We fietsten door de Achterhoek, een onderschat gebied. De fietspaden waren niet allemaal verhard, het aantal mede-toeristen viel mee.
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Een paar dagen na de instroom van bijna zestigduizend migranten lijkt de rust teruggekeerd in de Spaanse exclave Ceuta. Het Spaanse leger en de politie doen er alles aan om de migranten die nog over zijn ook richting de grens te bewegen. „Als we niet meewerken, zullen ze ons met geweld verdrijven en honden inzetten.”
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Tropen-Europa stond in brand, de volgende hittegolf kwam eraan en ik deed wat de gemiddelde stadswesterling doet: doomscrollen door nieuwsberichten en zich kapot ergeren.
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Greek police say 26-year-old foreigner is believed to have left Elisabeth-Jane Ross’s body in derelict building
A man has been arrested after the death of a Scottish woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in Athens.
The 26-year-old man, who Greek police said was a foreigner, was arrested after the death of Elisabeth-Jane Ross. The 38-year-old’s body was discovered inside a suitcase by a homeless man in a derelict building in the Kypseli area of Athens on 18 July.
Continue reading...Labour chair accuses Reform of making ‘grubby pacts’ after contradictory reports emerge on timeline of events
Reform UK is operating under a “stench of sleaze”, Labour has said, after reports that Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as leader of Reform months before the general election.
Farage was in discussions about a return to the political frontline from as early as March 2024, despite later claiming he had no intention of returning to politics until June 2024, the Sunday Times reported.
Continue reading...High winds spread flames through Attica while blazes stabilise in France and Spain but risk of flare-ups remains high
Europe’s wildfire crisis fractured along starkly different fronts on Sunday: gale-force winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris against renewed spread, and Spain’s major fires finally stopped advancing.
The centre of immediate danger was Greece. Gale-force winds drove flames deeper into western Attica, the administrative region that includes the capital, threatening villages and an industrial district outside the city of Megara as violent gusts prevented firefighting aircraft from collecting water from the sea.
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The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts:
A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs. A full 46% admit to the practice of coffee-badging. Thirty-six percent have applied for a new job while sitting at their current office desk. Thirty-six percent have started a side hustle since the mandate was announced, in anticipation of being let go or quitting. Those numbers do not prove that employees reject collaboration. They show that many employees no longer trust the official story...
The central mistake in many in-office mandates is the assumption that proximity automatically produces commitment. It does not. A worker who spends two hours commuting to sit on video calls with colleagues in other cities is not experiencing culture. That worker is experiencing theater. When executives describe the office as a cure-all, many employees experience lost time, higher costs and lower autonomy. The policy's defining feature becomes its credibility gap. Research keeps undercutting the belief that more office time automatically means better performance. A University of Pittsburgh analysis of S&P 500 firms found that return-to-office mandates reduced employee satisfaction without improving firm performance or firm value....
Baylor University's reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile... Attendance can be mandated, but commitment cannot. When leaders confuse the two, they do not rebuild workplace culture. They create a room full of people planning their exit.
A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs. A full 46% admit to the practice of coffee-badging. Thirty-six percent have applied for a new job while sitting at their current office desk. Thirty-six percent have started a side hustle since the mandate was announced, in anticipation of being let go or quitting. Those numbers do not prove that employees reject collaboration. They show that many employees no longer trust the official story...
The central mistake in many in-office mandates is the assumption that proximity automatically produces commitment. It does not. A worker who spends two hours commuting to sit on video calls with colleagues in other cities is not experiencing culture. That worker is experiencing theater. When executives describe the office as a cure-all, many employees experience lost time, higher costs and lower autonomy. The policy's defining feature becomes its credibility gap. Research keeps undercutting the belief that more office time automatically means better performance. A University of Pittsburgh analysis of S&P 500 firms found that return-to-office mandates reduced employee satisfaction without improving firm performance or firm value....
Baylor University's reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile... Attendance can be mandated, but commitment cannot. When leaders confuse the two, they do not rebuild workplace culture. They create a room full of people planning their exit.
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Lakila Aperitivo, Delft. Een van de leukste plekken om eind van de middag iets te drinken en eten.
Na een tijdje uit de game te zijn geweest, is Jeremy weer helemaal out there. Of nou ja, een soort van. Hij heeft accounts op meerdere datingapps maar gaat nooit op date: hij speelt impossible to get.
‘’Hard to get spelen is echt iets van vorig jaar, toen deed iedereen casual enzo. Nu hoef ik helemaal niet te daten.‘’ Hij swiped een paar keer heen en weer op Bumble. Heel soms chat hij wat, af en toe spreekt hij een date af, maar gaat nooit. ‘’Je moet ze iets geven om te willen, snap je. En zij komen wel, dus ze willen me.‘’
Als dates echt hardnekkig met Jeremy in contact willen komen, gaat hij all out: “ik verander mijn telefoonnummer, verwijder mijn social media-profielen, ga naar de kapper, verander mijn hele outfit.” En als het écht nodig is, verhuist hij gewoon. “Naar de Algarve, het onbekende gedeelte, en dan ook langs de plastische chirurg zodat ze me niet meer herkennen.”
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