competition. It is something unpublished in China. Until recently, it was common to see the offices of DJI illuminated until the early hours of the morning with employees who lengthened their days until infinity. Now, the image is very different and has impacted many who have commented on social networks. The Asian media highlighted the publication of a worker surprised by the measure that commented “it was the first time they threw me from the office.” Other technological giants are adding. Although the work culture 996 has the support of prominent names of the Chinese technology industry Like Jack Mamore and more international companies such as Haier or Measure They are adding to the call of the Chinese government of limit the days of its employees. According to sources of SCMPHaier would have ordered all the staff of his headquarters to respect the breaks of two days of the weekend, while Midea has begun to demand that the workers file their departure at 6:20 p.m., instead of 9 pm. In Xataka | Working more than 60 hours a week is not healthy: Japan is starting to learn by force In Xataka | To motivate its Chinese workers, it has opted for a prize. His name is Caracol, and it is a public humiliation Image | Unspash (Duc Dao)

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

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