A boost for Tesla: the American car rental company Hertz has placed a mega order for the delivery of 100,000 electric cars. How much the car rental company pays for the Teslas has not been disclosed. The AP news agency thinks the deal is worth more than $4 billion, with each Model 3 worth about…
Absenteeism due to illness is increasing, Arbodienst concludes. The average absenteeism rate among employees rose to 4.2 percent in September, from 3.9 percent in August. This mainly concerns an increase in respiratory complaints. There is usually a flu wave every year, but due to all the corona measures such as keeping a distance and working…
ING will compensate customers who have paid too much variable interest on their revolving credit. Rabobank (for more than 200,000 customers) and ABN Amro (for 150,000 customers) previously announced a compensation scheme. ING indicates that the compensation applies to about 10 percent of their contracts. The bank does not want to say how many customers…
Chinese real estate group Evergrande has paid off a arrears of interest of about 71.7 million euros just in time, Chinese state media report. As a result, Evergrande is not officially labeled a defaulter and the company does not have to be declared bankrupt. The real estate group is still struggling with a sky-high debt….
The Brabant company Ebusco, manufacturer of electric buses, has raised around 300 million euros with its IPO. The company, which currently earns the most money in the Benelux, wants to use this capital for international growth. The shares were popular with investor subscriptions “strongly oversubscribed,” reports Ebusco. Nearly a quarter of the company, 22.5 percent…
Imagine: you wake up, you have breakfast and you get dressed. Instead of going to the office or crawling behind your computer, you put on a headset. It takes you to another, virtual world. Where you not only work, but also meet friends, shop and go to the movies. So would the metaverse eventually look…
The Rent Assessment Committee has been struggling with major backlogs for years and since last year the Committee has therefore been inviting less and less tenants and landlords to appear for their disputes at a hearing. Vulnerable tenants will be the victims of this, warn individual members of the Rent Assessment Committee. This is evident…
Immediately after the election, when Donald Trump made his first claims of electoral fraud, an employee posted on Workplace on November 5, 2020 about a popular comment under a news story with a link that led to fake news. “Not only are we not doing anything about potentially incendiary misinformation about the election in comments,…
Now the situation is reversed. The global economy has picked up quickly and demand for energy has skyrocketed. A cold spring also meant that stocks were not replenished. Van der Linde: “Last year the demand fell by 5 percent and now it is rising by 5 percent. The energy system is not so flexible that…
“There are two major problems,” says Wiemers. “If a MP switches to a trade association or lobby organization, they have more knowledge and access to power than others. This can lead to an unbalanced lobby. And vice versa, politicians can be influenced during their political career by what they want to do next. They can…