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Hiring freeze at Unilever: 7 points that HR needs to consider now

The consumer goods company Unilever is imposing a global hiring freeze. The reason: the economic situation as a result of the Iran war. This shows how geopolitical shocks have a direct impact on the human resources strategies of global corporations. Matthias Kempf, President of the Federal Association of Human Resources Managers, knows what HR specifically needs to pay attention to in the case of hiring freezes. The global hiring freeze applies at all hierarchical levels. According to an internal letter available to the Reuters news agency, the stop will last at least three months. Fabian Garcia, head of the personal…

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Clippy could have taught us: When AI tools do more harm than good

“Looks like you’re writing a letter. Do you need help?” Generations of Windows users will cringe at this sentence. Clippy, the self-proclaimed paperclip-shaped office assistant, was a prime example of well-intentioned technology that no one wanted because it was simply useless. Clippy was never able to help, just annoyed. When Microsoft finally abolished it in 2007, the world breathed a sigh of relief. 20 years after Clippy: history repeats itself Now, almost twenty years later, history appears to be repeating itself on a larger scale. Microsoft is rolling back its Copilot integration in Windows 11, removing AI functions from Notepad,…

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Trial against Ábalos, Koldo and Aldama, live | Ábalos’s son, about his conversations with Koldo García: “I neither speak in code nor have I had an encrypted phone” | Spain

Víctor Ábalos: “I neither speak in code nor have I had an encrypted phone”Víctor Manuel Ábalos, eldest son of former minister José Manuel Ábalos, has defended in his statement that he did not participate in the plot of the Koldo case nor did he communicate in code with its members. Asked by the popular accusation about the intercepted communications between him and Koldo, where he urged him through the code concept “coffee” to speak by another means, Ábalos’s son settled: “I neither speak in code nor have I had an encrypted device.””In the proceedings, in a UCO report, at a…

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Holy Week concludes in Catalonia without fatalities on the roads | News from Catalonia

Some 545,000 vehicles have returned to the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona between 12:00 p.m. on Sunday and 8:00 p.m. this Monday, 92% of the 590,000 planned by the Servei Català de Trànsit. The rest of the vehicles are expected to return throughout the night, during the second phase of the traffic arrangement on Catalan roads for Easter. The day has been generally calm, although a vegetation fire has complicated traffic this afternoon on the C-32 highway near Gavà (Barcelona). According to the Government’s first balance sheet, no fatalities have been recorded on the inter-urban road network of Catalonia since the…

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Génova avoids defending Rajoy after Bárcenas’ attacks and marks distances: “The PP of 2026 is neither Kitchen nor Gürtel” | Spain

The national leadership of the PP has avoided this Monday making an express defense of the former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy and the former general secretary of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal, who will testify as witnesses in the trial of the Kitchen case that began today in the National Court and to whom the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas has pointed out in a veiled manner. At the press conference after the PP steering committee, the PP deputy secretary of the Treasury, Juan Bravo, was asked if he trusts the innocence of Rajoy and…

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The week begins with clear skies in much of the country, but the arrival of a new storm is expected at the end of the day | The weather today in Spain and in the world

Spain faces a start to the week with good weather in most of the territory. Lightly cloudy and clear skies are expected, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). However, the stability that accompanied us during Holy Week will be short-lived. A change is expected at the end of the day, due to the entry of a new storm from the Atlantic Ocean. The agency also reported that bands of clouds and precipitation are expected, along with an unstable air mass of subtropical origin. He states that this change in trend could affect Galicia and other points in the western…

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One stabbed and thirteen arrested after a fight between two groups in the Barcelona metro | News from Catalonia

The events occurred at midnight in the Nou Barris districtImages of the Barcelona metro.GIANLUCA BATTISTAOne person has been injured by a knife and thirteen have been arrested after a fight between two groups in the Barcelona metro last night. According to police sources, the events occurred around midnight last night on the platform of the El Coll i la Teixonera metro station, during a fight between two groups, for reasons that the Mossos d’Esquadra are investigating.During the fight, advanced by Global Chroniclea person has been injured by a knife and has required medical attention. The other group fled, although several…

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The Valencian writer Josep Piera, innovator of poetry, tireless traveler and cultural activist, dies | News from the Valencian Community

Josep Piera used his deep voice, his contagious enthusiasm, his vast knowledge and his playful irony in any topic of conversation: when he praised the poetry of his admired Auisiàs March, he discussed the cooking point of paella rice or he recounted his latest discovery on a trip to Morocco or Greece or on a walk through La Drova (Barx), where he settled to live in the mid-seventies.He was a full-time narrator, a storyteller, a cultural agitator, a poet of the 70s generation who renewed the lyrical landscape and knocked on the doors of freedom and pleasures in every sense.…

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