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Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot

CIO magazine reports that "the push toward in-person work environments will make it more difficult for IT leaders to retain and recruit staff, some experts say."

"In addition to resistance, there would also be the risk of talent turnover," [says Lawrence Wolfe, CTO at marketing firm Converge]... "The truth is, both physical and virtual collaboration provide tremendous value...." IT workers facing work-from-office mandates are two to three times more likely than their counterparts to look for new jobs, according to Metaintro, a search engine that tracks millions of jobs. IT leaders hiring new employees may also face significant headwinds, with it taking 40% to 50% longer to fill in-person roles than remote jobs, according to Metaintro. "Some of the challenges CIOs face include losing top-tier talent, limiting the pool of candidates available for hire, and damaging company culture, with a team filled with resentment," says Lacey Kaelani, CEO and cofounder at Metaintro...


There are several downsides for IT leaders to in-person work mandates, [adds Lena McDearmid, founder and CEO of culture and leadership advisory firm Wryver], as orders to commute to an office can feel arbitrary or rooted in control rather than in value creation. "That erodes trust quickly, particularly in IT teams that proved they could deliver remotely for years," she adds. The mandates can also create new friction for IT leaders by requiring them to deal with morale issues, manage exceptions, and spend time enforcing policy instead of leading strategy, she says. "There's also a real risk of losing experienced, high-performing talent who have options and are unwilling to trade autonomy for proximity without a clear reason," McDearmid adds. "When companies mandate daily commutes without a clear rationale, they often narrow their talent pool and increase attrition, particularly among people who know they can work effectively elsewhere."

McDearmid has seen teams "sitting next to each other" who collaborate poorly "because decisions are unclear or leaders equate visibility with progress... Collaboration doesn't automatically improve just because people share a building."

And Rebecca Wettemann, CEO at IT analyst firm Valoir, warns of return-to-office mandates "being used as a Band-Aid for poor management. When IT professionals feel they're being evaluated based on badge swipes, not real accomplishments, they will either act accordingly or look to work elsewhere."

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Airlines Cancel Over 10,000 US Flights Due To Massive Winter Storm

"Airlines canceled more than 10,000 U.S. flights scheduled for this weekend," reports CNBC, "as a massive winter storm sweeps across the country, with heavy snow and sleet forecast, followed by bitter cold... set to snarl travel for hundreds of thousands of people for days."

More than 3,500 flights on Saturday were canceled, according to flight tracker FlightAware. Many of Saturday's cancellations were in and out of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, with about 1,300 scrubbed flights, and at Dallas Love Field, with 186 cancellations, the majority of the schedule at each airport. American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, had canceled 902 Saturday flights, about 30% of its mainline schedule and Southwest Airlines canceled 571 flights, or 19%, according to FlightAware.

U.S. flight cancellations nearly doubled to more than 7,000 [now up to 8,947] on Sunday when the storm is expected to hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. As of midday on Saturday, most flights from Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina to Portland, Maine, were canceled. Major airline hubs were affected as far south as Atlanta, where Delta Air Lines is based.... American, Delta, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and other U.S. carriers said they are waiving change and cancellation fees as well as fare differences to rebook for customers with tickets to and from more than 40 airports around the country. The waivers include restrictive basic economy tickets.

More than 80% of Sunday's flights at New York's LaGuardian Airport were cancelled, according to the article, at well as 90% of Sunday's flights at Viriginia's Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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Cheap Green Tech Allows Faster Path To Electrification For the Developing World

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According to a new report from think tank "Ember", the availability of cheap green tech can have developing countries profit from earlier investment and skip steps in the transition from fossil to alternatives.

India is put forward as an example. While China's rapid electrification has been hailed as a miracle, by some measures, India is moving ahead faster than China did when it was at similar levels of economic development. It's an indication that clean electricity could be the most direct way to boost growth for other developing economies.

That's mainly because India has access to solar panels and electric cars at a much lower price than China did about a decade ago. Chinese investments lowered the costs of what experts call "modular technologies" — the production of each solar panel, battery cell and electric car enables engineers to learn how to make it more efficiently.

The think tank's team even argues "that countries such as India, which don't have significant domestic fossil-fuel reserves, will become 'electrostates' that meet most of their energy needs through electricity generated from clean sources," according to the article:

No country is an electrostate yet, [says Ember strategist Kingsmill Bond], but countries are increasingly turning to green electricity to power their economies. Nations that are less developed than India will see even more advantages as the cost of electricity technologies, from solar panels and electric vehicles to battery components and minerals, continue to fall.

Neither India nor China is going electric purely to cut emissions or meet climate targets, says Bond. They're doing so because it makes economic sense, particularly for India, which imports more than 40% of its primary energy in the form of coal, oil and gas, according to the International Energy Agency. "To grow and have energy independence, India needs to reduce the terrible burden of fossil-fuel imports worth $150 billion each year," said Bond. "India needs to find other solutions...."

[I]f countries like India find ways to grow electrotech manufacturing without absolute dependence on Chinese equipment, electrification could speed up further. With the U.S. and Europe continuing to add exclusions for Chinese-linked electrotech, countries like India will have an incentive to invest in their own manufacturing capacity. "We are probably at a moment of peak Chinese dominance in the electrotech system, as the rest of the world starts to wake up and realize that this is the energy future," he said.

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Ruim 4000 vluchten VS geschrapt door naderend extreem winterweer

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - In de Verenigde Staten zijn meer dan 4000 vluchten geannuleerd in aanloop naar het extreme winterweer dat op komst is. Ook is al bij ruim 100.000 stroomafnemers de elektriciteit uitgeschakeld. De storm dreigt oostelijke staten van de VS grotendeels plat te leggen door hevige sneeuwval.

Volgens meteorologen trekken sneeuw, natte sneeuw en ijzel, samen met zeer lage temperaturen, zondag en in de komende week over het oostelijke tweederde deel van het land. President Donald Trump noemde de stormen al "historisch" en keurde zaterdag federale noodrampverklaringen goed voor de staten South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana en West Virginia.

"We zullen blijven monitoren en in contact blijven met alle staten die op het pad van deze winterstorm liggen. Blijf veilig en blijf warm," schreef Trump in een bericht op Truth Social.

Zeventien staten en het District of Columbia hebben een weernoodtoestand uitgeroepen.


D66, VVD en CDA zijn 'heel ver' met afspraken over financiën

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De onderhandelende partijen D66, VVD en CDA zijn "echt heel ver" met de afspraken over de financiën, meldt D66-leider Rob Jetten na onderhandelingen die tot in de nacht duurden. "Maar het is helaas nog niet helemaal af." CDA-leider Henri Bontenbal had goede hoop dat het zaterdag zou lukken. Dat lukte niet, maar hij denkt dat zondag mogelijk is.

De planning is dat de partijen komende vrijdag hun coalitieakkoord presenteren. VVD-leider Dilan Yeşilgöz zei dat daaraan voorafgaand meerdere dagen nodig zijn om het akkoord voor te leggen aan de fracties van de drie partijen en de plannen door te laten rekenen door ambtenaren. Ze beaamt desgevraagd dat de onderhandelingen dan dus uiterlijk dinsdag afgerond moeten zijn.


Interim-president Venezuela wil 'akkoorden' sluiten met oppositie

CARACAS (ANP/AFP) - Interim-president van Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez heeft zaterdag opgeroepen tot gesprekken met de oppositie om tot 'akkoorden' voor vrede te komen. Ze deed de uitspraken drie weken nadat de Verenigde Staten president Nicolas Maduro afzetten, gevangennamen en naar een Amerikaanse gevangenis brachten.

"Er kunnen geen politieke of partijpolitieke verschillen zijn als het om vrede in Venezuela gaat", zei Rodriguez op de staatstelevisie. "Ondanks onze verschillen moeten we respectvol met elkaar spreken. Ondanks onze verschillen moeten we samenwerken en tot akkoorden komen."


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Myanmar election enters final stage amid airstrikes and exclusions

Third and final phase of voting taking place on Sunday in village just days after military airstrike killed 21 people

Polling stations open on Sunday for the final stage of Myanmar’s three-phase election, a one-sided vote that has been widely derided as a sham, with politicians jailed, the main opposition party banned and conflict raging across parts of the country.

Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has defended the vote as “free and fair”, presenting it as a return to democracy and stability. The election is happening almost five years after the military seized power in a coup, ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggering a fierce conflict. The 80-year-old has been detained since she was ousted, and her party has been banned.

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Defence department chief Greg Moriarty to succeed Kevin Rudd as Australian ambassador to US

Career public servant and former chief of staff to Malcolm Turnbull to represent Australia’s interests with Trump administration from April, including progression of Aukus agreement

The head of the department of defence, Greg Moriarty, will succeed Kevin Rudd as Australia’s ambassador to the United States.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, announced Moriarty’s appointment to the role on Sunday. A former chief of staff to Malcolm Turnbull and former Australian envoy to Iran and Indonesia, he has led the defence department since 2017. He will take up the posting in Washington from April.

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Australian Open 2026: Sabalenka and Alcaraz in action as cooler day brings relief from heat

Aryna Sabalenka takes on Victoria Mboko; Carlos Alcaraz to face Tommy Paul
Updates from Sunday’s day session at Melbourne Park | Email Joey

The other contender for yesterday’s biggest story came later in the evening, when Naomi Osaka (16) withdrew from the Australian Open just hours before she was set to face Aussie qualifier Maddison Inglis, citing an abdominal injury linked to body changes from her pregnancy.

We had a big few stories yesterday but a contender for the biggest fortune, and a enforced heat break, coming to the aid of Jannik Sinner (2) as he struggled with full-body cramps in the stifling conditions against 85th-ranked American Eliot Spizzirri.

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Protesters supporting Palestine Action hunger striker arrested outside prison

Police said group breached HMP Wormwood Scrubs grounds where Umer Khalid is being held

A group of protesters supporting a Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike have been arrested after they breached prison grounds, the Metropolitan police has said.

The force said on Saturday evening that it had detained a group of protesters outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, in west London, and was in the process of making a number of arrests.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ Huidige temperatuur (...

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️

Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 1.0°C (Bewolkt)
Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 98°

Luchtkwaliteit:
  • AQI: 69 🟡 (Matig)
  • PM2.5: 28.2 μg/m³
  • PM10: 35.9 μg/m³

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

  • zondag 25 januari: Min 0.1°, Max 4.1° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 90°
  • maandag 26 januari: Min 0.6°, Max 3.8° (Lichte sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 0.1, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↓ N/D°
  • dinsdag 27 januari: Min 1.1°, Max 4.2° (Lichte sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 5.1, Kans op neerslag 36%, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 119°
  • woensdag 28 januari: Min 2.7°, Max 6.4° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7, Kans op neerslag 15%, Windsnelheid: 9.9 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 62°
  • donderdag 29 januari: Min 1.5°, Max 5.5° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.1, Kans op neerslag 16%, Windsnelheid: 8.7 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ← 103°
  • vrijdag 30 januari: Min 1.7°, Max 6.2° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.5, Kans op neerslag 36%, Windsnelheid: 12.7 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 113°
  • zaterdag 31 januari: Min 6.0°, Max 8.2° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 5.6, Kans op neerslag 32%, Windsnelheid: 13.8 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 168°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

  • 02:00: 0.9° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ← 111°
  • 03:00: 0.9° (Helder) 🌕, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 103°
  • 04:00: 0.7° (Helder) 🌕, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ← 110°
  • 05:00: 0.4° (Helder) 🌕, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ← 104°
  • 06:00: 0.2° (Helder) 🌕, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ← 101°
  • 07:00: 0.2° (Helder) 🌕, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ← 99°
  • 08:00: 0.1° (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ← 101°
  • 09:00: 0.1° (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ← 97°
  • 10:00: 0.4° (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 98°
  • 11:00: 1.2° (Zonnig) ☀️, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ← 102°
  • 12:00: 2.3° (Zonnig) ☀️, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 103°
  • 13:00: 3.5° (Zonnig) ☀️, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ← 101°
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