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The birth rate continues to fall in Barcelona. The reading of the registry as of January 1 of this year shows that in 2025 it was the second lowest since 1900: 11,012 children were born, 1.3% compared to the previous year. The first was 1939, the last of the Civil War (about 9,000), when the city’s population was around one million people. The decline has been sustained since the late 70s of last year, with a slight rebound in the first decade of this century. On the other hand, deaths in 2025 were 14,557, 1% less. The drop in the…
If you want to enjoy the sun and beach in summer, you don’t necessarily have to take time off. At least not if a work assignment has been agreed with the employer. “Workation” – i.e. the fusion of work (“work”) and vacation (“vacation”) has gained in popularity since the increasing emergence of mobile work during Corona times. What may sound tempting to many who do not necessarily have to do their job on site in the company, however, involves a number of legal pitfalls. These arise, among other things, from the fact that the framework conditions for workation are not…
No seating arrangement in the Bundestag, coalition agreements already in the election campaign: Robert Habeck is thinking out loud about a different style of politics. In the SPIEGEL top-level conversation with Markus Feldenkirchen, the former economics minister appears thoughtful – and biting.
An international team of researchers evaluated more than 3,000 real applications in cooperation with one of the “world’s leading recruitment platforms”. The results show that human recruiters show several cognitive biases, while these patterns do not occur or occur less in AI. Overall, compared to experienced recruiters, the AI was able to better assess in the long term who is likely to be successful for the advertised positions. The study was designed to evaluate a total of 3,296 real applications in the US for three tech job categories: programmer, web designer and content creator. Specifically, it was about asynchronous interviews,…
Unfocused, which arrives at the CaixaFòrum Barcelona (until September 27) after being seen in Madrid, is undoubtedly an exhibition to rub your eyes, not only because of the astonishment caused by some works that are a hymn to the blurry, the imprecise and the “failed photo”, but because of the uncomfortable feeling that you have throughout the tour that you are not seeing well. And that’s what it’s about: generating that doubt, that imbalance and that discomfort in your gaze as a way for you to rethink and question notions about art and the representation of reality. The exhibition, the…
White smoke, finally. After 16 days and eight meetings, unions and the Department of Education have reached a preliminary agreement on salaries and global improvements in classroom conditions, which will allow teachers to earn 400 euros more per month within four years and more than 6,000 new staff of teachers and educational staff in this period. This puts an end to one of the conflicts that the Government of Salvador Illa has been facing for three months and puts an end to strikes that have filled the streets and emptied the classrooms, but which have also worn down the Government…
Israel and the US secret services are said to have helped: The Emiratis attacked Iran in the spring much harder than previously known. And the current negotiations? The Ayatollahs are now accusing Donald Trump of fake news.
In the past few weeks there have been interesting chair changes in the world of HR consultants and service providers. Here we present the most important ones. Sebastian Dettmers (Foto: Stepstone) The Stepstone Group has appointed Christian Schmalzl as its new Chief Executive Officer. Schmalzl will take up his position on September 1, 2026 and succeeds Sebastian Dettmers, who is leaving the company after 15 years. Dettmers has been CEO since January 2020 and previously served as Managing Director for Germany from 2011; Under his leadership, Stepstone developed from a European job exchange into an HR technology group with activities…
The Generalitat Budgets for 2026 amount to 33,305 million euros, which represents a growth of 3.1% and 1,014 million euros more than the current regional accounts. It is “the largest and most important in the history” of the Valencian Community with 80% destined to reinforce public services and the commitment to public education, as highlighted this Friday by the president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca. Previously, the full Council had approved the bill, which has already been delivered to Les Corts Valencianes for the start of its parliamentary processing.Continue reading
Black and red got stuck in the dispute over the eight-hour day, now economists are making a proposal: the maximum working hours could initially only be extended for certain professions. However, there is a warning from the unions.