Rubén Andrés

Rubén Andrés

Writer . At Xataka On since

Writer at Xataka. More than a decade of telecommuting and a strong advocate of technology as a way to improve our lives. Full-time addict of black, sugar-free coffee. LinkedIn

102 published news

December 2024

  1. 21 December
  2. Some Companies Are Operating With No Job Titles or Bosses. The Result: Higher Profits and Increased Employee Satisfaction
  3. 19 December
  4. Amazon Delays Employees Return to the Office Due to an Unexpected Problem: It Doesn’t Have Enough Room to Accommodate Them
  5. 18 December
  6. 400 Years Ago, a Dutch Company Issued a Bond to Settle a Debt. The Bond’s Owner Is Still Collecting Interest Today
  7. 14 December
  8. This Is How Warren Buffett Turned Christmas Into an Investment Masterclass for His Family
  9. 12 December
  10. This Tesla Cybertruck is Coated in $60,000 of 24-Karat Gold. Someone Paid a Measly $102,000 for It at a Charity Auction
  11. 10 December
  12. Billionaires Have Doubled Their Wealth in the Past Decade: That’s $14 Trillion in the Hands of Just 2,700 People
  13. 04 December
  14. The Latest Status Symbol Isn’t a Car or a Handbag: It’s a Chocolate and Pistachio Bar That’s Gone Viral
  15. 01 December
  16. A Swiss City Collected So Much Tax Revenue That It Didn’t Know What to Do With It. So, It’s Decided to Return About $2,800 per Person

November 2024

  1. 29 November
  2. Larry Page Once Considered Giving Elon Musk His Fortune to Colonize Mars. Now, They Don’t Even Talk to Each Other
  3. 25 November
  4. Until Recently, People Were Very Proud of How Little They Slept. Now, They’re at Risk for Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
  5. 13 November
  6. Boreout, Explained: Why Being Bored at Work Is Just as Concerning as Being Burned Out
  7. Musk Is Already Experiencing the Benefits of Supporting Trump: He’s Been Picked to Lead the New Efficiency Department
  8. 12 November
  9. Mark Zuckerberg Would Need 550 Years to Spend His Entire Fortune if He Spent $1 Million Each Month
  10. Trump’s Victory May Prompt an American Exodus: Many Citizens Are Seeking ‘Golden Visas’ in Europe and the Caribbean
  11. 10 November
  12. Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome: When Concentration Becomes Challenging and Daydreaming Impacts Daily Life
  13. 07 November
  14. Amazon’s CEO Denies That the Company’s Return-to-Office Policy Is a ‘Backdoor Layoff’
  15. 05 November
  16. Iceland Was the Canary in the Coal Mine When It Adopted the Four-Day Week. Now, Its Economy Is Thriving
  17. 04 November
  18. Elon Musk Issues Warning About the Magnitude of the U.S. Debt, Highlighting the Rise of Bitcoin and Gold
  19. 03 November
  20. How Much Money Does Elon Musk Have? A Look at the Fortune of the Man Planning to Colonize Mars From a Social Media Platform
  21. 01 November
  22. This Is How Louis Vuitton Makes Money: From Unaffordable Luxury to Mass Luxury

October 2024

  1. 30 October
  2. Elon Musk and Bill Gates Made Their Bets for President. Jeff Bezos Decided to Stay Neutral and Created a Crisis at The Washington Post
  3. 29 October
  4. EY Has a Strict Policy Against Multitasking: It Fired Multiple Employees for Enrolling in Two Online Courses at the Same Time
  5. 28 October
  6. The Rivalry Between Elon Musk and Bill Gates Has Escalated to a New Level: They’re Now Political Adversaries, Too
  7. 25 October
  8. Germany Has Tested the Four-Day Workweek, and the Verdict Is Clear: 73% of Companies in the Pilot Won’t Return to the Five-Day Routine
  9. 23 October
  10. Elon Musk Said, ‘Yes, DOGE,’ at a Rally Next to Donald Trump. Even Though He Wasn’t Referring to Dogecoin, Its Price Shot Up 15%
  11. 22 October
  12. A Retiree Purchased a Lifetime Plane Ticket for $290,000. He’s Flown Around the World 1,000 Times, Writing Off the Cost With Each Flight
  13. 15 October
  14. Spotify Declines to Force Employees to Go Back to the Office. You Can’t Treat Them Like Children, Execs Say
  15. 14 October
  16. A Group of Millionaires Didn’t Like the Ideology at Some Universities, so They Created an ‘Anti-Woke’ University
  17. 13 October
  18. Hurricane Milton Highlights a Major Issue Once More: Beachfront Homes Are Losing Value Due to Climate Change
  19. 08 October
  20. Porsche Didn’t Have a Minivan in Its Lineup, So Mark Zuckerberg Decided to Create One Himself
  21. While Aiming to Resume X Operations in Brazil, Elon Musk Made a Serious Mistake: He Chose the Wrong Bank
  22. 07 October
  23. Bernard Arnault Was the Richest Man in the World Until He Started Losing Money. He’s Already Lost Over $52 Billion
  24. 04 October
  25. Tentative Agreement Halts Massive Strike at U.S. Ports, Calming Fears of Global Logistics Crisis
  26. 03 October
  27. After the Logistics Crisis, the Global Economy Is Facing Another Threat: A Massive Strike in U.S. Ports
  28. 02 October
  29. Steve Jobs Used to Hold Meetings While Walking Around the Apple Campus. Scientists Say He Was on to Something
  30. 01 October
  31. In Germany, Tesla Workers on Medical Leave Are Getting an Unexpected Visit From Their Bosses. You Can Imagine Why
  32. Researchers Find That Remote Workers Get Paid 7% Less Than Those Who Work From the Office

September 2024

  1. 28 September
  2. This Is Sam Altman’s Method for Generating Ideas: Jot Them Down, Rip the Pages Out, and Discard Them Until You Find the One
  3. 27 September
  4. Silicon Valley Millionaires Made ‘Dressing Boring’ a Symbol of Power. Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Change That
  5. New Survey Finds That 91% of Employees Are Unhappy With Amazon’s Total Return-to-Office Policy
  6. 24 September
  7. Rolex Is Tired of Thefts and Fake Watches. It Wants to Use NFT Chips and Blockchain Certificates of Authenticity to Stop Them
  8. 20 September
  9. How Much Do the Richest 1% on the Planet Earn? According to This Study, It’s Always Going to Be More Than You Think
  10. 19 September
  11. Samsung Is Reportedly Considering Laying Off Between 15% and 30% of Its International Workforce
  12. ‘It Comes Down to Economics’: A Former Amazon Employee Shares His Thoughts on the End of Remote Work at Amazon
  13. 17 September
  14. He’s a Millionaire That Doesn’t Own a Home: Timothy Armoo Is an Example of How Generation Z Is Changing Everything
  15. 13 September
  16. After Getting Banned in Brazil, Elon Musk Calls Australian Government ‘Fascists’ for Its Legislation Against Fake News
  17. Gen Z’s ‘Kryptonite’ Has Been Revealed: They’re Social Media Experts but Don’t Know How to Use a Printer
  18. 11 September
  19. Elon Musk Sent an Intimidating Email to All Twitter Employees. X Will Now Pay $600,000 to a Worker That Didn’t Resign
  20. 06 September
  21. Japan Had to End Its Overwork Model. The Four-Day Workweek Was Its Hope, but It’s Failing

August 2024

  1. 30 August
  2. This Is What It Takes to Become a Millionaire by Working for Nvidia: 7-Day Workweeks and Clocking Out at 1 a.m.
  3. 28 August
  4. Airbnb’s CEO Believed the Company Was ‘Broken’ and Wanted to Lower Prices: The Business Is Too Big for That
  5. 26 August
  6. Jeff Bezos Bought a New Private Jet and Has Flown on It 28 Times, Generating as Much Pollution as One Person Over 17 Years

July 2024

  1. 15 July
  2. ‘We’ve Reached the Point of Maximum Human Inefficiency’: Microsoft Measured How Much Time We Spend in Meetings and the Result Is Astounding
  3. 14 July
  4. You Aren’t Rich or Powerful Enough if You Aren’t Invited to the ‘Summer Camp for Billionaires’ Every Year
  5. 13 July
  6. Who Cares About Layoffs and Sabotage? All Management in Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory Cares About Are Missing Coffee Mugs
  7. 11 July
  8. 6,500 Samsung Employees in South Korea Go on an Indefinite Strike for the Second Time in Two Months
  9. Elon Musk Has Vowed to ‘Obliterate’ Bill Gates if He Doesn’t Stop Shorting Tesla Shares
  10. 09 July
  11. An Expert Predicted the Arrival of the iPhone Years in Advance. Now, He’s Betting on AI: ‘It’ll Bring Back the Dead’
  12. Apple Sent Out a 7 a.m. Email Asking About Remote Work. Its Employees Didn’t Like It
  13. 08 July
  14. These Are a Self-Taught Programmer’s Tips for Learning Quickly: Avoid Using Google and Don't Watch YouTube Tutorials
  15. 06 July
  16. Finns Are Some of the Happiest Employees in the World. Here’s One Company’s Recipe for Success
  17. 05 July
  18. Jeff Bezos Is Selling His Amazon Stock for $4.93 Billion After Company Shares Hit Record Highs
  19. ‘The Zuck We Deserve.’ Mark Zuckerberg’s Fourth of July Celebration Shows He’s Living His Best Life
  20. 04 July
  21. The Results of Portugal’s Four-Day Workweek Make One Thing Clear: Not All Companies Can Handle It

June 2024

  1. 30 June
  2. ‘Interviews Are a Performance Art... You Have to Rehearse': A LinkedIn Expert’s Advice for Successful Interviews
  3. 29 June
  4. ‘It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It.’ This Is Emotional Intelligence Technique Steve Jobs Used When No One Was Talking About It
  5. 27 June
  6. Gen Z Has Its Own Punctuality Etiquette, and It Says That 10 Minutes Late to Work Isn’t Late
  7. 26 June
  8. Bill Gates Takes Notes by Hand in All His Meetings and in the Margins of the Books He Reads. The Reason Is Backed by Science
  9. 24 June
  10. Productivity Has Been Growing Faster in the U.S. Than in Europe for 20 Years. It's a Story of Two Parallel Realities With Many Nuances
  11. 22 June
  12. So Far, AI Isn’t Stealing Jobs From Humans, But Its Development Is Causing a Lot of Layoffs
  13. France Discovered a Man’s Swimming Pool Using a Satellite. Then, As Many Countries Do, It Taxed Him
  14. Dell Asked Employees to Return to the Office or Accept the Consequences. 50% Will Accept the Consequences
  15. 20 June
  16. One of the Founders Behind the Titan, the Submersible That Sank While Searching for the Titanic, Is Back With a New Submarine
  17. 18 June
  18. A Study Finds That Helping Your Coworkers Is Counterproductive, Unless They Specifically Ask
  19. 17 June
  20. This Company Fired an Employee but Forgot to Remove His Access Credentials. It Cost Them $678,000 in Virtual Servers
  21. 14 June
  22. A 92-Year-Old Millionaire Remains at the Helm of Her Company and Refuses to Retire. Her Secret? Being a David Among Goliaths
  23. 12 June
  24. 'I Have 3 Years Left of Work': More AI Managers Believe AI Will Eventually Take Their Jobs
  25. 07 June
  26. Elon Musk Is Increasing Pressure on Tesla Shareholders: Either They Give Him the $46 Billion Pay Package or He Leaves
  27. 06 June
  28. Gen Z Has an Ace Up Their Sleeve to Make Space for Themselves in the Workforce: Their Parents
  29. 04 June
  30. Dubai Spent $12 Billion to Build 300 Artificial Islands for Millionaires. Now, They’re Abandoned and Sinking
  31. Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers in Its Azure and HoloLens Divisions, the Latest Casualty of its Alliance With OpenAI

May 2024

  1. 30 May
  2. ‘Silent Vacations’: 40% of Millennials and Gen Z Have Used Remote Work to Take a Break Without Permission
  3. 28,000 Samsung Employees in South Korea Are Preparing to Strike for the First Time in the Company's History
  4. 29 May
  5. An Error in a Quantum Physics Calculation Led Jeff Bezos to Found Amazon. That Wouldn’t Have Happened to Bill Gates
  6. 28 May
  7. Jeff Bezos Is a Master of Productivity Because of This Secret: Starting Off Slow in the Morning
  8. In the 19th Century, a U.S. Millionaire Invaded Countries and Founded Two Republics on His Own
  9. 26 May
  10. The Luxury Bunker for Billionaires Has 15 Stories and Costs $1.5 Million Per Room
  11. 23 May
  12. Amazon Had to Meet Its Internal Employee Turnover Goals, So It Hired People to Fire Them
  13. 22 May
  14. If You Thought Neom's 105-Mile-Long Building Wasn’t Dystopian Enough, It's Also Building a Huge Water Park in the Desert
  15. The Digital Nomad Paradox: What Happens When the Country That Give You a Visa Wants You to Stop Being a Nomad
  16. 20 May
  17. “They Deserve It”: Emirates Is Making So Much Money That It’s Giving Workers a Five-Month-Salary as a Gift
  18. Jeff Bezos Has Spent a Small Fortune on His Art Collection. The Reason Isn't a Love of Art, But Rather a Love of Money
  19. 19 May
  20. Someone Thought of Turning Disneyland Into a Remote Office. Now It’s One of Gen Z’s Favorite Places to Work
  21. When Notifications Are Fighting to Get Your Attention, Use 'Monk Mode' to Avoid Distractions
  22. 18 May
  23. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: Why Your Brain Will Get Back at You If You Don't Let It Rest During the Day
  24. 17 May
  25. Three Learning Experts Explain Their Study Techniques: The Secret Isn't Studying More, But Studying Better
  26. 15 May
  27. Elon Musk Is Reportedly Rehiring Tesla's Supercharger Team After Firing Them All Two Weeks Ago
  28. 13 May
  29. Titanic-Obsessed Billionaire Wants to Build Replica With One Key Difference: Iceberg Detection Systems
  30. 11 May
  31. Dell Is Sorting Its Workers Into Two Groups: Those Who Go to the Office and the 'Red Flags'
  32. 07 May
  33. Samsung Rejects Global Push to 4-Day Work Week, Will Force Its Execs to Work 6 Days
  34. How Two Men Are 'Hacking' Their Way to Eternal Youth
  35. 05 May
  36. Germany’s Space Agency Is Paying People $19,000 to Lie in Bed for 60 Days in the Name of Science
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