PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Verano 2023

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UK Offshore Wind at 'Tipping Point' as Funding Crisis Threatens Industry
Posted by msmash on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:16PM from the closer-look dept.

Britain faces being left with no hope of meeting its crucial climate crisis goals and losing its status as a world leader in offshore wind energy without an urgent overhaul of government support, ministers are being warned. From a report:

The sudden halting of one of the country's biggest offshore windfarm projects last month could signal a "tipping point" in the construction of new sites unless ministers intervene, a number of senior energy industry figures told the Observer.

They warn that a swathe of new projects, which Britain is relying on to meet key climate targets, could also become economically unviable under the existing regime. While the industry has been hit by huge price inflationary pressures, it warns that the government has failed to adjust the scheme that guarantees the price it is paid for energy. "If the government doesn't do something, there's a very real risk that, come September, just before party conferences, the story won't just be about getting rid of the 'green crap' -- it'll be about failing to deliver on the projects they've already said that they wanted," said one industry insider.

Saludos.

[Benzino Napaloni]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/forcing-workers-back-office-may-121851270.html

Forcing workers back to the office may be backfiring: Flexible workplaces are hiring talent twice as fast as those requiring full-time attendance

Two years into the return-to-office battle, and it’s becoming apparent that its staunchest supporters are facing headwinds.

Employers following in the footsteps of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan by mandating a full-time office return may be inadvertently making themselves unattractive to job seekers, new research shows.

According to an analysis of more than 4,500 companies by Scoop, a software firm that tracks workplace policies, and People Data Labs, a data technology company, companies with remote or hybrid policies appear to be hiring people at about twice the rate of those requiring full-time attendance.

The research, or The Flex Index July 2023 Job Growth Report, maintains that some form of flexible work is the only way forward for workplaces that want to keep a competitive edge in the current tight labor market.

WFH wins in the eyes of workers—and therefore employers

Despite widespread walkouts over the increased pressure to return to the old ways of working, many employers have pressed on with their back-to-the-office plans, with around 1 million workers in the U.S. alone expected to return to their cubicles from September.

But as it turns out, listening to workers' complaints about being forced to return to their desk pays—because they’re showing exactly what job seekers are thinking.

Over the past three months, Scoop Technologies’ analysis found that “fully flexible” companies—ones where all employees work remotely or have complete autonomy over whether they go into the office—grew headcount by 1.9% on average. Meanwhile, those with “structured hybrid” work policies grew by 1.5%. In comparison, employers that were fully in-office grew their headcount by just 0.8%.

And, the research suggests, employers shouldn't dismiss the data as merely short-term backlash to the sudden wave of return-to-office policies: The researchers’ analysis goes as far back as this time last year, during the Great Resignation, when RTO mandates were few and far between, and found a similar gap.

Over the past 12 months, fully flexible companies grew headcount by 5.6%, which dropped slightly to 4.1% for hybrid companies. Meanwhile, full-time in-office companies grew by 2.6%—less than half the rate of flexible firms.

The combination of pricey commutes, sad desk lunches, and paying for childcare means that in-office workers are earning almost 10% less than their remote counterparts. So it’s perhaps not surprising that employers that allow their staff to do their jobs from home—instead of spending time and money to do the very same thing on company watch five days a week—are faring better with job seekers.

Workers don’t want to have their choice revoked

What’s more, the research highlights that workers don’t want to be forced to go into the office: The more in-office days an employer mandated, the more it struggled to hire staff. Meanwhile, hybrid workplaces that have set in-office days, rather than a looser minimum day-per-week requirement, experienced a slighter slower headcount growth rate.

Separate research has echoed that people are more open to returning to the office when it is out of choice, rather than forced: Unispace found that around a third of workers felt happy, motivated, and excited about heading into the office, but those feelings decreased for those mandated to go in.



Plus, it appears that three days per week in office is where job candidates draw the line. The Flex Index research shows that employers mandating a four-day week in the office experienced a significant drop in headcount growth, while those expecting staff to head in between one and three days a week experienced similar levels of growth.

“Headcount growth is not a perfect proxy for economic growth, but it is likely that the companies that are adding headcount are also the ones that are growing sales, the report says. “Put simply, the growth in the economy—at least for corporate employees—appears to be with the companies that are offering flexibility.”

It’s why the researchers said that they ultimately expect to see a drop in the number of companies pressing on with full-time office plans and instead favoring hybrid models “that better reflect the needs of the workforce.”

El tema de hacer volver a la oficina tiene lecturas ocultas. Los despidos en las tecnológicas están a la orden del día por los recortes de inversiones, pero quedan mal igualmente. Forzar volver a la oficina es despedir sin despedir. Forzando de forma (nada) sibilina a irse. Una empresa de reparto en Barcelona muy conocida, no diré cuál es (pero empieza por GL y acaba en OVO ) acaba de imponer lunes, miércoles, y jueves en la oficina. Para todo quisque. Ya contaban con algunas bajas. El tiempo dirá quién gana la apuesta.

No deja de ser como con los caseros pero a lo bestia: el que tuvo el poder no renuncia a él (ni a bajarse la cremallera y jugar a ver quién mea más lejos). Aunque nos hayamos autoproclamado "homo sapiens", la mayoría de nuestras decisiones siguen viniendo del cerebro reptiliano...

[Derby]

Aunque nos hayamos autoproclamado "homo sapiens", la mayoría de nuestras decisiones siguen viniendo del cerebro reptiliano...

De forma particular en los últimos tiempos. Vivimos en una dictadura de las emociones y sometidos a la Ley del Deseo (ajena). Para los que somos más bien estoicos es una pesadez. 

[Urederra]

Los navarros parece que casi siempre se las arreglan para estar en el lado correcto de la Historia en los momentos más determinantes.

Una réplica de este Gobierno "autonómico-foral-frankemstein "parece ser que será el que se forme en España. Parece que hoy ya nos muestran el camino de lo que va a acontecer políticamente en el futuro cercano.

Los socialistas pactan en Navarra un gobierno de coalición con Geroa Bai y la coalición que incluye a Podemos

https://elpais.com/espana/2023-08-07/los-socialistas-pactan-en-navarra-un-gobierno-de-coalicion-con-geroa-bai-y-los-herederos-de-podemos.html

[pollo]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-07/france-is-europe-s-top-power-exporter-as-germany-turns-importer#xj4y7vzkg

France Is Europe’s Top Power Exporter as Germany Turns Importer

France has overtaken Sweden to become Europe’s top net power exporter, while Germany has moved from exporter to importer during the first half of this year.

France’s total net exports amounted to 17.6 terawatt-hours, with most of the power flowing to Great Britain and Italy, according to a report from EnAppSys Ltd. that laid out imports and exports.

French nuclear output is a cornerstone for Europe’s electricity market, even though it’s hovering around 50% of capacity. Its nuclear stations continue to be crucial to the market despite outages and high output from renewable sources such as solar, which has been highly productive as heatwaves have ripped through many parts of southern Europe this summer.

The increased exports from the nation were due to “an increased availability of the country’s nuclear assets,” EnAppSys director Jean-Paul Harreman said in an emailed statement. “Although availability is still 10-15% lower than normal, the increase in capacity of between 5 and 10 GW versus last year helped to flip the French energy balance to export again.”

While Sweden slipped to second place, Spain overtook Germany to become Europe’s third-highest net exporter with total net outflows of 8.8 terawatt-hours, the report found. Spain, seared by extreme heat recently, has profited from increasing renewable generation as huge solar capacity has driven higher exports. Sweden’s exports stood at 14.6 terawatt-hours.

Germany’s closure of its nuclear power plants was the reason its “energy balance flipped to imports,” the report found.

Manda cojones que hayan tenido que pasar décadas para darse cuenta de una realidad física que tenía (y tiene) la península ibérica y que me he cansado de decir por activa y por pasiva.

Si esto se hubiese hecho antes y se hubiese creado de verdad una industria propia con capacidad para aprovechar este potencial a tiempo y no depender de tecnología y capacidad de terceros...

Pero aquí sólo hay ladrillo, y esto, que realmente es riqueza neta para el país (entre otras cosas por evitar que se empleen divisas en importar energía) ha tenido que ser traído en gran parte desde fuera y con un rechazo por parte de ciertos sectores que sólo se explica por la ignorancia o el interés.

[pollo]

The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat
Posted by msmash on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:51PM from the growing-concern dept.

Factories across Asia are struggling to attract young workers, which is bad news for Western consumers accustomed to inexpensive goods. From a report:

The workplace features floor-to-ceiling windows and a cafe serving matcha tea, as well as free yoga and dance classes. Every month, workers gather at team-building sessions to drink beer, drive go-karts and go bowling. This isn't Google. It's a garment factory in Vietnam. Asia, the world's factory floor and the source of much of the stuff Americans buy, is running into a big problem: Its young people, by and large, don't want to work in factories.

That's why the garment factory is trying to make its manufacturing floor more enticing, and why alarm bells are ringing at Western companies that rely on the region's inexpensive labor to churn out affordable consumer goods. The twilight of ultracheap Asian factory labor is emerging as the latest test of the globalized manufacturing model, which over the past three decades has delivered a vast array of inexpensively produced goods to consumers around the world. Americans accustomed to bargain-rate fashion and flat-screen TVs might soon be reckoning with higher prices. "There's nowhere left on the planet that's going to be able to give you what you want," said Paul Norriss, the British co-founder of the Vietnam garment factory, UnAvailable, based in Ho Chi Minh City. "People are going to have to change their consumer habits, and so are brands."

Saludos.

And nothing of value will be lost.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2023-08-07/mas-de-87-millones-de-personas-sufren-ya-restricciones-de-agua-por-la-sequia-en-espana.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://elpais.com/economia/2023-08-07/el-ocaso-de-las-empresas-de-trabajo-temporal-tras-la-reforma-laboral-estoy-cansada-de-las-ett.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://elpais.com/economia/2023-08-07/letras-del-tesoro-al-4-la-mejor-venganza-contra-la-banca-y-su-tacana-remuneracion-del-ahorro.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/opinion/noticias/12399614/08/23/compromisos-con-la-ue-en-el-aire.html

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12399438/08/23/el-nuevo-gobierno-debera-presentar-seis-nuevas-reformas-a-bruselas.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/actualidad/noticias/12399257/08/23/el-pnv-mantiene-su-no-la-investidura-de-feijoo-y-el-pp-pone-el-foco-en-coalicion-canaria-.html

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12399256/08/23/podemos-anuncia-un-ere-para-despedir-a-la-mitad-de-sus-trabajadores-en-toda-espana.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12399451/08/23/el-70-de-las-empresas-no-ve-viable-aplicar-la-jornada-laboral-de-cuatro-dias.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12399613/08/23/madrid-aporta-tres-veces-mas-que-cataluna-al-fondo-comun-autonomico.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12399415/08/23/la-produccion-industrial-en-alemania-se-contrajo-un-15-en-junio.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/mercados-cotizaciones/noticias/12399586/08/23/la-incertidumbre-actual-en-bonos-crea-dos-apuestas-contrarias-en-el-mercado.html

https://www.eleconomista.es/flash/index.php#flash_40194

La 'halcón' Bowman insiste en otra subida de tipos en EEUU

Saludos.