Investments and Business

Any good diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy starts with employees. After all, they are the people who work in your organization and will be affected by your DEI efforts. So, to gain insights to help make your DEI work, it's worth running a DEI survey to understand the current state of DEI in the workplace, gather employee sentiment, and make data-driven decisions about your sourcing strategy. DEI. That is how. What is a DEI survey? A DEI survey collects information and views related to diversity, equity, and inclusion within an organization. The survey collects data on employee demographics, including…

The National Social Security Administration will inform that the young holders of the Progresar Scholarships can know their date and place of collection in a simple way, on the website of the organization. At the end of April, the Ministers of Education, Jaime Perczykand of Economy, sergio masaannounced a 42% increase of the Progresar scholarships, after agreeing with the World Bank a disbursement of 300 million dollars. that raised to 12,780 pesos the amount received by 1,700,000 young people. This initiative has the aim accompany during the school year and will reach school, tertiary or university students by granting a…

The economic management of Alberto Fernandez it leaks on many sides and he himself admits that the situation is very difficult. But it has a measure: the legacy of the previous government (especially in two aspects: the debt contracted with the IMF and the 54% inflation that occurred in 2019), the pandemic (which expanded spending) and the war in Ukraine, with the consequence of the international economic balance. Except for the last point, which is still debatable to what extent it brought harm or comprehensive economic benefit to the country, these are elements to be considered in a global evaluation.…

Although 25% of Argentine companies say they implement plans for gender equality, within their teams, only 2.6% have a budget allocated for it. "Gender equality is not a good in itself," it says in its report on employment equality policies of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which includes guidelines for States in the implementation of these policies. As he affirms, “gender inequality can be a significant drag on economic growth”, since “the countries with the highest levels of inequality tend to be those with the lowest levels of income per capita”. In Argentina, according to the latest Survey of Labor…

What is your relationship with money? Money is an integral part of our life. Although we would like to think that we can live without it, most of us consider its presence in our lives so essential. Money is energy so abundant that it is impossible to run out, and our beliefs about money, whether positive or negative, have a much greater influence on our prosperity than we would like to believe. As energy, money flows like water. Most people block pathways for water to reach us and blindly believe that the steady flow of our monthly paycheck is all…

The announcement of the implementation of Fair Neighborhood Prices comes with shortages, since basic products such as sugar are not contemplated and others such as fresh milk will not be available in the interior of the country. Depending on the province in question, access to the more than one hundred products announced by the Government will be limited or available at a higher price in the interior. With the aim of promoting consumption in nearby businesses and lowering inflation, which private consultants forecast could have exceeded 9% in May, the Ministry of Commerce extended the Fair Prices program to local…

The president of the Industrial Union of Córdoba (UIC), Luis Macario, warned this Friday that this productive sector is reaching "a terminal situation" due to the lack of dollars. "There is a constant change in the rules of the game," Macario said in statements to El Doce. “Payments for capital goods are made in 365 days. That does not exist commercially," said the head of the local industrial entity. Yesterday the Central Bank issued a resolution that obliges the provinces to pay debt with their own dollars. Once the new restriction for access to the dollar market was known, the…

behind the 8.4% April, and while waiting for the publication of the Consumer Price Index by INDEC, different consultancies assure that inflation in May would not drop from the previous record and would even exceed 9%. Meanwhile, sources from the Palacio de Hacienda highlighted the decision to intervene in the markets to avoid a devaluation during the run in the last week of April, which could have caused a jump "uncontrolled" in the remarks. The survey of retail prices of the C&T consultancy for the GBA region presented a monthly rise 8.7%, surpassing the variation of April and May of…

You see a need or problem in the business and have a great plan to solve it. Your initiative requires additional investment (for example, you need to add staff, buy a new software tool, etc.). Present your brilliant initiative to the CFO for his monetary blessing... it's a no. Your CFO doesn't give budget approval and your idea is dead in the water. Sounds familiar? A common obstacle for HR teams trying to get new initiatives off the ground is a lack of resources. To overcome this and "get yes," HR leaders need to learn how to talk to their…