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‘Swapping homes like stocks’: Wall Street-backed firm buys 264 valley homes in a dayA Wall Street-backed corporate landlord bought hundreds of Clark County homes in a staggering one-off residential sale in summer 2023.Miami-based investment firm Starwood Capital Group sold 264 homes in Clark County for $98 million to Dallas-based Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH), according to Clark County property records.The deal, made in three separate transactions, closed on July 18, property records show. The largest sale was $57.5 million for 155 homes, the second was $26.3 million for 70 homes and the third was $14.1 million for 39.The majority of the homes sold are in the city of Las Vegas (94), followed by the city of North Las Vegas with 77. The price range for each home ranged from around $292,000 to $694,000, with the average price at $371,514.The sale is part of a much larger deal between Starwood Capital and Invitation Homes, a $650 million swap for a portfolio of close to 1,900 single-family rental homes, with the majority being in the Sun Belt, including in Texas, Florida, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.Wall Street-backed hedge funds, corporate landlords and cash-rich investors have been buying up single-family homes across the country as far back as 2009, which experts say means fewer houses on the market for families to purchase. That also could lead to higher rental prices and fewer affordable homes in regions such as the Las Vegas Valley. A MetLife Investment Management study shows these companies could own close to 40 percent of all U.S. houses by 2030.Concerning the $98 million sale, an Invitation Homes representative said the purchase was part of a “larger portfolio acquisition across multiple markets,” but declined to comment further on the deal. As of the third quarter of 2023, the company had bought 2,291 homes for $854 million during the year, which includes the 264 homes in the Las Vegas Valley, according to its latest earnings report. Starwood Capital declined to comment on the sale.Noah Herrera, a real estate agent who has worked in the Las Vegas Valley for nearly 30 years, said Wall Street-backed hedge funds and large corporate landlords first got involved in the housing market after the Great Recession in 2008-09, when real estate values bottomed out across the country.Herrera said he worked with a few corporate landlords during the initial buying phase in 2008-09, and they told him they would resell what they bought in five years. But these landlords never put these houses back on the market, he said.He said what scares him the most about corporate America getting involved in residential real estate is what are known as “rental-backed securities,” where companies such as Invitation are selling to investors. The product has a lot of similarities to mortgage-backed securities, one of the downfalls of the housing market during the 2008-09 crash.“They’ve turned these homes into collateralized rental obligations. They’ve collateralized them and what they’re doing is swapping homes like stocks for one another.”How many homes does Invitation own?Rutgers University researcher Eric Seymour, who compiled data with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, said Invitation Homes owns about 3,500 homes in Clark County, a number that has jumped since 2019 when they owned fewer than 3,100 homes. That makes it the second-largest owner of single-family rental homes in Clark County.Progress Residential — the largest corporate landlord in Clark County — owns more than 3,700 homes, more than double their portfolio in 2019.Seymour said Starwood recently purchased some properties from Scottsdale, Arizona-based Progress Residential, which builds and owns more than 85,000 single-family rental homes across 30 metros. He added this is par for the course in today’s real estate market, as massive multibillion-dollar companies are swapping housing stock like stocks.“Large single-family landlords like Invitation and Progress first acquired inventory following the foreclosure crisis, when they bought homes at discounted prices,” he said. “They’ve since grown primarily through acquisitions of competitor firms. As these companies settled in as landlords, they’ve also made bulk deals with competitor firms to grow or shed their presence in particular markets. They are essentially trading with each other to enhance the performance of their overall inventory.”UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate Director Shawn McCoy estimates that investors (anyone who has bought more than 10 homes in the past five years) own approximately 15 percent of all of the single-family homes in Clark County, a number that has been rising steadily since the Great Recession.But to Mark Pingle, a professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Reno, this swap might not be the best rate of return on the company’s investment. On average, each home sold for roughly $370,000 and many of the rentals listed on Invitation Homes’ website average around $2,600, which gives the companies a low rate of return on their investment at about 5 percent.“They must be thinking the prices of those houses, long term, will go up,” Pingle said. “It doesn’t seem like it’s a great financial deal.”But because people need a place to live, ultimately the economist believes the revenue is relatively safe.Although corporate landlords are exchanging hundreds of homes at a time, Pingle said he is not concerned about what the companies are doing and believes it’s “a drop in the bucket,” as there are more than a quarter of a million homes in Clark County. He also doesn’t believe there is a risk of a monopoly just yet, as there are many competing companies in the area.“To me, what you’ll tend to see is more people living in, instead of single-family homes, you’ll see a higher percentage living in apartment buildings,” Pingle said, noting there will be a decline in home ownership.Political movement?Politicians and housing advocates across the country point to the growing corporate ownership of American homes as the reason for inflated home prices and rental rates across major cities and counties in the U.S., including Clark County.U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., who represents Nevada’s 4th Congressional District including North Las Vegas, where the majority of corporate owned single-family rental homes in Clark County reside, said one of the biggest concerns he hears from constituents is the high cost of rent and access to affordable housing.Horsford reintroduced legislation early in 2023, called the Housing Oversight and Mitigating Exploitation (HOME) Act, noting that “large institutional speculators” are buying up America’s housing market at an alarming rate. The bill aims to help protect Americans by creating institutional oversight in the housing market, such as allowing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate corporate landlord purchases and stamp out market manipulation.“I continue to call for federal investigations into whether corporate landlords have artificially inflated rent and property costs or have systematically targeted certain communities of color, single mothers, or retirees,” Horsford said in a statement to the Review-Journal. “These bulk sales are evidence that once an out-of-state corporate speculator purchases a home, it is unlikely to resurface on the housing market for everyday working families, artificially lowering our already dire supply of housing in Southern Nevada.”Estimates from the National Low Income Housing Coalition are that Clark County is already short more than 80,000 affordable housing units, a number that has been rising for years.Horsford said under the Republican majority in the House this year, they only had one hearing for the housing subcommittee he sits on.“If we are to address this issue that is impacting so many Nevadans, we have to spend more time discussing the facts,” he said. “In the last Congress, under Chairwoman Maxine Waters, the Financial Services Committee had a hearing on this topic. Progress Residential and Invitation Homes were included in the research conducted by the committee and showed that these companies had elevated fees, higher than average evictions, and were more likely to cost burden their lower-income rentals.”Another bill was also introduced in December by Democrats U.S. Rep. Adam Smith of Washington and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon in both houses of Congress called the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023. This bill would tackle the problem by banning hedge fund investors from owning large numbers of homes by establishing a $20,000 federal tax penalty per single family owned in excess of 100.Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is currently polling third behind President Joe Biden and Republican front-runner Donald Trump in a NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National poll, said he is not sure why this has not already become a major campaign platform given its overall impact on the American real estate market, and does expect housing to become a big ticket item in the 2024 presidential election.Both the White House and Trump’s media team did not respond to a request for comment on this story.“Honestly, I don’t know why this isn’t a more prominent issue among national politicians,” Kennedy said in a statement. “Possibly, they are reluctant to offend Wall Street and the big institutional buyers. In any event, this is a serious issue for our country, because home ownership is the quintessence of the American Dream and a key to stable communities. When people do not own their own home, they are in a literal sense less invested in their community. They are also economically vulnerable to rent hikes.”
'Rich Dad Poor Dad' Author Says He's Racked Up More Than $1 Billion in DebtPosted by msmash on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:30AM from the how-about-that dept.A bestselling personal finance author and entrepreneur admits that he has more than $1 billion in debt -- and he doesn't think that's a bad thing. From a report:Citar"If I go bust, the bank goes bust," said "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" author Robert Kiyosaki in a Nov. 30 Instagram reel. "Not my problem." That's because his debt has been used to purchase assets, he said in the video. He compared that with using debt to purchase liabilities, such as his Ferrari or Rolls-Royce vehicles -- expenses he's paid off in full, he said."I'm a billion dollars in debt because debt is money," Kiyosaki said during an interview on the "Disruptors" podcast. It connects to his strategy of using cash earnings to purchase precious metals like gold or silver, which Kiyosaki argues will retain their value while the U.S. dollar fluctuates: "toilet paper," he called it. Kiyosaki is one of the country's most well-known personal finance personalities. His 1997 book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," which was originally self-published, has sold more than 40 million copies.
"If I go bust, the bank goes bust," said "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" author Robert Kiyosaki in a Nov. 30 Instagram reel. "Not my problem." That's because his debt has been used to purchase assets, he said in the video. He compared that with using debt to purchase liabilities, such as his Ferrari or Rolls-Royce vehicles -- expenses he's paid off in full, he said."I'm a billion dollars in debt because debt is money," Kiyosaki said during an interview on the "Disruptors" podcast. It connects to his strategy of using cash earnings to purchase precious metals like gold or silver, which Kiyosaki argues will retain their value while the U.S. dollar fluctuates: "toilet paper," he called it. Kiyosaki is one of the country's most well-known personal finance personalities. His 1997 book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," which was originally self-published, has sold more than 40 million copies.
Xerox To Cut 15% of Workers in Strategy It Calls a 'Reinvention'Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:48PM from the up-next dept.Xerox will lay off 15% of its workforce as the struggling digital printing company moves to cut costs and jump-start growth. From a report:CitarIn announcing the cuts, Xerox said Wednesday it is adopting a new operating model and organizational structure aimed at boosting its core print business, while also forming a new business services unit. CEO Steven Bandrowczak said in a statement that the shift will enhance the company's ability to efficiently bring products and services to market, labeling the strategic pivot at Xerox a "reinvention." As of October 2023, Xerox had roughly 20,000 employees, according to the company's website.
In announcing the cuts, Xerox said Wednesday it is adopting a new operating model and organizational structure aimed at boosting its core print business, while also forming a new business services unit. CEO Steven Bandrowczak said in a statement that the shift will enhance the company's ability to efficiently bring products and services to market, labeling the strategic pivot at Xerox a "reinvention." As of October 2023, Xerox had roughly 20,000 employees, according to the company's website.
The Wealthiest Californians are Leaving the State, Hurting the Economy, Statistics ConfirmPosted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 31, 2023 @05:42PM from the you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like dept."For several years, thousands more high-earning, well-educated workers have left California than have moved in," reports the Los Angeles Times:CitarEven though California has experienced lopsided out-migration for decades, the financial blow has been cushioned by the kinds of people moving into the state: The newcomers were generally better educated and earned more money than those who left. Not now: That long-standing trend has reversed...The reversal, largely in response to the state's high taxes and soaring cost of living, has begun to damage California's overall economy. And, by cutting into tax revenues, has delivered punishing blows to state and local governments. State budget analysts recently projected a record $68 billion deficit in the next fiscal year because of a 25% drop in personal income tax collection in 2023. Some city, county and other local taxing authorities, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, have also recorded revenue declines. With investors and high-income taxpayers receiving substantial compensation in the form of stocks, last year's sluggish stock market accounted for a major share of the decline in state income tax revenues. So did layoffs and financial weakness in the tech sector. But rising unemployment in the state and the growing flight of professionals, business operators and others making good salaries were also notable contributors. And those factors will be harder to reverse, at least in the foreseeable future."There's a price to pay for the movement of middle- and upper-income people and corporations," said Joel Kotkin, a fellow at Chapman University who has researched the flight from California and the resulting threat to the state's fiscal outlook. "People who are leaving are taking their tax dollars with them."The accelerating exodus from California in recent years, of both companies and people, has been well documented. The pandemic-induced rise in remote work, inflated housing prices and changing social conditions have spurred more Californians to pull up stakes... Moody's Analytics economist Mark Zandi analyzed moves in and out of California for The Times using Equifax credit data, to zero in on the age of the movers. He found that since the pandemic in early 2020, California has lost residents in every age group, but by a significant margin the biggest net out-migration came from those 35 to 44 years old. "This is probably motivated by the severe housing affordability crisis in California," Zandi said. "It's all but impossible for them to become homeowners in the state."Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, who has written about demographic trends in migration, thinks the increased loss of higher-educated Californians to other states in recent years can be traced in significant part to the rise of remote work since the pandemic. As more employers call workers back to the office, and the share of fully remote work appears to have settled at around 10% of all employees, McGhee expects the net out-migration from California to slow...Even if the outflow of residents reverts to pre-pandemic levels, the broader economic climate doesn't bode well for the state's budget and economic outlook, at least in the immediate future. The U.S. economy is slowing, and California's economy is decelerating faster than the nation's, with the state's unemployment rate, most recently at 4.8%, already a full point higher than nationwide.The article clarifies that "it's not just the sheer numbers of people who have left. What's different is that in each of the prior two years, more than 250,000 Californians with at least a bachelor's degree moved out, while an average of 175,000 college graduates from other states settled in California, according to an analysis of census data by William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. In prior periods over the last two decades, that balance was about even or slightly in California's favor."And besides billionaires, "There's been a broader exodus of ordinary Californians in the upper-income spectrum as well. In the tax filing years 2020 and 2021, the average gross income of taxpayers who had moved from California to another state was about $137,000. That was up from $75,000 in 2015 and 2016, according to migration and personal income data from the Internal Revenue Service."
Even though California has experienced lopsided out-migration for decades, the financial blow has been cushioned by the kinds of people moving into the state: The newcomers were generally better educated and earned more money than those who left. Not now: That long-standing trend has reversed...The reversal, largely in response to the state's high taxes and soaring cost of living, has begun to damage California's overall economy. And, by cutting into tax revenues, has delivered punishing blows to state and local governments. State budget analysts recently projected a record $68 billion deficit in the next fiscal year because of a 25% drop in personal income tax collection in 2023. Some city, county and other local taxing authorities, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, have also recorded revenue declines. With investors and high-income taxpayers receiving substantial compensation in the form of stocks, last year's sluggish stock market accounted for a major share of the decline in state income tax revenues. So did layoffs and financial weakness in the tech sector. But rising unemployment in the state and the growing flight of professionals, business operators and others making good salaries were also notable contributors. And those factors will be harder to reverse, at least in the foreseeable future."There's a price to pay for the movement of middle- and upper-income people and corporations," said Joel Kotkin, a fellow at Chapman University who has researched the flight from California and the resulting threat to the state's fiscal outlook. "People who are leaving are taking their tax dollars with them."The accelerating exodus from California in recent years, of both companies and people, has been well documented. The pandemic-induced rise in remote work, inflated housing prices and changing social conditions have spurred more Californians to pull up stakes... Moody's Analytics economist Mark Zandi analyzed moves in and out of California for The Times using Equifax credit data, to zero in on the age of the movers. He found that since the pandemic in early 2020, California has lost residents in every age group, but by a significant margin the biggest net out-migration came from those 35 to 44 years old. "This is probably motivated by the severe housing affordability crisis in California," Zandi said. "It's all but impossible for them to become homeowners in the state."Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, who has written about demographic trends in migration, thinks the increased loss of higher-educated Californians to other states in recent years can be traced in significant part to the rise of remote work since the pandemic. As more employers call workers back to the office, and the share of fully remote work appears to have settled at around 10% of all employees, McGhee expects the net out-migration from California to slow...Even if the outflow of residents reverts to pre-pandemic levels, the broader economic climate doesn't bode well for the state's budget and economic outlook, at least in the immediate future. The U.S. economy is slowing, and California's economy is decelerating faster than the nation's, with the state's unemployment rate, most recently at 4.8%, already a full point higher than nationwide.
EE.UU. necesita 67.000 trabajadores para semiconductores hasta 2030, ¿la solución? Una Visa para los fabricantes de chipsEl Chapuzas Informático | 2024.01.06Estados unidos tiene un serio problema desde hace ya algunos años, y no es simple de corregir. Tiene la industria de semiconductores más fuerte del mundo en términos generales, por encima de Taiwán y China, pero para su desgracia, a diferencia de estos, no tiene suficiente mano de obra cualificada. No es que sus dos rivales estén mucho mejor, pero las políticas del gobierno están incentivando el talento nacional. ¿Cómo piensa paliar EE.UU. la falta de trabajadores en el sector de los semiconductores? Pues de la misma manera que ha hecho siempre cuando el talento nacional no aflora, al menos, según el último informe de SIA, salvo que en este caso, EE.UU. tendrá que crear una Visa para los fabricantes de chips.Un nuevo informe titulado como Chipping Away: Assessing and Addressing the Labor Market Gap Facing the US Semiconductor Industry hace referencia al problema que está teniendo el país de las barras y las estrellas en plena expansión e inversión pública y privada con los chips. Dicho informe lanza una serie de recomendaciones, sobre todo políticas, para abordar y complementar las iniciativas de desarrollo necesarias, que como veremos, no son pocas.EE.UU. necesita 67.000 trabajadores hasta 2030: llega la Visa para los fabricantes de chipsExpandirte en tiempo récord no es solamente una cosa de dinero, construir las infraestructuras, traer la maquinaria y producir. Por suerte, todavía se necesitan personas, muchas personas, que apoyen y complementen a los más de 1,4 millones de trabajadores que tienen los americanos en su suelo sumando industrias anexas. En concreto, y como decíamos, el informe pone los puntos sobre las íes afirmando que se necesitan, al menos, 67.000 trabajadores más en los próximos 6 años.Matt Johnson, presidente y director ejecutivo de Silicon Labs y presidente de la junta directiva de SIA comentó que "los trabajadores de semiconductores son la fuerza impulsora detrás del crecimiento y la innovación en la industria de chips y en toda la economía estadounidense, y por ello, una colaboración eficaz entre el gobierno y la industria puede superar la escasez de talento que enfrenta nuestra industria, crear la fuerza laboral tecnológica estadounidense más sólida posible y liberar todo el potencial de la innovación en semiconductores".De hecho, el estudio afirma que la fuerza laboral para nuestro sector crecerá en casi 115.000 puestos de trabajo para dicho año, es decir, que se pasará en EE.UU. de 345.000 a 460.000, casi medio millón de personas. Por lo tanto, se entiende que esos 67.000 trabajadores son la cifra mínima necesaria, y que lo ideal es acercarse a esos 115.000.Tres recomendaciones para poder alcanzar esos valoresEl desafío es mayúsculo, porque son solo 6 años y el número de trabajadores que se tienen que sumar es increíblemente alto, ya que son de alto valor y China, Taiwán, Corea del Sur y Europa pugnan también por ellos. Por eso, el informe apunta hacia tres medidas muy claras para solucionar el problema de EE.UU. y los trabajadores para semiconductores:Fortalecer el apoyo a las asociaciones y programas regionales destinados a aumentar la cartera de técnicos calificados para la fabricación de semiconductores y otros sectores de fabricación avanzados.Hacer crecer la cartera nacional de STEM para ingenieros e informáticos vitales para la industria de semiconductores y otros sectores que son fundamentales para la economía futura.Retener y atraer más estudiantes internacionales de grado avanzado dentro de la economía estadounidense.Con todo esto en mente, el estudio afirma que "aproximadamente el 39% de la brecha (26.400 empleos) estará en ocupaciones técnicas, el 41% (27.300 empleos) en ocupaciones de ingeniería y el 20% (13.400 empleos) en Ciencias de la Computación."En resumen, EE.UU. sabe que no va a poder formar a tantos trabajadores en tantas áreas distintas, y por ello, abre las puertas para todos aquellos que quieran sumarse a esta cuarta revolución industrial, en su país, desde el extranjero. Para ello, EE.UU. creará una Visa para los fabricantes de chips, de manera que puedan importar el talento extranjero que sea necesario.Por tanto, EE.UU. se ha convertido de facto en uno de los destinos laborales más prometedores del mundo junto con China, Corea del Sur y Taiwán, Europa, Alemania para ser exactos, también tiene un filón interesante de cara a este 2024 y sobre todo 2025.
El artículo de SIA al que hace referencia el post data del 25 de julio de 2023, pero, aun así, es una muestra más de lo que tenemos ya encima en cuanto a la escasez de mano de obra (cualificada –como en este caso– o no) y que ya es evidente urbi et orbi...CitarEE.UU. necesita 67.000 trabajadores para semiconductores hasta 2030, ¿la solución? Una Visa para los fabricantes de chipsEl Chapuzas Informático | 2024.01.06Estados unidos tiene un serio problema desde hace ya algunos años, y no es simple de corregir. Tiene la industria de semiconductores más fuerte del mundo en términos generales, por encima de Taiwán y China, pero para su desgracia, a diferencia de estos, no tiene suficiente mano de obra cualificada. No es que sus dos rivales estén mucho mejor, pero las políticas del gobierno están incentivando el talento nacional. ¿Cómo piensa paliar EE.UU. la falta de trabajadores en el sector de los semiconductores? Pues de la misma manera que ha hecho siempre cuando el talento nacional no aflora, al menos, según el último informe de SIA, salvo que en este caso, EE.UU. tendrá que crear una Visa para los fabricantes de chips.Un nuevo informe titulado como Chipping Away: Assessing and Addressing the Labor Market Gap Facing the US Semiconductor Industry hace referencia al problema que está teniendo el país de las barras y las estrellas en plena expansión e inversión pública y privada con los chips. Dicho informe lanza una serie de recomendaciones, sobre todo políticas, para abordar y complementar las iniciativas de desarrollo necesarias, que como veremos, no son pocas.EE.UU. necesita 67.000 trabajadores hasta 2030: llega la Visa para los fabricantes de chipsExpandirte en tiempo récord no es solamente una cosa de dinero, construir las infraestructuras, traer la maquinaria y producir. Por suerte, todavía se necesitan personas, muchas personas, que apoyen y complementen a los más de 1,4 millones de trabajadores que tienen los americanos en su suelo sumando industrias anexas. En concreto, y como decíamos, el informe pone los puntos sobre las íes afirmando que se necesitan, al menos, 67.000 trabajadores más en los próximos 6 años.Matt Johnson, presidente y director ejecutivo de Silicon Labs y presidente de la junta directiva de SIA comentó que "los trabajadores de semiconductores son la fuerza impulsora detrás del crecimiento y la innovación en la industria de chips y en toda la economía estadounidense, y por ello, una colaboración eficaz entre el gobierno y la industria puede superar la escasez de talento que enfrenta nuestra industria, crear la fuerza laboral tecnológica estadounidense más sólida posible y liberar todo el potencial de la innovación en semiconductores".De hecho, el estudio afirma que la fuerza laboral para nuestro sector crecerá en casi 115.000 puestos de trabajo para dicho año, es decir, que se pasará en EE.UU. de 345.000 a 460.000, casi medio millón de personas. Por lo tanto, se entiende que esos 67.000 trabajadores son la cifra mínima necesaria, y que lo ideal es acercarse a esos 115.000.Tres recomendaciones para poder alcanzar esos valoresEl desafío es mayúsculo, porque son solo 6 años y el número de trabajadores que se tienen que sumar es increíblemente alto, ya que son de alto valor y China, Taiwán, Corea del Sur y Europa pugnan también por ellos. Por eso, el informe apunta hacia tres medidas muy claras para solucionar el problema de EE.UU. y los trabajadores para semiconductores:Fortalecer el apoyo a las asociaciones y programas regionales destinados a aumentar la cartera de técnicos calificados para la fabricación de semiconductores y otros sectores de fabricación avanzados.Hacer crecer la cartera nacional de STEM para ingenieros e informáticos vitales para la industria de semiconductores y otros sectores que son fundamentales para la economía futura.Retener y atraer más estudiantes internacionales de grado avanzado dentro de la economía estadounidense.Con todo esto en mente, el estudio afirma que "aproximadamente el 39% de la brecha (26.400 empleos) estará en ocupaciones técnicas, el 41% (27.300 empleos) en ocupaciones de ingeniería y el 20% (13.400 empleos) en Ciencias de la Computación."En resumen, EE.UU. sabe que no va a poder formar a tantos trabajadores en tantas áreas distintas, y por ello, abre las puertas para todos aquellos que quieran sumarse a esta cuarta revolución industrial, en su país, desde el extranjero. Para ello, EE.UU. creará una Visa para los fabricantes de chips, de manera que puedan importar el talento extranjero que sea necesario.Por tanto, EE.UU. se ha convertido de facto en uno de los destinos laborales más prometedores del mundo junto con China, Corea del Sur y Taiwán, Europa, Alemania para ser exactos, también tiene un filón interesante de cara a este 2024 y sobre todo 2025.Saludos.
Se indignan con Gonzalo Bernardos por su respuesta a una joven que no puede pagar un alquilerhttps://www.huffingtonpost.es/entry/se-indignan-con-gonzalo-bernardos-por-su-respuesta-a-una-joven-que-no-puede-pagar-un-alquiler-digno_es_634d0e80e4b0b7f89f585cfd.htmlEn ese momento, Bernardos preguntó: ”¿Dónde es esto?”. “En Madrid”, replicó ella. ”¡Ah! ¿Madrid, Madrid? Y, por ejemplo, ¿vivir a 30 o 40 kilómetros de Madrid? ¿Cómo esta esto?”, preguntó el economista,“Hombre, pero yo tengo un trabajo al que ir”, se justificó la chica. “Ya, pero resulta que en Madrid quiere vivir mucha gente y por tanto los precios suben”, insistió Bernardos ante la indignación de algunos de los presentes en el plató.“Quiero vivir dignamente en Madrid”, afirmó Sabela. Pero Bernardos se mostró rotundo: “Lo que no puedes aspirar es que Madrid sea un magnífico sitio para trabajar, que venga muchísima gente a Madrid, no puedes aspirar a todo”.La joven aseguró entonces que ella gana 1.700 euros al mes y que casi la mitad de ese sueldo se le iría en pagar un piso. “En Móstoles se vive muy bien y hay muchos sitios en que se vive muy bien. Lo que no podemos hacer es que el hijo viva al lado de la mamá”, zanjó Bernardos.
Cita de: Cadavre Exquis en Enero 07, 2024, 21:47:42 pmEl artículo de SIA al que hace referencia el post data del 25 de julio de 2023, pero, aun así, es una muestra más de lo que tenemos ya encima en cuanto a la escasez de mano de obra (cualificada –como en este caso– o no) y que ya es evidente urbi et orbi...CitarEE.UU. necesita 67.000 trabajadores para semiconductores hasta 2030, ¿la solución? Una Visa para los fabricantes de chipsEl Chapuzas Informático | 2024.01.06Estados unidos tiene un serio problema desde hace ya algunos años, y no es simple de corregir. Tiene la industria de semiconductores más fuerte del mundo en términos generales, por encima de Taiwán y China, pero para su desgracia, a diferencia de estos, no tiene suficiente mano de obra cualificada. No es que sus dos rivales estén mucho mejor, pero las políticas del gobierno están incentivando el talento nacional. ¿Cómo piensa paliar EE.UU. la falta de trabajadores en el sector de los semiconductores? Pues de la misma manera que ha hecho siempre cuando el talento nacional no aflora, al menos, según el último informe de SIA, salvo que en este caso, EE.UU. tendrá que crear una Visa para los fabricantes de chips.Un nuevo informe titulado como Chipping Away: Assessing and Addressing the Labor Market Gap Facing the US Semiconductor Industry hace referencia al problema que está teniendo el país de las barras y las estrellas en plena expansión e inversión pública y privada con los chips. Dicho informe lanza una serie de recomendaciones, sobre todo políticas, para abordar y complementar las iniciativas de desarrollo necesarias, que como veremos, no son pocas.EE.UU. necesita 67.000 trabajadores hasta 2030: llega la Visa para los fabricantes de chipsExpandirte en tiempo récord no es solamente una cosa de dinero, construir las infraestructuras, traer la maquinaria y producir. Por suerte, todavía se necesitan personas, muchas personas, que apoyen y complementen a los más de 1,4 millones de trabajadores que tienen los americanos en su suelo sumando industrias anexas. En concreto, y como decíamos, el informe pone los puntos sobre las íes afirmando que se necesitan, al menos, 67.000 trabajadores más en los próximos 6 años.Matt Johnson, presidente y director ejecutivo de Silicon Labs y presidente de la junta directiva de SIA comentó que "los trabajadores de semiconductores son la fuerza impulsora detrás del crecimiento y la innovación en la industria de chips y en toda la economía estadounidense, y por ello, una colaboración eficaz entre el gobierno y la industria puede superar la escasez de talento que enfrenta nuestra industria, crear la fuerza laboral tecnológica estadounidense más sólida posible y liberar todo el potencial de la innovación en semiconductores".De hecho, el estudio afirma que la fuerza laboral para nuestro sector crecerá en casi 115.000 puestos de trabajo para dicho año, es decir, que se pasará en EE.UU. de 345.000 a 460.000, casi medio millón de personas. Por lo tanto, se entiende que esos 67.000 trabajadores son la cifra mínima necesaria, y que lo ideal es acercarse a esos 115.000.Tres recomendaciones para poder alcanzar esos valoresEl desafío es mayúsculo, porque son solo 6 años y el número de trabajadores que se tienen que sumar es increíblemente alto, ya que son de alto valor y China, Taiwán, Corea del Sur y Europa pugnan también por ellos. Por eso, el informe apunta hacia tres medidas muy claras para solucionar el problema de EE.UU. y los trabajadores para semiconductores:Fortalecer el apoyo a las asociaciones y programas regionales destinados a aumentar la cartera de técnicos calificados para la fabricación de semiconductores y otros sectores de fabricación avanzados.Hacer crecer la cartera nacional de STEM para ingenieros e informáticos vitales para la industria de semiconductores y otros sectores que son fundamentales para la economía futura.Retener y atraer más estudiantes internacionales de grado avanzado dentro de la economía estadounidense.Con todo esto en mente, el estudio afirma que "aproximadamente el 39% de la brecha (26.400 empleos) estará en ocupaciones técnicas, el 41% (27.300 empleos) en ocupaciones de ingeniería y el 20% (13.400 empleos) en Ciencias de la Computación."En resumen, EE.UU. sabe que no va a poder formar a tantos trabajadores en tantas áreas distintas, y por ello, abre las puertas para todos aquellos que quieran sumarse a esta cuarta revolución industrial, en su país, desde el extranjero. Para ello, EE.UU. creará una Visa para los fabricantes de chips, de manera que puedan importar el talento extranjero que sea necesario.Por tanto, EE.UU. se ha convertido de facto en uno de los destinos laborales más prometedores del mundo junto con China, Corea del Sur y Taiwán, Europa, Alemania para ser exactos, también tiene un filón interesante de cara a este 2024 y sobre todo 2025.Saludos.Combinen esto con el artículo de Xerox, y aunque parece una contradicción, no lo es.Se ha hablado largo y tendido del "negro 2023" para las tecnológicas. Pero si bien se habla a bombo y platillo sobre la cantidad de despidos, se oculta con un silencio muy incómodo que la mayor parte de los afectados se ha recolocado muy rápido. Y que los despidos se han frenado en seco al descubrir que el riesgo de regalarle talento (como ellos dicen) a la competencia es muy real. Muchas de las grandes tecnológicas se han metido solas en el abrazo del oso. Sobrecontrataron durante la pandemia, tuvieron que hacer no pocas ofertas al alza, y ahora hay que elegir entre susto o muerte. No pueden mantener ese nivel de gasto, pero dado que más de un trabajador ha descubierto que hay vida más allá de las empresas con "pedigrí", tampoco pueden arriesgarse a que deje de entrar gente o se vaya la que ya hay.Y en no pocos casos los despidos han sido un intento de amedrentar a los empleados "que se nos están volviendo muy contestones". Esto va a quedar como un tiro por la culata épico.En el ladrillo la resistencia aún es máxima. En lo laboral, ya está rota. Tras el fiasco de los despidos, ¿qué queda ahora?
ECONOMIA DIGITALLa facturación del mercado mundial de semiconductores cae un 20% hasta marzo y la oferta comienza a superar la demanda.El mercado mundial de semiconductores ha dejado atrás las cifras récord de la pandemia y ha encadenado su tercer trimestre consecutivo de descensos, tras caer la facturación más de un 20% entre enero y marzo con respecto a 2022, en un momento en el que la oferta ha comenzado a superar a la demanda.