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ATLANTA (ANP) - De Amerikaanse pakketbezorger UPS gaat opnieuw reorganiseren en schrapt daarvoor 30.000 extra banen. Dat meldt de Amerikaanse nieuwssite CNBC. In oktober liet het bedrijf al weten 34.000 banen te schrappen, vooral onder chauffeurs en pakketverwerkers, om kosten te besparen en de winstgevendheid te vergroten.
Het pakketbezorgbedrijf, met zo'n 450.000 werknemers, schrapt de extra banen omdat het aantal leveringen voor grootste klant Amazon flink wordt verminderd. Dat is onderdeel van een meerjarig herstelplan. Een groot deel van de opdrachten van Amazon zou niet winstgevend genoeg zijn. De twee bedrijven bouwen daarom hun samenwerking af.
Vorig jaar verdwenen er in totaal 48.000 banen bij UPS, waarvan 34.000 in operationele functies. Ook werd het aantal managementfuncties met 14.000 verminderd. Volgens topman Brian Dykes zullen de geplande banenreducties via natuurlijk verloop gebeuren. Zo komt er een vrijwillig vertrekprogramma voor chauffeurs.
Halle am Berghain, Berlin
This towering display projected inside a former East German power plant-turned-techno stronghold is a gut-wobbling mythological journey that will leave you unhinged
Go up the concrete stairs, cross the concrete floor and mind the concrete pillars. People are groping about in the darkness, waiting for their eyes to adjust, though most give up and start navigating by the light of their smartphones, trying to find Pierre Huyghe’s new work without quite realising they are already in it. Huyghe’s Liminals is more than just a film projected on a towering screen in a gutted power station. It is a quantum experiment, a mythological journey and a terrifying vision, set to a shifting thrum of gut-wobbling vibrations, a sizzling aural rain of dancing particles and sudden ear-splitting crackles which ricochet everywhere. You can’t always tell what’s happening on the screen and what’s happening in the cavernous space around you.
I could feel the vibrations even on the street outside, looking up at the brooding hulk of the defunct 1950s power and heating plant that once serviced the socialist paradise of postwar East Berlin. Now the home of the world’s most famous techno venue, Berghain, it also hosts a queer sex club, dark spaces and bars, while the plant’s former boiler room, the Halle am Berghain, with its columns and suspended coal chutes, has currently been taken over by the LAS Art Foundation to stage a number of exhibitions, including Huyghe’s Liminals.
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Continue reading...One moment by the world No 1 against Alex de Minaur showed he is on a different plane to almost everyone else
One of the biggest matches of Alex de Minaur’s career was already falling from his grasp when his opponent, Carlos Alcaraz, compounded his misery with a selfish stroke of genius. Midway through the third set, the result all but a formality, De Minaur pounded an aggressive forehand down the line and flitted forward to the net.
Against nearly any other player in the world, the Australian would have won that point. Against Alcaraz, the world No 1, De Minaur watched on helplessly as the Spaniard chased down the ball and slid to his right, whipping a forehand down-the-line pass that did not come back. De Minaur could not hide his rueful smile.
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