Month: August 2024
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Many companies are being forced to hire unqualified staff due to budget cuts
Companies are struggling to attract the right talent amid budget shortages, which is putting pressure on existing workers.
A significant number of US employers are resorting to hiring underqualified staff as they struggle with tightening budgets, new research has claimed.
The poll by Robert Walters found nearly three-quarters (71%) of employers have hired candidates lacking the full qualifications or experience ideally required, owing to financial limitations.
Furthermore, around half (48%) considered budget constraints to be the number one challenge when it comes to recruiting the right talent.
Tight budgets forcing tough choices
US recruiters also noted a lack of qualified candidates (37%) and stiff competition from rival companies (12%) as concerns for hiring the right talent, however continuing budget shortfalls leave many businesses unable to attract the right workers in the first place – an alarming seven in 10 employers acknowledge that their compensation packages fail to attract top talent.
Consequentially, four in five workers are under increased stress levels due to the influx of underqualified hires, with a similar number of employers understanding that hiring better-qualified candidates would alleviate the burnout experienced by current staff.
The study uncovered a deceptive tactic used by employers in order to attract certain workers whereby a salary offer is artificially inflated before being reduced at the final interview stage, however with 81% of candidates willing to walk away at this stage, Robert Walters believes that this could only serve to cause reputational damage.
“Allocating budget towards hiring well-qualified talent from the outset could be a more strategic investment, potentially saving time and improving overall performance,” noted Sean Puddle, Managing Director of Robert Walters New York.
“This not only affects the overall performance and growth potential of the business but also places undue stress on existing employees.”
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Starlink has a pricey new plan to stop scalpers
There’s now another reason to buy a Starlink kit from an authorized reseller. | Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge
In an effort to stop resellers from buying dishes in one region — where the hardware is cheaper — and selling them in another, Starlink is imposing a new “outside region fee” for its satellite internet kits activated “outside of the region they were originally sold in.”
Starlink has designated these six specific regions as the US and Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. The company only says “it is possible” the fee will be applied to activations — not a guarantee — but it’s steep enough to be a discouragement.
For the Standard and Standard Actuated kits, the fee is $200, but for the Starlink Mini, it’s $300. That’s in US currency, but Starlink also warns the fee “may be applied in USD or local currency,” which could make it even more expensive based on the currency exchange. The company has shared a breakdown of which countries will be charged the fee in US or local currencies.
To avoid the fee, Starlink recommends purchasing the dishes either directly from the company or an “authorized retailer within your region.”
There’s now another reason to buy a Starlink kit from an authorized reseller. | Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge
In an effort to stop resellers from buying dishes in one region — where the hardware is cheaper — and selling them in another, Starlink is imposing a new “outside region fee” for its satellite internet kits activated “outside of the region they were originally sold in.”
Starlink has designated these six specific regions as the US and Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. The company only says “it is possible” the fee will be applied to activations — not a guarantee — but it’s steep enough to be a discouragement.
For the Standard and Standard Actuated kits, the fee is $200, but for the Starlink Mini, it’s $300. That’s in US currency, but Starlink also warns the fee “may be applied in USD or local currency,” which could make it even more expensive based on the currency exchange. The company has shared a breakdown of which countries will be charged the fee in US or local currencies.
To avoid the fee, Starlink recommends purchasing the dishes either directly from the company or an “authorized retailer within your region.”
Microsoft just blocked a commonly-used trick to install Windows 11 on a PC that doesn’t meet the system requirements
A sneaky installation method appears to have been banished – but this may not come into effect until next year.
Windows 11 can be installed on PCs that don’t meet the hardware requirements of the OS by using a few different workarounds, but one of those fudges no longer works – or at least Microsoft appears to have closed this loophole in testing.
The Register reports that as highlighted by Bob Pony on X, the bypass that Microsoft apparently intends to block, known as the ‘setup.exe /product server’ workaround, has indeed been vanquished in preview build 27686 in the Canary channel (released a week ago).
The recently released Windows 11 Insider Build 27686 (Dilithium) has patched the “setup.exe /product server” workaround for bypassing the system requirements check. 😢 pic.twitter.com/G9Q1v3O1uUAugust 15, 2024
What this particular requirement-dodging measure does is to trick the installer into thinking it is setting up Windows Server, when it is in fact installing Windows 11. As Windows Server doesn’t have the same stricter requirements – for example, you don’t need TPM 2.0 – this sneaky installation method will work on a PC that doesn’t officially qualify for Windows 11.
Whether it will run properly on such a PC is entirely another matter, and that’s why we wouldn’t recommend using a trick along these lines.
That said, people do use this, and other fudges, to install Windows 11 on hardware that is older and not officially compatible, and they manage to run it okay – but it’s a risk, obviously.
Analysis: A bug, maybe? It seems unlikely…
As The Register points out, it is possible that this is just a bug in the Windows 11 preview build. After all, this is the Canary channel, the earliest testing platform which is more bug-ridden than other builds.
However, it’s more probable that this is an intentional move by Microsoft, we’d guess. That being the case, folks do still have time to use the above fudge to install Windows 11, because as Bob Pony makes clear, it still works fine with Windows 11 24H2 (the incoming update expected to land later in the year). This is seemingly a change for Windows 11 in 2025 – but we don’t know for sure, and Microsoft could still be planning on incorporating it in the 24H2 update (it just isn’t in the mix yet).
Another well-known workaround to fudge an installation of Windows 11 on an unsupported PC is to use the utility Rufus. So, there are still options out there, although Microsoft is seemingly looking to close these kind of tricks down – perhaps due to the fact that Windows 10 comes to its End of Life next year.
Whatever the case, we should underline that we wouldn’t recommend installing any operating system on a device that doesn’t officially support it – at least not for the average user out there, anyway.
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